As the Harouns wrote in a goodbye letter posted to Instagram, Syria was consumed by civil war at the time, which meant “our family couldn’t travel back and mamnoon became our new haven — peering into the past and future— that couldn’t wait to welcome you into.” The Haroun family gradually expanded into a restaurant group that included the South Lake Union rooftop spot Mbar, the Eastside restaurant Hanoon, and a place next to the Amazon Spheres that has run through several names and concepts but won praise last year from the Seattle Times for its mashup of Lebanese and Mexican cuisines. The goodbye announcement said that “Mamnoon’s end is the rule rather than the exception in our business in Seattle,” a reference to the difficult economic climate for restaurants at the moment.
Author: Harry Cheadle
Published at: 2025-08-25 22:30:53
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