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Signage at the Galleria in Downtown Fresno indicates a new restaurant, Zataar Euro Bistro, coming to the former George’s Shish Kebab space. Photo by Ashley Webster<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\tpublished on November 24, 2025 – 11:20 AM The scents of hummus and freshly-baked pita will once again fill the Galleria in Downtown Fresno with the announcement of a second location for a Lebanese restaurant that made its debut in 2024.<\/p>\n Signage for Zaatar Euro Bistro<\/a> appeared in the Galleria near the Fresno Convention Center last week. The location, formerly home to George\u2019s Shish Kebab, has been vacant since the longtime staple closed its doors in August<\/a>.<\/p>\n Zaatar Euro Bistro will take a more eastern spin, with brothers Badih \u201cBuddy\u201d Roy and Rabih \u201cRobby\u201d Nassar taking influence from their home in Lebanon, featuring Mediterranean omelets, baked goods, burgers and more.<\/p>\n Buddy said the restaurant offers a much wider selection of Mediterranean options not offered at many similar restaurants.<\/p>\n \u201cWhenever you say \u2018Mediterranean,\u2019 everywhere in America, your mind always goes to beef kebab, chicken kebab, shawarma, rice pilaf\u2026that\u2019s the traditional Mediterranean restaurant in Fresno,\u201d he said. \u201cBut when you go to Lebanon\u2026it\u2019s just a small part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n Zaatar Bistro, located at the corner of Champlain and Shepherd avenues in north Fresno, has over 80 unique items on the menu, ranging from traditional chicken wraps, hummus and salads, to more unique items, including burgers, fatteh and baked desserts.<\/p>\n The trio hopes to have the restaurant open by the end of the year. Zaatar will operate during lunch hours, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday.<\/p>\n \t\t\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Signage at the Galleria in Downtown Fresno indicates a new restaurant, Zataar Euro Bistro, coming to the former…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[17774,112,114,113,40392,40393,40394],"class_list":["post-68055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-downtown-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-galleria","tag-mediterannean-food","tag-zaatar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Written by Ben Hensley<\/a><\/p>\n