{"id":165366,"date":"2026-04-14T12:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T12:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/165366\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T12:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T12:30:07","slug":"authentic-syrian-kitchen-khir-damascus-coming-to-downtown-erie-food-hall-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/165366\/","title":{"rendered":"Authentic Syrian Kitchen Khir Damascus Coming to Downtown Erie Food Hall | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A taste of Syria is coming to downtown Erie, the Erie Downtown Development Corporation (EDDC) announced Tuesday in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Khir Damascus, a locally owned kitchen, is joining the Flagship City Food Hall and will bring authentic Syrian and Middle Eastern cuisine to the growing downtown destination.<\/p>\n<p>The menu will feature halal dishes and traditional recipes, including chicken and beef shawarma, falafel wraps, and Iskender kebab. Guests can also enjoy appetizers like hummus, baba ghanoush, stuffed grape leaves, and tabbouleh.<\/p>\n<p>EDDC says the addition of Khir Damascus adds to the diversity of cuisines offered at the food hall and supports its goal of creating a space where culture, community, and food come together.<\/p>\n<p>More details on hours and opening celebrations are expected in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A taste of Syria is coming to downtown Erie, the Erie Downtown Development Corporation (EDDC) announced Tuesday in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,74503,9952,27989,74501,74502,74500],"class_list":{"0":"post-165366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-erie","9":"tag-erie-headlines","10":"tag-erie-news","11":"tag-falafel","12":"tag-flagship-city-food-hall","13":"tag-halal","14":"tag-middle-eastern-cuisine","15":"tag-shawarma","16":"tag-syrian-food"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}