Sido's Mediterranean

Sido’s (stylized SIDO’S, also branded Sido’s Cuisine / Sido’s Mediterranean Cuisine) is an owner-operated Mediterranean and Middle Eastern kitchen run by chef Abbas Abu Zareefuh, whose flagship stall operates on the second floor of the Parlor KC food hall in the Crossroads/Downtown East district. The name is the Arabic/Palestinian word for “grandfather,” honoring the owner’s father, who ran a restaurant in Jordan in 1959.¹²

Description

Sido’s serves authentic Mediterranean and Middle Eastern fare — shawarma, gyros, falafel, kebabs, hummus, and Mediterranean barbecue — from a stall on the second floor of the Parlor KC food hall at 1707 Locust Street.¹³ The kitchen’s stated focus is “simple, fresh, flavorful food made with passion and tradition,” and owner-chef Abbas Abu Zareefuh emphasizes scratch cooking — “Everything’s going to be from scratch,” with “nothing from the bottle.”²³ Frequently praised items include the falafel, chicken shawarma, gyros, lamb chops, and baklava.⁴

Ownership and history

Sido’s is owned and operated by chef Abbas Abu Zareefuh. The business is named after his father, who operated a restaurant in Jordan in 1959; “Sido” is the Palestinian/Arabic word for “grandfather.”² Abu Zareefuh inherited a love of cooking from his father and worked as a chef in Jordan and Dubai before immigrating to the United States.²

He launched Sido’s in the Kansas City area around 2022–2023 (a October 2024 report described the business as having operated “less than two years”), beginning with the Parlor KC food-hall stall and a shipping-container outpost in North Kansas City’s Iron District (1599 Iron St). A full-service dine-in location later opened in Overland Park at 10150 W. 119th St.² This Registry page covers the Parlor KC flagship stall at 1707 Locust Street.

Links

• Parlor KC vendor page: https://www.parlorkcmo.com/kitchen/sidos/
• Sido’s official site: https://www.sidoscuisine.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sidos_cuisine/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SIDOSCUISINEOFFICIAL/

Sources

Disputes

None on record.

Footnotes

1. Parlor KC — Sidos vendor page. https://www.parlorkcmo.com/kitchen/sidos/ — asserts: Sido’s is a current, active second-floor vendor at Parlor KC (1707 Locust St, Kansas City, MO 64108); Mediterranean cuisine; “simple, fresh, flavorful food made with passion and tradition”; active takeout/delivery ordering. ↩ ↩²

2. The Kansas City Star / Yahoo syndication — “Restaurant opening soon in Johnson County will serve Mediterranean BBQ, shawarma, more” (Oct. 2024). https://ca.style.yahoo.com/restaurant-opening-soon-johnson-county-194547879.html — asserts: owner Abbas Abu Zareefuh; named for his father’s 1959 restaurant in Jordan; “Sido” = grandfather; chef in Jordan and Dubai before U.S.; operating “less than two years” as of Oct. 2024; locations at Parlor KC (1707 Locust), Iron District (1599 Iron St), and new Overland Park (10150 W. 119th St); scratch cooking, Mediterranean BBQ, shawarma, gyros, kebabs, hummus. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵

3. Sido’s official ordering site. https://www.sidoscuisine.com/ — asserts: Sido’s Mediterranean Cuisine, Kansas City MO; takeout/delivery; menu of Mediterranean/Middle Eastern dishes. ↩ ↩²

4. Yelp — Sidos Cuisine, 1707 Locust St, Kansas City. https://www.yelp.com/biz/sidos-cuisine-kansas-city — asserts: customer reviews praising falafel, chicken shawarma, gyros, lamb chops, shish kebabs, baklava; Mediterranean restaurant at 1707 Locust St. ↩