Kebab, Shwarma restaurants in Middle East
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Lebanese Flower
Abu Dhabi's most popular Lebanese restaurant does delicious mixed grill meats and delicious garlicky chicken shwarmas . They also sell fabulous Lebanese sweets and pastries.
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Shwarma stands
There are plenty of shwarma stands in the centre of Manama, around the back of Bab al-Bahrain and in the souq, where the large turnover of customers ensures the freshness of the snack. Woody's, near the rear of Bahrain International Hotel, is one such establishment, where roll-up sandwiches cost 250 fils and a mixed-fruit juice 500 fils - there's no charge for the ringside view of life behind Government Ave.
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110 Hamburgers
The best, however, is this place to which Shirazis come like moths to a neon flame (two glowing palm trees). Their version of the shwarma, with meat sliced off a spit and shovelled into a bread roll with healthy bits like tomato and pickle (IR18,000), is good.
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R&B Shawerma
Not your average sliced-meat stand, the shwarmas here come in three sizes - 6, 10 and 12 inches - and come in Chinese, chicken and cheese varieties. The fries are good too.
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Garden
If the Garden had as good a PR machine as Diana, it too would be knocking back customers. The rocket and tabbouleh salads are so fresh they look like they could wander off the plate, while the labneh (thick yoghurt flavoured with garlic) is delicately spiced and competes for attention with deliciously fragrant meats grilled on cinnamon sticks, and it's all washed down with fresh lemonade. The food here is second to none.
Unfortunately the huge space is not easy to fill and the restaurant appears to suffer from the killer 'if it's not full, it's obviously not good' syndrome.
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Diana
Mention to anyone that you are heading to Nazareth, they will invariably know little about the town, except that you must eat at Diana. Behind a rather unassuming façade, Arab chef Dokhol Safadi presents an incredible range of more than a dozen mezze dishes. Try and save room for the house speciality - spicy handmade kebabs with pine nuts - one dish will definitely suffice for a couple. Hugely popular with visiting Israelis, it's best to book ahead, especially on weekends.
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Souq al Mobarkia
One of the best ways to get a feel for the heart of the city is to pull up a chair at one of the casual tables strewn around the western edge of the old souq on a semi-pedestrianised street called Abdullah as Salem St. If you order kebabs at lunchtime, a generous helping of green leaves, pickles, hummus and Arabic bread arrives to garnish the meat.
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Co-op Supermarket
A number of small restaurants, cafés and shwarma stands can be found in the New Tourist Centre, opposite the IMAX theatre, as well as the food court inside the Red Canyon Mall. If a sandwich is sufficient - and it probably will be given Eilat's appetite-busting temperatures - try the Co-op Supermarket, or the one in the Shalom Centre.
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Modern Tabriz Restaurant
This good-value favourite serves great kababs and excellent fried trout in a large, basement dining hall that somehow finds a successful blend of olde-worlde charm, 1960s retro and idiosyncratic kitsch. Meal prices include ‘service’, ie salad, soft drink and delicious barley-and-barberry soup.
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Turkish Sheep Restaurant
Between Roundabouts 3 and 4, this popular venue offers sizzling kebabs, marinated in the chef's best spices, reputedly from Ottoman origin, and naughty triple-decker fruit juices. If these aren't hitting the spot, then the fresh-baked baklavas right next door from the Lebanese sweet shop surely will.
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Gavara Restaurant
The subterranean Gavara is an old-style local – an unpretentious, neon-lit hall divided into sections for men, and women and families. The menu is big and the food unsophisticated but very tasty; kababs, khoreshts, fish (sometimes) and a decent ghorme sabzi.
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Restaurant 99
Near Al-Jahra Gate, this is one of the city's best bets for a quick bite. Hummus, shwarma (meat sliced off a spit and stuffed in a pocket of pita-type bread with chopped tomatoes and garnish) and a wide variety of Arabic-bread fillings are on offer for a few hundred fils.
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Al-Kindi Restaurant
Just off Sharia Bab al-Faraj, this is one of a cluster of similar kebab restaurants, all of which offer reasonable food at budget prices. It has an extensive menu in English made up of myriad mezze and grilled kebabs and is open from early until very late.
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Nobahar Restaurant
Nobahar Restaurant has been around forever because it serves reliably good, reasonably priced staples like kababs and zereshk polo ba morgh. It’s not stylish and service isn’t great, but that’s not what you’re here for.
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Reem Cafeteria
There are hundreds of shoebox-sized shwarma dives in Amman but few that have the punters queuing down the street at 3am. Even the royal family are rumoured to have dropped in here for a late-night kebab. And if it’s good enough for them…
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Reem Tourist Restaurant
Step into the noisy belly of this local institution and you're in for a treat. Good atmosphere, smartly turned-out waiters and heavenly banana juices (YR150) are just some of the highlights. The kebabs (YR200) are also worth a pop.
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Al-Safara'ah Restaurant
One of two good open-air restaurants next to each other by the entry access to the southern end of the public beach. Good-value shwarma meals and grilled chicken dishes make this the best value place in town.
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Honarmandan
Vaulted underground eatery with an amusing if tacky ‘sculpted’ centrepiece water-feature and a choice of tables or carpeted sitting platforms. Decent kababs and rich dizi (IR15,000).
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Fast Meal
Superclean and close to the Roman Theatre, you can get a burger/shwarma, fries and juice combo here, though the burgers are pretty anaemic. If nothing else, pop in for one of the superb juice smoothies.
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Eram Restaurant
Eram’s staff are as eccentric as its wavy brickwork interior, which culminates in green-bronze framed copies of the Bisotun reliefs. It serves mainly kababs, but does fesenjun at lunchtime.
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Jawed Traditional Restaurant
Arguably the best of the garden restaurants, Jawed serves several varieties of delicious kababs and some less meaty dishes, all washed down with chay (tea) and qalyan (water pipe).
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Arabian Sea Restaurant
On the ground floor of the Sur Hotel (the entrance faces the other side of the block), this is a popular and lively local restaurant. It serves tasty bean dishes and kebabs.
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Moses Art Café
Informal Lebanese place that serves lamb chops, steaks, kebabs, hummus and homemade lemonade. The friendly owner Moses is always up for engaging political debate.
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Karish
Step up to the bar and order hot-off-the-grill chicken or steak wrap, stuffed with diced tomatoes, peppers, guacamole and garlic sauce. Delish.
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Midrahov Cafés
The cheapest sit-down dining options are the Midrahov Cafés, which do standards like kebab or schnitzel with salad and chips.
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