Shami Café

10/25/2026

Thank you so much PDX VEG for this awesome review!!!

10/21/2026

Parents, when was the last time you enjoyed a meal while actually finishing a conversation? 🤨 🧐 😳

Check out Parents’ Sunday Funday at Shami Café— a little something for the grownups, a whole lot of fun for the kiddos, and seriously delicious Syrian food for everyone.

Once a month, parents can relax, eat, drink, and catch up in our indoor dining area while kids ages 3+ enjoy supervised crafts and activities on our heated, secured outdoor patio.

They play. You exhale. Everyone eats well. ❤️

Come discover your new favorite neighborhood spot and give yourself a little Sunday reset.

➡️➡️➡️ Reserve your spot now at shamicafepdx.com/events

10/11/2026

***Hey Shami Friends & Supporters***

We need your help before October 22nd to help elect Tiffany Koyama Lane for Portland City Council!!! 🩷🩵💛

With PPS school closures unfolding, Wael and I have been feeling our baseline anger at the state of the world rise to a new level of rage and insistence on change.

With our kids’ DLI program targeted for transfer and three of our beloved neighborhood schools named in the proposals for closure, our family is gearing up for the ways in which we will be directly involved in this fight. We reluctantly look forward to fighting alongside each of you.✊🏼😡✊🏼

Right now, resistance from parents, educators, and community members is swelling from the ground-up.

Ordinary people are organizing not just in defense of schools, but to protect a host of other basic rights under threat in our communities. 🍎 🩺🇵🇸🌲🏳️‍⚧️🖕🏼🧊

We have a world to win, and we are going to need to build our power in order to do so. Our children, our teachers, our neighbors, our families are worth fighting for. 💪🏼🌎🏆

But if we want the chance to actually WIN, we need a simultaneous, coordinated, and powerful force of resistance from within local politics to amplify and reinforce our movement.

Electing progressive leaders is an opportunity to amplify the peoples’ demands into budgetary and legislative reality. 📣📣📣

And right when Portland needs them the most, may this be a reminder that we are SO DAMN LUCKY to have a group of local Democratic Socialist politicians already fighting the good fight.

We need to unite in an effort to ELECT candidates who will strengthen our ability to build a better world.

To do so, we encourage ALL OUR NEIGHBORS in District 3 to help re-elect Tiffany Koyama Lane (aka Teacher Tiffany) to Portland City Council. She is a candidate ‘For the People’ in the truest sense of the term.

VISIT THE LINK IN OUR BIO TO DONATE TODAY!!!!! 💸 💸 💸

10/05/2026

🎶 MUSIC NIGHT AT SHAMI 🎶

Join us Thursday, October 8th from 5:30–7:30 PM for an evening of great food and live music with Taylor Gaddi-Kenaston . ✨

Taylor is a singer and musician from Hillsboro, Oregon, who not only writes original music, but puts a folk + soul twist on classic and alternative hits.

Come hungry. Stay for the music. ❤️

📅 Thursday, October 8
⏰ 5:30–7:30 PM
🎟️ No cover
🪑 First come, first served seating

📍 Shami Cafe
5513 SE 72nd Ave, Portland

Tag someone you’d bring! 👇

09/30/2026

Some gems are hiding in plain sight. 💎🔍👀

Tucked away in Southeast Portland, Shami Café brings the flavors of Damascus to life... Rooted in Palestinian-Syrian traditions, a love for hospitality, and a whole lot of soul.

From creamy hummus and crispy falafel to juicy shawarma, perfectly grilled kabobs, rich and comforting fatteh, and sweet, delicate kanafeh — Come discover something delightfully different: fresh, vibrant, soulful food with flavors TO. DIE. FOR. ☠️ 🤌🏼

(And in case you were wondering, those mouthwatering dishes are all ours—and they taste every bit as good as they look. 😋✨)

Come for the food. Stay for the experience. ❤️

🎶 Live music nights
🔥 Covered & heated patio
🤝 Community events & gatherings
🌿 Vegan friendly and 100% Halal

Modern Bowl, Syrian Soul. 🇸🇾🇵🇸

📍 Shami Café • 5513 SE 72nd Ave • Portland, OR

09/25/2026

Shami’s regularly-scheduled staff are taking a well-deserved break, so guess who’s working the Front and Back of house tonight??!

