HaHistadrut Avenue is a major road in
downtown Haifa and one section has a whole row of shawarma restaurants
bordering each other. Shawarma Hazan is a Haifa institution, allegedly even
inspiring local musicians – the album Legend of Black
Shawarma of trance duo
Infected Mushroom. It has a classic set-up: big skewers and condiments on the
side, where you walk past and point out what you want as you order.
I’m getting a shawarma wrap, rather
than pita, as it is bigger, with onions, spicy sauce, salad, and pickled beets.
You can also take some free condiments from a small ‘salad bar’, which includes
olives, cauliflower, etc. Full anticipation I start eating, but I’m soon
disappointed by the dry and chewy meat, which seems of a remarkably inferior
quality, even for a shawarma place, and has an odd taste. I mainly continue
eating because of a simmer of hope that somewhere down the warp it will get
better. It doesn’t.
VERDICT:
65/100
This shawarma would
have disappointed in the Midwest of the US, so you can imagine how
disappointing it is in Haifa, where there must be so many better options.
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