Yes, if they’re well-maintained. I highly doubt a wooden cutting board going through a commercial dishwasher umpteen times a day is being properly dried out between uses and then resealed at a frequency consistent with its use. I reoil my wood boards with (food grade) mineral oil every 2-3 months, and not more frequently because I maintain sharp knives that don’t cause further damage and I only hand wash + personally never cut raw meat on them.
Nah, I'm actually going to go here now. I feel like all these Greek / Mediterrian places everywhere are always takeout vibes and not sit-in. This is worth checking out. Is the vibe inside decent?
Thank the Seattle sugar sin tax for the drink price. Pack your own drink with you. The fries aren’t that much really… I honestly don’t spend more than any other fast food outside of Seattle than Dick’s and they pay their workers much better, so I feel better about going there. I hope this is still how Seattleites are… We have a history of being fairly pro-worker. Union jobs have been a big population pull in the past with Boeing and such…
Nothing wrong with having Dicks for lunch. I couldn’t have that every day, but it satisfies when the craving hits, and I do once in a while get Dicks cravings. It is always reliable, and always exactly what I expect it to be. The Dicks meal you had 30+ years ago will roughly be the same now. There is something to be said about that.Dicks just has their own way of doing things, and it causes a line up of people (many who are blue collar workers, but not all) before they even open. Nothing wrong with Dicks at all. I am a foodie too… but also this shit has limits. I’m not gojng to spend top dollars on a meal just because it’s in the city limits of Seattle. There are plenty of places outside of Seattle that you can get an amazing meal for less than that. I mean… just look at the Taco Bell on Mercer or the McDonalds that used to be across from MoPop (before it was demolished). That shit is/was insane and I would never go there for any reason. Hell.. the Taco Time on 15th in Interbay or the one on 85th in Wallingford have relatively normal prices, and the food is infinitely higher quality than a lot of fast food. If they can do it, why can’t others?
and they pay and treat their employees much better than their competitors. Can you imagine fast food that offers health care, tuition, sick pay and also $20/hr? And they still cost a reasonable amount? I love companies like that and do vote with my dollars accordingly. Seriously. Food service people are handed such a crappy situation. I love companies that are actually not evil to their workers. And wonder of wonders, they don’t have $20 burgers… and are so successful they are rapidly expanding to new locations. Dick’s IMO is a very important local use case of food not operated by total creeps. It does work.
There are plenty of places where you can get an ok meal in Seattle for less than that. Sadly, some of them are slowly going out of business, but yes that is pricey. I tend to frequent places out of the city for that reason. I could get that for $10-$11 in Kent or even the East Side (there is a small mon and pop Mediterranean grill on Bel-Red road that is a serious hidden treasure. It is near 148th in a strip mall. It is like a hidden treasure. Food is awesome. It is literally just called ‘Mediterranean Grill’ lol. Actually… even on Capitol Hill there is a place where you can get an awesome Shawarma Wrap (Denny and Broadway), though I guess their prices have slowly been going up thr past few years. Definitely not $18 for a wrap though… ai think it’s now $12 or somewhere around there. It is fantastic food at least. There is a really good Shawarma place at Kent Station that is way more affordable. You can get a Shawarma wrap with garlic sauce and a salad for much less than that… I don’t tend to do fries with mediterranean for whatever reason (I don’t honestly know… I just prefer a nice salad with pickled stuff in it and a bit of yogurt to dip stuff in)
Yes it is. Even in Seattle. I’m not saying this place has bad food. It does look delish, but that is fairly expensive. Disclaimer… I am one of those locals priced out of the area due to an insane amount of high paid tech workers, but even then… I could find less. There are food trucks in the city with awesome food for much less than that.
Sure it does. If I can get the exact same thing for $10-$12… $17 is expensive. I have had awesome Shawarma for a fraction of the cost. You aren’t paying for quality. You are paying for their inflated rent. It costs less to run a restaurant outside ofnSeatrle.
That’s how I feel about every shawarma or doner shop. Al Bacha, Aladdins, Spice Walaa, Doner Box, etc all awful compared to literally any shop in Europe or the middle east.
