If in Beirut, you might grab some shawarma for lunch as you pass one of the street vendors there. But there is no need to travel to the Middle East to sample authentic Lebanese cuisine. You can get a taste of the shredded meat, slow cooked on a rotating skewer, at Malek Shawarma Mediterranean Café in Amherst, a small restaurant tucked into a block of businesses on East Pleasant Street. Added on February 2, 2018 and last updated 6 years ago