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Zareen Khan

Chef · Owner / operator · Author — Pakistani and North Indian home cooking on the Peninsula, halal, at counter prices. She is also the South Bay operator other South Bay operators eat at, which is the rarer thing.

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Zareen Khan, from Karachi, left a six-year run as a tech product manager to open Zareen's in Mountain View in 2012 and in Palo Alto in 2014, later adding Redwood City. The restaurant has been listed in the MICHELIN Guide and she has co-written a cookbook with Umair Khan. She is on the record about the harassment and Islamophobia she has faced as a visibly Muslim restaurateur in Silicon Valley, reported by the Palo Alto Weekly.

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