This Middle Eastern restaurant cares about community as much as good food

The dining room at Kubeh warmly invites you in with its blue tiling, lush tapestries, and hanging plants—homey and Mediterranean. Photo by Avery Palmer

At the core of Kubeh, a Middle Eastern restaurant in the West Village, is the celebration of community. It is cooked into the history of the restaurant’s namesake dish, which consists of beef or vegetable dumplings in a beet- or lemon-based broth.

Writes & Bites: Felix Roasting Co. and the first page pact

Writers must forge a sacred pact with the reader from the very first page: if they stay for the journey, they won’t regret the ride. Illustration by Clara Waldheim

Welcome to Writes & Bites — a series where Creative Writing MFA student Arianna Gundlach will periodically review a potential writing spot in New York City and tackle…