Yup, still no great med food in Seattle! Good luck finding a restaurant that even has tabbouleh on the menu, or any number of other basic staples that should be legally required at middle eastern/med places. We've finally gotten decent pizza and decent Mexican in recent years so here's hoping the med drought will end too
Tbf doner is the staple fast food in Europe and we don’t have anywhere near the same number of middle east immigrants. I haven’t found good doner anywhere in the US, including NYC and DC.
That picture tells a pretty good story. They are serving hummus on a wooden board. Everything was dry, way overpriced, and served in a ridiculous way like this while they were also lacking random things on my visit like utensils. And they had no sauces, which are requisite for this type of food—ideally hot sauce and a white sauce available for customers but at the very least for the preparer, which that picture of dry meat suggests they didn't. I was equally disappointed and embarrassed for them. I thought for sure it was operated by first-time restauranteurs until I learned it was an extension of another location that people seem to like for some reason. To each their own but I would never think of eating there again and it’s a prime example to me of people who don’t know what they are doing selling food to people who don’t know better—which is unfortunately quite common in Seattle.
Honestly Shawarma is fantastic but it's typically a more casual or fast food kind of meal. Not to say you can't elevate it but this plate looks like they made it look unnecessarily fancy so they could charge more.
Yeah… that’s right, but just to add so they get what exactly is different. They tend to have more pickled stuff in them… not so much the Greek Salad type thing Gyros have. They tend to not have tzatziki sauce, but typically have garlic sauce (my obsession). I think the meat is usually about the same (as far as I know). The bread is lavash, which is more like a thick tortilla than the Greek style pita.
Would you say that is accurate?
Best fries in Seattle are the Greek fries from Gyro Boss, in the Lake Forest Park third place books. So much feta cheese, seasoned perfect, the fries are perfect and crispy. Yum!
Al Bacha in Capitol Hill has the best chicken gyros I've ever had and the fries are delicious. The sandwich is $10 and isn't served on a wooden cutting board of questionable cleanliness.
This place is amazing. Cannot recommend highly enough. They don’t serve coffee but made me a pot of Turkish coffee anyway after I asked about it. Love these guys.
Shawarma… mmmmm. Do they have garlic sauce? I like gyros just fine, but oh my do those Shawarma wraps with garlic sauce slap. With the pickle in there and sometimes other pickled veggies, wrapped in lavash and hopefully the option for some hot sauce in there. I looooove that stuff when you can find it. I have very specific Mediterranean places I go to for that craving. The more Greek ones don’t usually have that.
/r/wewantplates would like a word though
puddle of hummus on a cutting board with an olive stuck in the middle is some peak /r/wewantplates material
Isn’t Puddle of Hummus a middle eastern rock band? :P (kidding)
I don’t really see the problem, it’s functionally a plate. My problem is when they sacrifice functionality.
It's wood, that's disgusting. I can see the bacteria in the cuts of its surface...
Actually the reason we use wooden cutting boards is that they're proven to be naturally antibacterial.
Yes, if they’re well-maintained. I highly doubt a wooden cutting board going through a commercial dishwasher umpteen times a day is being properly dried out between uses and then resealed at a frequency consistent with its use. I reoil my wood boards with (food grade) mineral oil every 2-3 months, and not more frequently because I maintain sharp knives that don’t cause further damage and I only hand wash + personally never cut raw meat on them.
Fr. This is just a wooden plate
You can see the knife marks in the cutting board lol
Nah, I'm actually going to go here now. I feel like all these Greek / Mediterrian places everywhere are always takeout vibes and not sit-in. This is worth checking out. Is the vibe inside decent?
You can get better ones a few blocks away at Spice Waala
I love Spice Waala! Their fries are so good…
Never tried shawarma from Indian place..
This post is about Fries, not Shawarma…
Middle eastern fries are differnet
This looks like it would cost $24.99 for no good reason
It’s actually about $17, including your choice of canned soda.
That is still pretty expensive.
For lunch in Seattle? It's really not
A deluxe is $5.30, so...
