Halal Foodstuff Is Coming To East Islip

EAST ISLIP, NY — A second Long Island location of Salah’s Halal Foodstuff is coming before long to East Islip. The quickly informal restaurant is opening at 103 W. Principal Street. The new eatery is just ready for a remaining inspection prior to operator Siraj Salahudeen can open up the doorways.

Salahudeen is a native of Sri Lanka who named his 1st Extensive Island halal store after his late father, Salah, who, alongside with his grandfather impressed him to enter the food and hospitality business. The family ran a catering firm in Sri Lanka, and the dying of Salahudeen’s father in Oct spurred him to honor him by naming his small business in his honor.

Looking at the lack of halal meals in the location and the pandemic meaning a lot less Lengthy Islanders were being trekking into New York Town for their halal resolve encouraged the opening of this 2nd area. Salahudeen, who life in Commack, was qualified in hospitality in Australia before opening an Italian halal restaurant in New York Town that has given that closed.

He tells Patch his background suggests that though Salah’s Halal Meals will be rapidly meals, it will be elevated and supply new preferences and be a little bit additional upscale.

The motorcycle enthusiast named sandwiches and menu things immediately after famed motorcycle varieties. The “Highway King” is a sandwich with halal beef, melted cheddar, sliced jalapeno and habanero and topped with a house-produced spicy sauce.

All the eatery’s sauces will be handmade, as nicely as bread and pastries produced in the Commack site.

“People like the flavor and quality” of halal meat, he tells Patch, and the attraction of the Muslim delicacies is widening.

The restaurant will also have gyro and rice dishes, and a vegetarian gyro choice.