Boston Shawarma — Restaurant in Boston

Well, fare to say when I saw the rating on Google the expectations went up.

However the first impression when entered the place wasn’t the greatest. Difficult to say that the place was clean. All the tables were greasy… the smell is a bit strange… Then I noticed meat, which didn’t really look like meat… it had a fake look.. but maybe it was real. So my wife and I both ordered chicken shawarma (I ordered a wrap, and my wife a shawarma salad). Size is really what’s good about this place. Especially salad. You can feed 4 people with that dish. But chicken was very very dry. And it didn’t taste good.

They are offering combo: when you buy a shawarma you get a bottle of Dasani water for free. Which isn’t a bad idea. But when I opened the water and tasted it…. Well, it was tap water with A LOT of chlorine in it! A guy next to me had the same conclusion… also we noticed that Dasani bottles in the fridge had variety of different level of water in them which is raising questions… When I asked a guy at the counter about water all he did was he smiled to me and said nothing…

We decided to not finish our lunch there, because if they went so cheep on water who knows how cheap they are on meet and other things.

But how this place has such a good rating? Because they offer a free baklava (desert) if you show them that you left a good review on Google….

P.s. few hours later my wife wasn’t feeling good with her stomach and...

I really don't like leaving 1-star reviews for restaurants because I know just how hard people work there. But I just had a rather negative experience with these guys.

First the delivery service - was just miserable. Waited 45 mins (said it would be delivered in 35 mins), called. Person answering said the drive left 10 mins ago. Which means it took them over 30 mins to get to my order. Fine. An hour passes, tried calling back - multiple times - no answer. Anbd this was around 1:30pm so definitely post-lunch rush hour so there should be no reason they didn't pick up like they did earlier (which was during rush hour). Suspect it's because they knew it was me and really didn't want to deal with me. Also understandable but not very nice. Finally after sometime over an hour I find out the food was delivered but I was never informed by text, phone or doorbell ring. Just left outside in the cold (sub-freezing). Apparently I'm not the only one who experienced this over the last several weeks.

Second the food - they should be embarrassed at how little meat there was in the rice dish. For the money, it was just bad value. I know inflation inflation inflation, but seriously - I would have expected twice the amount of meat for what we got and paid for. Not coming back. Would...

If you really want to waste your money then you should must go to Boston Shawarma , Because when you order any shawarma wrap either chicken or lamb they will serve you the full wrap with salad and there will be few dry pieces of lamb and chicken , so it would not be chicken shawarma or lamb shawarma, it would be a salad shawarma instead of chicken or lamb shawarma, they use to offer a free coke or pepsi with shawarma few or couple years back when the price was $9.99 per Shawarma and now it’s about $15 to $18 a shawarma and no free drink, but the sad part is that we drove about 55 to 60 miles to eat Shawarma from New Bedford to Boston with our kids and we were three families of 17 people all, and when we ordered lamb and chicken shawarmas we were served with salad shawarma wrap and we just wasted our money and time , I told the chef but he was very rude and he sad that’s how we make our sandwiches it’s our rule to put 85 percent salad and 15 percent meat , that’s not what he exactly said but that’s...