THESE TWO!!!

Wael and Nico (aka the elder millennial dream team) will be workin the grill and the register tonight, Friday 9/25 so swing by to say hello, or deliver us some Advil for those aching backs and feet 🤪 👣 😮‍💨

Herrrrrre we go, baby!!!

09/11/2026

BUILD THE PORTLAND THAT WORKING PEOPLE DESERVE!

We need leaders ready to fight for working people — not billionaires and corporations.

Teacher Tiffany is one of those leaders.

Join Shami Café for a Fundraiser and Neighborhood Rally to re-elect Tiffany Koyama-Lane for Portland City Council District 3.

📅 Sunday, September 20
⏰ 4:30–6:30 PM
📍 Shami Café — 5513 SE 72nd Ave

Come meet Councilor Koyama Lane and her Tiffany Koyama Lane campaign team, talk with neighbors, grab a bite, and support a campaign fighting for:

🌱 Universal Preschool for All
💰 Tax the Rich to Fund Our Communities
🏫 Quality Public Schools, Housing & Infrastructure
🇵🇸 Cut Ties with Israel through the Gaza Pledge
🏳️‍🌈 Protect Immigrant & LGBTQIA+ Communities
🌳 Prioritize Parks, Community Programs & Community Protection

🍽️ Food & drinks available for purchase.

💵 Donations are optional — but strongly encouraged! Tiffany is building a people-powered campaign that relies on small-dollar donations from working people, not corporate lobbyists.

Come hungry. Come ready to organize. Come ready to build a Portland where working people have the power.

09/01/2026

Shami Café presents Michael & Clark of the Occidental Tourists: A night of Live Arabic, Turkish, Armenian, Persian, and Kurdish music

Join us for an evening of beautiful music from across the Middle East and beyond.

Shami Cafe is excited to welcome Michael & Clark of the Occidental Tourists for a live performance featuring Arabic, Turkish, Armenian, Persian, and Kurdish music.

📅 Thursday, September 10th
🕠 5:30–7:30 PM
📍 Shami Cafe: 5513 SE 72nd Ave, PDX

Come enjoy dinner, mezze, coffee, and the sounds of a region connected by centuries of shared musical traditions.

✨ No cover charge

✨ Seating is first come, first served

Bring your friends and family for a memorable evening of food, music, and community.

08/29/2026

Hey there fellow parents!!!

With the first week of school officially over, it’s only fair that parents get a little chance to relax and recover this weekend. Congrats! You made it 😉

We’ve got a Parent’s Sunday Funday event TOMORROW 8/30 at Shami Cafe.

Sunday Funday is a chance for grownups to eat, drink, socialize, and actually relax while the kids are having a great time. Parents hang out in the indoor dining area while kiddos (ages 3+) enjoy supervised facilitated crafts and activities on our heated outdoor patio—a secured, designated event area.

They play, you actually get to finish a conversation…it’s a win-win.

Slots at 4pm and 5:30 still available! Learn more and reserve your spot at

shamicafepdx.com/events

08/29/2026

Hello fellow Parents!!

With the first week of school officially over, it’s only fair that parents get a little chance to relax and recover this weekend. Congrats! You made it 😉

We’ve got a Parent’s Sunday Funday event TOMORROW 8/30 at Shami Cafe.

Sunday Funday is a chance for grownups to eat, drink, socialize, and actually relax while the kids are having a great time. Parents hang out in the indoor dining area while kiddos (ages 3+) enjoy supervised facilitated crafts and activities on our heated outdoor patio—a secured, designated event area.

They play, you actually get to finish a conversation…it’s a win-win.

Slots at 4pm and 5:30 still available! Reserve yours now 🙂

Eat, drink, and... actually finish a sentence! Sunday Funday events offer grown-ups a chance to dine and relax while kids enjoy engaging, volunteer-led craft time. An easy night out that leaves everyone happy!