10/10 food, but the worker started the vacuuming the carpets and spraying the table with a chemical spray right next to my food. The smell was a very strong chemical smell, it probably got in the food. The food was good but I'd do takeout instead of dine-in. read more

Taste of Shawarma - Middle Eastern Near Me - Toronto, Ontario

Best shawarma I've had in the city honestly! Their meat is seasoned well, service is friendly and not a bad price for the amount of food. I've been here 3 times and every time I'm always raving!! read more

Taste of Shawarma - Chicken shawarma - Middle Eastern Near Me - Toronto, Ontario

Really tasty gyro and beef shawarma but I always find that their chicken shawarma has less meat. Great fillings and veggies I love that but j would have liked more meat. Been here a few times since it's close! read more

Wanted a quick lunch before we got the road and proximity to main arterial road that leads to the highway sealed the deal. We wanted to stay away from chain of restaurants that sell falafel/shawarma. It was an easy decision. The falafel are fried after you order them rather than refried from frozen and tons of toppings to choose from. Going to a small business gives us the unique toppings and flavours that are missing from the chains. The service was quick. The interior super clean. The sandwich was huge and it was just about impossible to finish. A dry wrap towards the end but we do not add garlic sauce to make it vegan. Otherwise it was great. Will return the next time we are in Barrie read more

Taste of Shawarma - Inside - Middle Eastern Near Me - Toronto, Ontario

the restaurant is bad service and the staff are always annoyed with customers if Customers ask something read more

This place is the best one for your shawarma cravings not until last Wednesday evening, I believe this indian guy is a new here working on evening shift and he is very rude for saying that I can only order 1 item because of the line up he made up a rules of himself just to make his job easy for him but not treating the customers right, never coming back there again. read more

I always order through Uber Eats. The food tastes great!! It comes on time, and hot. Thanks!

Just got the beef plate. Portions are really huge, it was for like two people so I couldn't finish it. That's a good thing I guess.. hummus was tasteless unfortunately but the beef tasted nice! Rice is also a little tasteless and oily and salad is hard to eat because of the big cuts, in general not bad but I would prefer other shawarma businesses. read more

Just ordered shwarma with fries. Some people think that customers are not humans and so whatever garbage you want feed them, you should feed them. Just because I use ubereats, doesn't mean you can serve burned food (chicken) just because I'm not there to confront you. This is the first time I'm reviewing something online. Can you imagine how bad your food is?? CUSTOMERS ARE HUMANS! SO PLEASE DONT SERVE THEM BURNED/GARBAGE FOOD. Thank you!!!!! read more

Taste of Shawarma - Burned chicken - Middle Eastern Near Me - Toronto, Ontario

I got the large chicken plate. Loads of chicken (if you can call it that) on a bed of rice. There were like 4-5 pickled turnips. (On a Large Plate) Which means I can only assume a small plate only gets 1-2 turnips Shame since the turnips would help cut all the fat still left on the chicken. The chicken: Maybe 20% was up to par, and the rest: GROSS. - Fatty (most pieces) - Crispy (in a bad way) - Nasty and Inedible If you honestly think this is good shawarma I would implore you try other shawarma places in your area. This is definitely not acceptable. I would feel bad feeding these cuts of chicken to my dog. The Rice: - TOO MUCH CINNAMON - I can practically taste only cinnamon Leads me to believe they were trying to mask some rather unsavory flavors. I ate because I was hungry at work. Ok if you're STARVING. Would not buy again. And to the people working at this place. Do you feel good about serving this food? Would you feed this garbage to your family? read more

Taste of Shawarma - Chicken and Rice - Middle Eastern Near Me - Toronto, Ontario

Been going here for my Shawarma for more than 5 years. LOVE it!! I first discovered this place when I lived in the area years ago, would go there after work since they're open till late. I usually order the chicken shawarma to go and the chicken is always juicy. Even though I don't live in the area anymore, I still make time to drive by and order. Customer service is great, the people are helpful and quick. I will definitely be back there again. Keep forgetting to take a picture of what I order. WIll do that next time and update this post! read more

The chicken quality has deteriorated over time. They've stopped doing the shawarma on the actual rotisserie (maybe due to high deman) and they're just frying the chicken on the pan. What a disappointment! The garlic Mayo was tatsteless. Not going back again. I was a loyal customer for 2 years but past couple of orders have been bad. read more

