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Article: Starters: Grape Leaves in Ridgewood
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- The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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- May 22, 2009
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ALFA GARCIA, STAFF WRITER
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
05-22-2009
Starters: Grape Leaves in Ridgewood
By ALFA GARCIA, STAFF WRITER
Date: 05-22-2009, Friday
Section: BETTER LIVING
Edtion: All Editions
Column: STARTERS
"There's some parts of Syria where you can knock on someone's door and stay for three days with no questions asked," says Mazen Alhusseini, who opened Grape Leaves Restaurant in Ridgewood last week. "The hospitality is really important or else [he pauses dramatically] it's shame forever."
For that reason, he and wife Dania Dary set out to share their culture while offering "reasonable prices and big portions" in an approachable atmosphere a plannot unlike that of the building's ...