I just had the most expensive shawerma I have ever had in Kuwait. I tried this new shawerma place that opened near Restaurant Street (Share3 al Mata3em) called Shawermer. I had just left Sajj House because they were packed and was heading to get shawerma from Dodo when I saw this place and decided to try it out.
When I walked in I noticed they had two large shawerma skewers (one meat and one chicken) laid out horizontally over a charcoal grill. That grabbed my attention, I thought it was pretty original since I had never seen a shawerma skewer laid out like that. So I proceeded to order two chicken shawermas and a coke. The cashier then tells me he wants 900fils. I was like how much is one shawerma? He tells me 400fils. I was like “fuckin A” this is either going to be one really large sandwich or one unbelievably amazing shawerma.
So I stood by the horizontal shawerma skewers waiting to see how the chef was planning on cutting it up when I noticed some guy at the other side of the kitchen taking already cut up shawerma from a metal container and placing it into my sajj bread. I was like what the fuck? The shawerma isn’t even freshly cut!? I was like whatever, lets not judge anything before trying the shawerma. The guy finishes heating up my two shawermas and puts them in a bag and gives it to me with a small 250ml can of Pepsi (I really hate these cans!). I leave the place, go out into my car and decide to eat the shawermas there while they were still hot.
My first reaction was what the hell!? This shawerma had the worst tasting garlic ever. Like way worse than Kurdo’s garlic which I used to count as the lowest of the low when it came to garlic. Now out of the blue Shawermer was able to smash the charts with this absolutely horrendous tasting garlic. I didn’t know what it tasted closer to, cough medicine or tooth paste. Actually what am I saying, I would rather have cough medicine mixed with tooth paste and kitchen soap over a spoonful of this garlic.
So I finished up my two sandwiches and just sat in my car bewildered at what this place was thinking charging people 400fils for a shawerma that tasted like something you can find under your kitchen sink. Then I looked around and noticed the place didn’t look like it was doing any good which is a good thing. It was a Wednesday night and every other restaurant on the street was packed and this place was empty which put a smile on my face.
Final score, half a star out of a possible five. Like Shoo? Shawerma, it gets half a star because if there was a nuclear holocaust and all the food in the whole world got infected with radiation and Shawermer miraculously had radiation free shawermas, then I wouldn’t mind having one.
31 replies on “Shawerma Review: Shawermer”
hahaha it even says like shawerma 3al faham in arabic wtf that’s not even shawerma anymore if it’s cooked like that.
somebody plz bring bedo here 🙁
Finally a review !! thx mark ur reviews are really cool. We actually have this shawermer restaurant in egypt, At first I thought ours was a ripoff ( I thought to myself, maybe some egyptian sa3eedi guy saw it while he was working in kuwait and came back and opened one with the same name here) but the color and design are identical ( too much brain power required , no sa3eedi can do it ).As far as the whole taste thing , I guess the one in egypt is better cuz its located in a wealthy area with high rent so probably needs alot of customers to stay open, thus the shawerma must be good, I haven’t tasted it yet but maybe i’ll get back to u on it, so that u could make some sort of an international comparison ( That’ll be cool).Finally , sorry for the long comment or any typos ( I had to type it fast)
My best Shawarma ever was at BarBar in Lebanon .. that’s it end of story 🙂
wtf? fee minhom wayed! Go to Jahra, man!
“Actually what am I saying, I would rather have cough medicine mixed with tooth paste and kitchen soap over a spoonful of this garlic” EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWW!! :p
“if there was a nuclear holocaust and all the food in the whole world got infected with radiation and Shawermer miraculously had radiation free shawermas, then I wouldn’t mind having one”
And i thought i was the weirdest person on gods green earth ! :p
Did you guys realise this is Mark’s worst review ever, P.S. i never go to share3 almata3em all their food are bad.
Khalil actually Shoo? Shawerma got a similar bad review.
well done Mark* love your reviews
sorry Mark thought it was 1 star and half
haha… man you seem to be going to a lot of the bad shawarma places these days!
lol, they should call u shark instead of mark dude! u r obsessed with shawerma there’s a new shawerma restaurant at jabriya called Shawermati I have tried it last week the chicken shwerma is good except that the garlic was very little u have to ask to but s0me more except for that the shawerma was perfect and they serve it with sajj bread u gotta try it 😉
I had it a couple of days ago and really liked it. Beef, no onion, no garlic. Although the guy mentioned they don’t use garlic or something to that effect.
“if there was a nuclear holocaust and all the food in the whole world got infected with radiation and Shawermer miraculously had radiation free shawermas, then I wouldn’t mind having one.”
earlier….
“So I finished up my two sandwiches”
dude, lol!
Anyway, have u tried alwaly at Nuzha coop? I remember having them back when I was in highschool and they were excellent back then. The negative is the amount of beardos there, but u should check it out and review it!