Delicious Middle Eastern take out food in a quaint clean. warm and friendly place. Chicken is always fresh and the salads are too. Toppings including colorful tasty vegetables & a variety of sauces are great. read more

Delicious Shawarma! Definitely the authentic thing! The shawarma had a good portion of meat and a good mixture of vegetables. Good selection of drinks with both North American and Middle Eastern (well Canadian Middle Eastern) options. My only criticism of this place is that the price point is slightly higher than some of the other Shawarma places I've been to. Total came to $10. But considering they are open late and the closest thing I've found to authentic shawarma outside of Scarborough. I'll be back! read more

My boyfriend and I came here and got the Chicken shawarma wrap on January 3rd, 2021 at around 10 pm and both of us ended up getting food poisoning. read more

I really enjoyed this place. The beef plate is amazing. The rice is fantastic and I don't even really like rice. A decent price for a lot of food. It's fucking bull shit they charge 50 fucking cents to pay them for the food when you use debit. What the fuck is that shit? Fuck you! I shouldn't have to pay to PAY you for your food. Roll it into the cost of the food you fucking dip shits! Don't tell me your charging me to fucking pay you! Better yet! How about you just don't charge me to pay you?!? How about that!!! Anyways it's good food and I'd go back. But pay cash if you can. Can we do something about this reoccurring bull shit trend of fuck wads charging for debit even though I jut dropped a ton of money at your establishment?!? can we come together as a community and tell these people to fuck themselves? Other than that great food! I recommend it. read more

There are so many reasons to give this place 5 stars: great parking, great hygenie measure during covid times, well trained staff, clean and well decorated...liked the little lemon dipper bottle and Italian herb salt shaker!...But when I got home and tasted that chicken shawarma, the toppings were excellent tasting but the taste of the chicken was horrible, area 51 alien ass taste! I'll go meatless with future purchases. read more

Tasty chicken, affordable, and closes late... Some of my friends who had lived here long time, and that enjoy night life, recommended me this place. When it is late, you have the "munchies" for something salty, tasty and even spciy ( that can also help you with next day hangover). This is one of the places you won't regret visiting... We went there on Saturday at 1:30 am. It had like 10 people eating there, and they all looked satisfied with what they were having. The smell was inviting; the place was clean (too much light for my preferences at that time); and the two guys attending were polite, quick and efficient. We asked for two chicken Shawarmas to go, and in five minutes we were paying. It was less than 20 dls, for all that amount of food. When we started eating back home, I couldn't finished my chicken, even when I wanted to, but awesome, cuz I had lunch for next day!!! Definitely going back. And yes, the chicken fries are a hit for crowds of nocturne party animals... read more

Taste of Shawarma - Chicken Shawarma to go, at 1:40!!! Yummy - Middle Eastern Near Me - Toronto, Ontario

Tasty chicken shawarma with all the pickles, veggies, marinated onions and parsley! Plus the service was so nice. Kind people there.

Too much sauce on food and lack of actual flavour. Oily and not juicy. They also have No gourmet salad options like other places do. No cabbage slaw or red cabbage, no nothing. Their purple turnips are very rotten. Their cucumbers are always rotten and shrivelled up. The only reason it's busy is because it closes late, also lots of young people put so much sauce that you taste nothing else. They buy the fries and chicken. They don't know better. Their shawarma sauce is all mayo based too. They didn't have any debit or credit at the time they have an atm machine inside so you waste 2$, they gain. read more

This is very close to us, so we go often. Overall we've had great experiences here. It seems like it's changed hands a few time over the years (different staff all of a sudden), but they are always reliable. We usually get chicken plates with brown (or "dirty") rice which is just white rice with mild spices in it. Everything is fresh and tasty. A few times we've had dry chicken that was sitting on the grill a bit too long, but if you ask, they cut fresh for you off the spit without a hassle. Normally the chicken is juicy, flavorful with great crispy edges. They are very generous with portions and sauces. We like this ; ). I'm a lover of Toum (garlic sauce) so always ask for lots, and always say I'm happy to pay extra, but they pile it on and say no charge with a smile. The sandwiches are equally good, and the fries covered in toum and feta (not on menu, just ask) are craaaazy good. Drink selection is limited, and they don't have a many toppings as other shops, but we don't care. 20 bucks gets us 2 huge dinners we can never finish. And they are on Uber Eats for delivery if you're feeling lazy. read more

