{"id":338229,"date":"2026-09-04T17:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T17:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/338229\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T17:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T17:48:10","slug":"beloved-middle-eastern-restaurant-closes-after-10-years-on-staten-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/338229\/","title":{"rendered":"Beloved Middle Eastern Restaurant Closes After 10 Years On Staten Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sumac, a longtime Middle Eastern restaurant on Forest Avenue in Westerleigh, has closed after 10 years serving Staten Islanders. Known for shawarma, falafel, vegetarian fare and warm hospitality, it became a neighborhood favorite. The restaurant took its name from the spice commonly used in Middle Eastern cuisine, and readers described the owners as &#8220;nice people.&#8221; Tacojees, a separate halal grill, is set to move into the former Sumac location.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sumac, a longtime Middle Eastern restaurant on Forest Avenue in Westerleigh, has closed after 10 years serving Staten&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[119828,9,24,63,134,136,135,21167,127047],"class_list":["post-338229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-middle-eastern","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-staten-islanders","tag-westerleigh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}