Also, not sure if u saw my earlier comment, we were on the same flight to Beirut on the 27th I think, in the small stuffy room before boarding…dont know what u look like though
to be able to review the shawerma fairly i HAVE to finish eating them.. the price i have to pay for this blog lol
I was gonna reply to your comment earlier but i was in lebanon and on dialup and it didnt work out lol
me and nat stood next to the door at first then we sat outside on the side near the window. i am tall, white boy with shaved head and a goatee, nat is shorter, blondish hair and has an eyebrow piercing. u should pass by the bloggers meetup tomorrow..
one day…we’re jst gna visit u at the hospital =P
“to be able to review the shawerma fairly i HAVE to finish eating them.. the price i have to pay for this blog lol”
You had to eat TWO to know how bad they were??? Dying laughing . . .
mark, i recommend try something else too that will get you addicted .Perhaps , hummus would be a good idea. the place at hawally known as Canary is the best resturant i know of that makes Hummus.
I haven’t seen anybody like that restraunt!
I would give there shawerma 1/4 star
ali the hommous at canary is ok, nothing special. the hommous at bourj al 7amam is better although thinking about it now i can’t think of any place in kuwait that has really amazing hommous. hmm maybe pizza hut..
I think it’s pretty pointless to comment (and subsequently base the whole review) on shit like Garlic. The servings of Garlic are dependent on individual taste.
Some people like to douse their stuff with as much garnish as possible, others like small hints of the stuff.
That’s not subjective reviewing Mark!
Go into the place, bitch them out, tell them you want a shawerma without the dollops of disgusting garlic – and then write a review.
It would be like me going into Johnny Rockets ; the waiter serving me my favorite burger with a new relish (which I end up hating) – then me making my whole review based on the relish!
Come on dude. You’ve done much better reviews than that.
Toxy a shawerma is made of 3 things, chicken, garlic and bread. if either of these is fucked up the whole thing is fucked up. If you have ever had a shawerma before you would know you can’t have it without garlic. So going back there again and ordering a shawerma without garlic would probably leave them with a score of 0 since you can’t have shawerma without garlic.
If you think you can review better then please do. If you don’t like my reviews thats your opinion. This review is based on MY taste so if I give it half a star its because I think its worth half a star. If you give the place 5 stars it doesn’t make the shawerma taste better for me.
Reviews are based on personal opinions so don’t tell me how I should rate stuff.
There are different types of shawerma by the way; there are lamb, beef, chicken and turkey, and each might have different ingredients such as tomatoes, onions, t7eeneh… etc, and not all of them necessarily have galic. However, you’re basically right, if one of the ingredients isn’t good like using GM tomatoes for example, then yeah, the sandwich is an abomination!
Mark, all I’m saying, is the whole review is about Garlic – a peripheral item.
What about the meat / chicken and the bread? Was the meat well cooked? Was it rubbery / too oily? What about the bread (too soft / dry ) tasted like shoes?
Don’t you think the dude who owns that restaurant would be pretty upset if you didn’t even give him a proper critical review?
It’s like me coming onto 248, looking at the first post and saying the whole blog is about fizzy drinks.
You may be right (about it being the worst shit you have ever tasted) but at least give the place a dignified, critical review.
That’s someones livelihood after all.
toxy the whole review was about how the shawerma was crap because the garlic was the worst garlic i had ever tasted. whats wrong with that? Nothing because to me the garlic is as important as the chicken and the bread in a shawerma sandwich.
it was also the most expensive shawerma in kuwait so who cares if the chicken wasn’t greasy or if the bread was soggy, the garlic was so bad and the price so high that the other stuff didn’t matter anymore. you think if the chicken was good it would have made a difference? it wouldn’t and didn’t.
this is my review, if you don’t like the style then fine but as i said don’t come and tell me how to review the food i eat. I have different requirements then you, I have a different expectation in food then you. this is the internet and you have a blog so you can always go have the shawerma yourself and right a better review. whats stopping you?
btw it was nice meeting you at the bloggers meeting tonight.
Mark, I wasn’t there!
I had some work to finish.
Wtf!
you were like sitting right next to me, had a sticker with Toxy written on it stuck on your shirt.
Mark I think you want the best place for shawarma
exactly chicken shawarma
I think best place of that is Al Faroj res.
in the begining of res. st. (shar3 al ma6a3em)
try Maxican 9aj meal 😉
and give me you reviwe
bye
(sorry for bad english)
i was in Kuwait from 1980 to 1982, great people there. I found a place in Salmia (bad spelling) on a side street, that had great chicken shawarmas, I miss that to this day. they would roast the chicken (I think with lemons inside) in a big glass rotiserie (a lot of chickens at one time) then all the meat would be cut of the bone and stacked on another rotiserie and they would keep pouring some kind of juices over it. when we ordered the shawarmas, they would be cut fresh from the rotiserie and placed in pita bread. I sure like to find the receipe for that.
Shawermer is actually an Egyptian chain… and I don’t know what went wrong with the one in Kuwait but here in Egypt it’s one of the best. I personally love it’s taste, and I think I can tell a good shawerma from a bad one… Maybe give it a try anytime you’re in town 😀