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I really, really hate to do this but I need to go back on my initial review and give this place a 1 star due to my most recent experience. I have been to this place many times and as I mentioned in my previous review (this place is a hit and miss but more hits than misses) - not this time around. Here are the 3 MAJOR issues I had with my recent visit: 1. The server was rightfully so using gloves to handle our food but when I went to the washroom (i'll chat about that experience in point number 2) I noticed that he ran to the door and was fixing the door or doing something with it to get it close because someone didn't close it properly and it kept beeping. Anyways when I came back I noticed he started wrapping my shawarma and I asked my boyfriend- did he change his gloves? He's like no why (my boyfriend was getting money from the ATM because it is cash only there so he didn't notice the guy left to go fix this door or whatever). I then told him what he did and we were completely turned off. He was literally feeling up the door and handle and it was just plain gross...and that point I should have been like, ciao bello....eat the shawarma yourself. 2. Upon walking to the washroom you walk past their backroom/kitchen area. As I walked by I looked as the door was wide open and I noticed not 1 not 2 but 6 bags of chicken sitting in a HOT ass room on top of cardboard boxes. The bags were not cut open and just sitting in blood in a hot room without any acknowledgement from the staff. They also had it right beside the trays they were using to cut the fresh vegetables which just looks unsanitary! A BIG NO NO!! which leads to me to believe all these factors resulted in point # 3. 3. My boyfriend was so ill after we ate there- I couldn't get the poor guy home FAST enough. Without going into too much details, let's just say, it was a very unpleasant evening for him. I gave this place way too many chances before in the past but they will NOT get my business anymore. Store your food properly, practice proper hygiene, get with the 21st century and get a damn POS system already and figure out why everyone is always getting sick after they eat your shit. read more

STAFF: I don't recall friendlier staff at any other restaurant. The woman and the girl working there make you feel welcome with their smiles and positive attitude. I cannot say enough good things about how friendly the service is at this place. FOOD: Here's why I'm giving this place a 2/5 rating. I had a chicken shawarma plate with fries, salad and white sauce on top. The fries were ok, but either the chicken or the sauce had a strong smell and taste of vinegar. I was hungry and had to eat against my will, because there was no other decent place open that evening. I'm not stating anything definitively, but typically, restaurants use this trick of using vinegar to mask the real taste of food that has gone bad, but needs to be utilized to meet profitability goals. It is possible that their chicken had gone bad that day, so they used vinegar to mask the true flavour. I will never know, because I'm not going back to that place again. Bottom line: Next time, I'm going to my tried and true favourite place - Babos Donerpoint at 2216 Eglinton Ave West. read more

Disgusting quality, chicken swarma plate had little chicken and good amount of chicken fat. Asked for fries and no rice , got rice and fries in side. Asked for all sauces got 1. Honestly , I ended up throwing it out cause I could not eat it. Dessert was dry. Only thing good in the order was the Diet Coke. $23 delivered def not worth it. Gross ! Won't be ordering again. read more

Taste of Shawarma - Chicken fat - Middle Eastern Near Me - Toronto, Ontario

Unfortunately, the quality of this establishment has significantly dropped within the last year, yesr and a half. It's disappointing because I had a lot of respect for this restaurant. It feels as if you serve people like they're in a prison lunch room. Two thumbs down. read more

Worst Shawarma in the city. Zero flavour. Zero toppings. most minimal serving size.

Definitely my go-to shawarma joint. Chicken and fries are a crowd favourite. I order the large for $9 flat, though a dinner plate (half salad, half chicken over rice or fries) is only a dollar more (tax included). For those of you wondering the difference between the white rice and the brown rice: white rice has a bit more butter/veggie flavouring, while the brown rice is more spiced and tends to leave a cinnamonny aftertaste. Regardless of what you order, the guys behind the counter will niiiiice you. 11/10 would recommend. read more

Taste of Shawarma - $10 chicken shawarma plate feat. fries, hold the rice. Got a salad in attempts to justify and balance out the need for frites. L O L - Middle Eastern Near Me - Toronto, Ontario

