Xi'an Famous Foods

Xi'an Famous Foods (Chinese: 西安名吃) is a chain of fast casual restaurants based in New York City that serves Shaanxi cuisine.

It has been featured in television shows such as the Cooking Channel’s Food(ography), Kelly Choi’s Eat Out NY, and Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations.

From that moment, Wang and his father continued expanding their food business to Manhattan and Brooklyn, opening eight more shops.

[2] In late 2005, the original Xi’an Famous Foods opened in the basement of the Golden Mall in Flushing, Queens.

In August 2009, two more shops opened, one in Flushing and one on East Broadway, but were both closed due to their limited space and facilities not conducive to the growing operations.

By end of 2016, Xi'an Famous Foods had opened six more shops in Manhattan, one in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and a sister restaurant called Biang!

Xi'an Famous Foods corporate office was established in Manhattan near the Empire State building and is in place to support the operations of the restaurants and its expansion.

Since Xi’an Famous Foods rapid expansion in New York, the Queens restaurant chain has been picked up by many media outlets.

[8] Following that mention, media outlets such as Business Insider and NBC Asian-American have picked up on Xi’an Famous Foods’ story.

Two trays of food purchased at the Xi'an Famous Foods location on Saint Marks Place. The tray on the left holds a plate of spicy cucumber salad (front) and a stewed pork burger (rear, wrapped in waxed paper ); the tray on the right holds a plate of lamb dumplings (front) and a plate of noodles with stewed oxtail (rear).
Storefront on Saint Marks Place