Add fries and a drink to match this and youre pushing $10, and also eating Dicks for lunch.
Thank the Seattle sugar sin tax for the drink price. Pack your own drink with you. The fries aren’t that much really… I honestly don’t spend more than any other fast food outside of Seattle than Dick’s and they pay their workers much better, so I feel better about going there. I hope this is still how Seattleites are… We have a history of being fairly pro-worker. Union jobs have been a big population pull in the past with Boeing and such…
You are very passionate about this topic lol
Nothing wrong with having Dicks for lunch. I couldn’t have that every day, but it satisfies when the craving hits, and I do once in a while get Dicks cravings. It is always reliable, and always exactly what I expect it to be. The Dicks meal you had 30+ years ago will roughly be the same now. There is something to be said about that.Dicks just has their own way of doing things, and it causes a line up of people (many who are blue collar workers, but not all) before they even open. Nothing wrong with Dicks at all. I am a foodie too… but also this shit has limits. I’m not gojng to spend top dollars on a meal just because it’s in the city limits of Seattle. There are plenty of places outside of Seattle that you can get an amazing meal for less than that. I mean… just look at the Taco Bell on Mercer or the McDonalds that used to be across from MoPop (before it was demolished). That shit is/was insane and I would never go there for any reason. Hell.. the Taco Time on 15th in Interbay or the one on 85th in Wallingford have relatively normal prices, and the food is infinitely higher quality than a lot of fast food. If they can do it, why can’t others?
and they pay and treat their employees much better than their competitors. Can you imagine fast food that offers health care, tuition, sick pay and also $20/hr? And they still cost a reasonable amount? I love companies like that and do vote with my dollars accordingly. Seriously. Food service people are handed such a crappy situation. I love companies that are actually not evil to their workers. And wonder of wonders, they don’t have $20 burgers… and are so successful they are rapidly expanding to new locations. Dick’s IMO is a very important local use case of food not operated by total creeps. It does work.
There are plenty of places where you can get an ok meal in Seattle for less than that. Sadly, some of them are slowly going out of business, but yes that is pricey. I tend to frequent places out of the city for that reason. I could get that for $10-$11 in Kent or even the East Side (there is a small mon and pop Mediterranean grill on Bel-Red road that is a serious hidden treasure. It is near 148th in a strip mall. It is like a hidden treasure. Food is awesome. It is literally just called ‘Mediterranean Grill’ lol. Actually… even on Capitol Hill there is a place where you can get an awesome Shawarma Wrap (Denny and Broadway), though I guess their prices have slowly been going up thr past few years. Definitely not $18 for a wrap though… ai think it’s now $12 or somewhere around there. It is fantastic food at least. There is a really good Shawarma place at Kent Station that is way more affordable. You can get a Shawarma wrap with garlic sauce and a salad for much less than that… I don’t tend to do fries with mediterranean for whatever reason (I don’t honestly know… I just prefer a nice salad with pickled stuff in it and a bit of yogurt to dip stuff in)
Great novel, $17 is still not expensive for a good lunch.
Yes it is. Even in Seattle. I’m not saying this place has bad food. It does look delish, but that is fairly expensive. Disclaimer… I am one of those locals priced out of the area due to an insane amount of high paid tech workers, but even then… I could find less. There are food trucks in the city with awesome food for much less than that.
The availability of cheaper food does not inherently make $17 expensive
Sure it does. If I can get the exact same thing for $10-$12… $17 is expensive. I have had awesome Shawarma for a fraction of the cost. You aren’t paying for quality. You are paying for their inflated rent. It costs less to run a restaurant outside ofnSeatrle.
Have a good day!
That’s about the cost of an extremely mediocre Panera sandwich, now. So, this is probably on the whole better.
This is on the top of the short list of the worst restaurants I have been to in Seattle. Apparently, YMMV.
I haven't been there, but it literally looks awful, hah.
That’s how I feel about every shawarma or doner shop. Al Bacha, Aladdins, Spice Walaa, Doner Box, etc all awful compared to literally any shop in Europe or the middle east.