Oily, dry, disgusting stringy, tasteless excuse for "chicken". To add insult, they charged for hummus and garlic sauce. My goodness, this is, without a doubt, the worst meal ever! Fries were old, dry and greasy at the same time, obviously cooked some time before (frozen) an d reheated (microwaved). Definitely not fresh potatoes. Why do we, paying customers, have to put up with being ignored upon entering the restaurant and treated like sub humans.? Employees snickering and making snide comments to each other about me....was it because of my ethnicity? I was pleasant and said "hello and was completely ignored. Should have left.....salad was sad and sadder, wilted mess and although I asked for dressing on the side, they put this tasteless greasy liquid with no taste other than putrid smelling crap on top of som e sort of green mess!! read more

Lemme jus say. If you're looking for an authentic shwarma place. This isn't one It's overpriced, tastes average and the sauces they give you are trash. There's a few better places in the area read more

I am shocked to see such great reviews for this place. I tried and was disappointed. I believe if actual middle easterners ate here, this place would be shut down by now. They did not impress me at all, and I am not middle eastern, but know what good food is. Quantity of chicken was not enough, they didn't even have the right consistency in their sauces, they didn't even know how to wrap up the bread properly. To top it off; the place is cash only. They charge tax but their receipt didn't display their HST number on it. Seems like they are collecting sales tax but not reporting it to the government. I will not eat there again. read more

Mediocre at best. Got this delivered and was almost flavourless and didn't use correct rice- it was more like plain asian rice with the meal. Not enough sauce and wasn't completely appetizing for $15 after delivery read more

Mmmmmmm Chicken Shawarma! I ran into this place randomly after searching poynt. For around $6 I was stuffed! It was sliced right off and fried a little longer. Delicious :) It wasn't dry at all. I'll definitely go back read more

After being introduced here by my boyfriend, I've been obsessed. We always get the chicken and fries special and it never disappoints. Don't be fooled by how the exterior or the store looks like, it's a hidden gem in this area! read more

Taste of Shawarma - Large chicken and fries. I couldn't even finish this in one go! - Middle Eastern Near Me - Toronto, Ontario

Ordered on Foodora, order came late, and I was starving. It was a big beef Shawarma plate, and I just wanted to dig in. I tried the beef, and I just felt disgusted. The texture was very off... off beyond belief, like an old mushy cheese! It wasn't very appetizing, and even-though I was hungry, I was disgusted and stopped eating halfway. Nothing to say about the rest! So many better Shawarma places to try! read more

I called attempting to place an order over the phone as I am a tow truck worker, and am constantly on the road. I was greeted by a very rude employee, who told me I could use an app to make the transaction when I'm driving and cannot be on my phone. She proceeded to be rude, and not very welcoming. The customer service is crap. Please train staff to be less rude and more courteous. Number one rule is the customer is ALWAYS right. As a service provider this should be known. Over all bad customer service staff needs retraining. read more

Huge portions, and great prices. The chicken shawarma was good. I really enjoyed the hummus, the best compared to other shawarma restaurants in my area. The tabouleh is definitely fresh, full of parsley and not dripping in dressing or oil like other places. read more

Amazing food!! Chicken fries are the best. But not impressed with their service. No one ever looks happy to serve you, they just want to close up the shop. Called their telephone number 4 times, with no answer. Actually the second time some girl answered, she picked up and said hello, confirmed it was taste of shawarma. We kindly asked for her to allow us to order take out, and she hung up. Never answered any more calls after that... Don't have a phone if you never pick it up. Especially business phone. read more

This place has been around for years and has been my go to late night shawarma place. Great portions and service. The chick is amazing always juicy and crunchy at the same time. Only downside is they only take cash, but luckily there is an ATM inside. Highly recommend. read more

Chicken shawarma was technically chicken fat with a splash of chicken. Fries was fried in the oil used a million times. Falafel was hard to bite because of the crusty surface. As if it was prepared 2 days ago and left out to dry. The falafel was wrapped soooo sloppy. I can't even think of one good thing about the food. Kind of starting to feel like they didn't like me and tried to give me something to keep me away from going back there. I try to avoid writing reviews but this place made me sick and needed to let others know of the awful quality of the food. After 9 hours I still taste the horrible food taste in my mouth. read more

Uses very thin and soft pita. Meat is very juicy and cured very well and has tons of flavour. Absolutely delicious. This is more of a take out place, I wouldn't stay here to eat. Updated...came here just last week. The wait time was 25 minutes for a shawarma. Don't know what was going on. Even AFTER 25 minutes they were not ready, just left. It doesn't take that long to serve shawarma but if there were any issues they should have informed me. I left the store waiting 25 minutes later empty handed. read more