Kurdish Street Food
About
Street Vendors, Middle Eastern, Fast Food
Price Range : Under $10 (£££)
Location
Adress: 14 Allison Street Govanhill, Glasgow, G42
Phone: +44 7450 826313
Business info
- list_altTakes ReservationsNo
- directions_carDeliveryNo
- move_to_inboxTake-outYes
- directions_bikeBike ParkingNo
- groupGood for GroupsNo
- new_releasesAttireCasual
Reviews
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Gregory C.
Best Falafel wraps in town!!!
Proper with loads of salad, yogurt and tahini sauce!!! Wow!
And they bake their own bread!
Best In Scotland actually!!! -
Jennie H.
After having seen a couple of people posting on Facebook about this new place on Allison Street, we walked up and got ourselves a takeaway. While it looks a bit like a typical kebab shop where you might get chips and pakora and pizzas too, the menu sticks to authentic Middle Eastern food with sharwma and a range of starters including baba ganoush, tabbouleh and fatoush (a type of salad).
The starters are all around £3 and there's a mixed starter on the menu for £7.50 so thinking it might be like, y'know, a mix of starters, I asked about that but the guy said they didn't have any. So I ordered baba ganoush and tabbouleh starters but they didn't have any tabbouleh either, so I ordered baba ganoush and hummus. For mains, I ordered a chicken shwarma and a lamb shwarma - I spent some time in the Middle East in 2003 and I'm always on the hunt for a Scottish chicken shwarma that's just like the real thing.
The total was around £16 for two starters and two mains. All the bread is freshly made and really tasty. The shwarmas were pretty good, not drop dead amazing but better than your average takeaway kebab. The hummus was good and the baba ganoush had fresh green pepper chopped through it which I've never had before but which gave it a fresh, sharp taste.
While we were in, it was quite busy and the rest of the clientèle were all (I'm guessing) Kurdish so they were either all friends and family or this place must do something approaching authentic food. There were a few small tables you could sit at but it's definitely more of a takeaway place.
The main thing I didn't like was that there was an overflowing rubbish bin just as you walked in the door. To be fair, it seemed to be overflowing with empty cans and bottles rather than food waste, but it's still not the best sight to see when you walk into somewhere serving food. And given that it was early on a Saturday night, I was surprised they had run out of some of the options on the menu. The food was better than your average kebab shop takeaway and did feel pretty authentic Middle Eastern. I'd probably go back if I was in the mood for a shwarma as there isn't much else around this area, but it didn't blow me away. -
Shakeel N.
Very very tasty food which is different to the standard affair available from other kebab shops. However some of the dishes are quite pricey, eg a regular mixed kebab is £9.50 and is not enough for two people. It can also be quite slow to get your order if it needs to be prepared and cooked from scratch, but not much slower than other places.
Overall I like it as its much tastier than your usual donner kebab or seekh kebab. -
Angelina B.
I work just around the corner from here and when it opened it quickly became my go to lunch when I didn't bring anything with me. The bread is made there and then for you, the chicken or lamb is tasty and there is a wide variety of salad to go with the wrap that I normally get.
Few times they have short changed me which isn't good, I have to say to them how much I gave them. Can take a while to get your order if its busy but its worth the wait. Late at night there usually isn't much left so have been disappointed with a late finish in work and not being able to get something to take home with me. -
Kate C.
This place came highly recommended by friend and fellow Yelper John M who visits weekly. We were not disappointed. The Kurdish style flat bread was fresh and soft with air pockets denoting it's lightness, the kebabs were grilled to perfection on charcoals and the salad was colourful and crunchy comprising a mix of pickled chillis, black olives, tomato chunks straight off the grill and other fresh ingredients. We added a dollop of garlic sauce, a dod of chilli sauce (clearly homemade) and some hummus to the mix. There are 3 tables and a seated window bar so you can eat this as soon as it is prepared which I recommend. We plan on returning tomorrow after our gym workout!