FOR CIRCUSCOMMUNITYAPPROVED HUMMUS

“The hummus is untouchable,” says actor and musician Brendan Daugherty of Queen, a “wildly popular” Mediterranean café on Starr Street that offers catering and began as a simple falafel window for hungry fire-breathers at the performance space House of Yes. The catering menu includes meze like charred beets and spiced carrots alongside baba ghannouj and za’atar-dusted labneh, plus sandwiches of chicken shawarma and roasted eggplant. It’s perfect for a group because, says Eva Evans, a video producer who has used Queen to cater shoots, “it’s easy to order for all dietary restrictions, and it travels well.” And according to House of Yes co-founder Kae Burke, “Queen has single-handedly fed the entire circusperformance community in Bushwick.”