Arslan’s & Vahida’s Story Family Traditional Cooking Arslan and Vahida Redzipovic are an American success story. A famed couple of restaurateurs and chefs in their native Bosnia, then a part of Yugoslavia, Arslan and Vahida were forced into flight during the Balkan Wars, Taking with them, in silence, the vast inherited tradition of their regions cuisine, and decades-long experience in making those traditions their own, Arslan and Vahida worked their way through the harsh life of a new-refugee, learning the language and ways of their adopted homeland. The couple was never far from restaurants, and soon opened the precious cargo that they’d gathered in a former life, that they’d carried throughout the entirety of a new one. The vision of a restaurant on the water, made manifest in Arslan’s Gyros, was the content of that cargo box. Come experience the culmination, and re-ignition, of a life spent in a kitchen, come experience an American success story, come experience Arslan’s Gyros.