Shawarma King

The food was decent, pretty tasty even, but there was a long strand of hair in one of the sauces. When I brought it to the attention of the brother behind the counter he simply pulled it out and dropped it on the floor. If it wasn't for us traveling and not knowing our way around we would have went somewhere else.

The chicken in the chicken shawarma platter we ordered was hard and cold. The garlic mayo sauce had wayyy too much garlic. With all the shawarma choices in the area, I rank this toward the bottom.

Excellent food with large portions.

food is good....But a little pricey....

Tastes good

Good food. Great staff. Enjoyed our meal. Recommended.

I have been a regular take-out customer of their restaurant for the past few months and I've had a great experience. The food was always warm and anywhere from satisfactory to excellent. I read the article about the health violations but have found their food always to be clean (probably because I'm a recent customer and they must have changed their ways in recent times). I have never noticed poor hygiene or preparation in the food I've ordered. This place specializes in take out and is one of the busiest delivery restaurants in Ottawa. Tip: For delivery, pay in cash (instead of INTERAC) and your order will arrive faster. Ordering during non-peak times will also allow you to get your order more quickly.

Remember - Cited for Food/Health vioalations. Not once, but many times. Halal food? Apparently. It's a partnership I think, and one of the owners is very rude and abnoxious. If you have a $10 in your hand, he'll ring up $10.00. If you have $20.00 in your hand, he'll see it and ring up $15.00 for a plate of chicken shawarma and a can of pepsi. I guess a can of pepsi is now $3.00!

Shawarma King cited for health violations July 29, 2004 By: James Gordon Source: The Ottawa Citizen Fourteen Ottawa restaurants have, according to this story, collected 26 tickets for health violations since 2003, for offences ranging from smoking during meal preparation to offering hazardous foods for sale. The story says that restaurant inspection documents obtained by the Citizen show the highest fines over the past two years went to the Shawarma King restaurant at 395 Bank St. and Hong Kong Chinese Take Out at 1-800 Hunt Club Rd., totalling $920 and $1,000, respectively. The latter racked up six provincial offence notices. In one report, an inspector writes that chicken was being thawed on the floor and a man was smoking in the kitchen while working above food. The city's manager of environmental health, Siobhan Kearns-Shannon, was cited as saying that while restaurants usually comply after being fined, it takes two or three bad inspections to get to that point, adding, "We're big believers in education and promotion. We've got all kinds of of different strategies we utilize, and the ticket is the last, final resort." Ms. Kearns-Shannon argued that some restaurants used to consider the fines "just a part of doing business" when the tickets were especially insignificant prior to 2002. That doesn't seem to be the case now that the fines have been raised by the province. The highest fine between 1998 and 2000 was $250 dollars for the infraction, "maintain hazardous foods at internal temperatures between 5 C and 60 C." By comparison, the Ottawa Flying Club got a $460 fine for the same infraction last year.

They r really rude people when u talk to them, and when they give delivery other than homes, they dont put any fork or spoon and they forget even if u ask them to put and still they act really rude, but since the food is really awsom i keep calling them, and it makes u really full for a whole lot time.

Definitely the best shawarma place.. I been to.

tasty sharma with no delivery option. If u guys able to delivery sharma's that would be more lively

I was planning for a party and I phone the restaurant to see what kind of special they have if they have any but the guy that answer the phone was not acomomodated nor friendly at all he keep saying he was very busy you what I think so be it be busy but I wont bother to go and buy thier food. It was 8:40 am when I phoned.

Good shawarma, and lebanese food all around. Says that it is halal and zabihah.