Shah’s Kebab Invermay — Local services in Launceston

Hadn’t had a kebab here in a while but detoured on my way home because I remembered them being solid. If you’re thinking of doing the same I can’t recommend it.

Prices have gone up, fair enough, servings have shrunk and quality has gone down.

Came in alone, only customer, dinner time on a weeknight. Kid didn’t know the menu, couldn’t tell me prices, didn’t want to be there. After they’d made the kebab, saw them fiddling with the toaster/press. Suspect they were turning it on, but they left it open the whole time? Was baffled when he handed me my order soon after because I didn’t see it go in the press. Asked the lad straight up, “did you toast it?”, and he was emphatic enough that I figured I was wrong and half-apologised for giving him a hard time.

Got home and kebab was stone cold, raw bread, unmelted cheese. Paper was brand new, hadn’t touched a platten. Should have taken a photo but I bought a kebab because I was tired and hungry so it went straight in the airfryer.

Chips were a mix of new and old, as in ‘some might have been sitting in the fryer since before I got there’ old. A bunch of dark brown and chewy ones, old oil taste. Instead of tossing them in chicken salt young lad just put them in the upright box and dumped a 1/2 teaspoon of it on top. Didn’t realise the bottom of the box had holes until there was chicken salt all over my pants and car seats.

Lads - take 15 more seconds and salt them in a stainless salad bowl before you put them in the box, then just put the box in a little paper bag like every other takeaway shop in Australia.

Polar opposite of some of the other recent reviews, so either it changed owners last week, or I got the work experience kids. Either way I’m kind of impressed by how poorly they managed to do something this simple.

I hate leaving a negative review, especially for a small local (family-owned?) joint, but I figured honest feedback now is better than having your business go down the tube and being left wondering...

Worst Experience!!!! We were at this kebab shop waiting for our meal, a bloke who asserted to be the owner started screaming at us. We were absolutely dismayed and perplexed about him screaming at us for no reason, we turned towards him, he yelled at us again saying that the runner has been calling our names out to collect the order since the last 10 minutes. We were not even at the kebab shop for that long. In response to this, we told him that his behavior is absolutely insolent and impertinent and being the owner does not give him the right to treat his customers disdainfully. Instead of being repentant, he got extremely exasperated and came close to my partner to try and get physical with him. We had to call the cops as we were really petrified. We confirmed with one of the servers if he was the owner, and she told us that he certainly is the owner of this place. We’re startled with...

We'd search the deepest valleys and the highest mountains for a great falafel wrap. As it happened, we found it at Shah's Kebab in Invermay. The salad ingredients were fresh, even just before closing, the falafels were tasty and the garlic sauce was strong and silky. What's more, the premises were spotlessly clean and the staff were lovely, apologising for the wait due to a flurry of online orders. Oh, and in the midst of this Tasmania-wide potato famine they served chips that tasted like they were made from real potatoes (not those floury frozen imposters that taste like, well, nothing). They...