{"id":280056,"date":"2026-05-05T18:26:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T18:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/280056\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T18:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T18:26:15","slug":"island-grill-founder-faysal-haddad-to-pass-business-to-his-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/280056\/","title":{"rendered":"Island Grill founder Faysal Haddad to pass business to his children\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past 26 years, Island Grill has operated as a family-run restaurant serving Mediterranean-American flavors across Houston.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s new<\/p>\n<p>Founded by Faysal Haddad and his wife, Maria, Island Grill operates out of Rice Village, Tanglewood, Spring, Memorial and Downtown Houston.<\/p>\n<p>Haddad has run the restaurant with the help of his three children, Grace, Michael and Sophie, and announced his children will step into leadership roles, according to company representatives.<\/p>\n<p>What they offer<\/p>\n<p>Island Grill\u2019s menu features family recipes with Syrian influences, such as falafels and the Hanover plate, which includes grilled walnuts, saut\u00e9ed onions, tabbouleh, hummus and a meat of the customer\u2019s choice.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the restaurant offers smoothies, juices and various breakfast items, such as tacos, omelets and pancakes, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.islandgrillhouston.com\/menu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">online menu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the past 26 years, Island Grill has operated as a family-run restaurant serving Mediterranean-American flavors across Houston.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[321,1462,1604,103226,1743,56,58,57,103225,40211,8456,1454,31898,60009,1983],"class_list":["post-280056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-breakfast","tag-brunch","tag-community-impact","tag-family-run","tag-fast-casual","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-island-grill","tag-locally-owned","tag-mediterranean","tag-near-me","tag-pita","tag-syrian","tag-where-to-go"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}