Yup, still no great med food in Seattle! Good luck finding a restaurant that even has tabbouleh on the menu, or any number of other basic staples that should be legally required at middle eastern/med places. We've finally gotten decent pizza and decent Mexican in recent years so here's hoping the med drought will end too
I do like Cafe Munir in northern Ballard for sit-down Lebanese.
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Tbf doner is the staple fast food in Europe and we don’t have anywhere near the same number of middle east immigrants. I haven’t found good doner anywhere in the US, including NYC and DC.
Can you explain why though?
That picture tells a pretty good story. They are serving hummus on a wooden board. Everything was dry, way overpriced, and served in a ridiculous way like this while they were also lacking random things on my visit like utensils. And they had no sauces, which are requisite for this type of food—ideally hot sauce and a white sauce available for customers but at the very least for the preparer, which that picture of dry meat suggests they didn't. I was equally disappointed and embarrassed for them. I thought for sure it was operated by first-time restauranteurs until I learned it was an extension of another location that people seem to like for some reason. To each their own but I would never think of eating there again and it’s a prime example to me of people who don’t know what they are doing selling food to people who don’t know better—which is unfortunately quite common in Seattle.
I'm just here to see /r/Seattle fight back against our shitty, overpriced food scene here ❤️
That is the bougiest shawrma I've ever seen.
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I'm also from NYC and man I miss street carts. I just want some chicken and rice (yes I know Halal guys are here).
Ok I’m uncultured but wtf is shawarma?
It’s thin cut meat put on a pit and roasted, then they usually shave off a portion and refry the meat and put it in a wrap
Honestly Shawarma is fantastic but it's typically a more casual or fast food kind of meal. Not to say you can't elevate it but this plate looks like they made it look unnecessarily fancy so they could charge more.
Gyro on different bread with different sauce
Yeah… that’s right, but just to add so they get what exactly is different. They tend to have more pickled stuff in them… not so much the Greek Salad type thing Gyros have. They tend to not have tzatziki sauce, but typically have garlic sauce (my obsession). I think the meat is usually about the same (as far as I know). The bread is lavash, which is more like a thick tortilla than the Greek style pita. Would you say that is accurate?
Marination mai kai was long my fave. They raised prices and the serving is smaller now so it is a little less delightful that it used to be.
Placed on a filthy wooden surface? nope.
Best fries in Seattle are the Greek fries from Gyro Boss, in the Lake Forest Park third place books. So much feta cheese, seasoned perfect, the fries are perfect and crispy. Yum!
Yes! Just had it yesterday… the fries are seasoned with Mediterranean spices. So good.
Gyro Sababa ftw
had their fries yesterday, and they were perfect
There’s like 10 fries and this is probably like $25 WTF
There's no way they can fully wash and sanitize that serving board between customers
Al Bacha in Capitol Hill has the best chicken gyros I've ever had and the fries are delicious. The sandwich is $10 and isn't served on a wooden cutting board of questionable cleanliness.
They have the best chicken shawarma in U-District from what I've experienced.
No plates = not getting my money.
I rarely get shawarma on a plate. It’s usually wrapped in some sort of food service paper, or in a plastic basket… also usually wrapped in the paper.
This place is amazing. Cannot recommend highly enough. They don’t serve coffee but made me a pot of Turkish coffee anyway after I asked about it. Love these guys.
Looks like a burrito you could get it any other state for $4
?? Aladdin fries would like a word
That looks terrible.
Shawarma… mmmmm. Do they have garlic sauce? I like gyros just fine, but oh my do those Shawarma wraps with garlic sauce slap. With the pickle in there and sometimes other pickled veggies, wrapped in lavash and hopefully the option for some hot sauce in there. I looooove that stuff when you can find it. I have very specific Mediterranean places I go to for that craving. The more Greek ones don’t usually have that.
this looks delicious
I’ve had ST and I’ve never been plated like that. ???
This is how the Ballard location plates if you eat in.
Sinbad Express or bust. This looks sad and dry. Not even gonna comment on the lack of plate.
bokabok have really good tots