OMG Shawarma

OMG Is the Newest Place for a Very Good Shawarma | Eater NY

"Coming from Effy Maimon, the owner of a hairdressing salon, and launched with Tel Aviv street-food pro Ziv Gerti, I found the spot almost comically small — a wedge-shaped counter with two spinning shawarmas, relishes, sauces, pickled vegetables and other accompaniments displayed behind glass, and a daily selection of fried vegetables on the counter that can be added to a pita, hero, or bowl (priced $17, $20, $25). The shawarmas are particularly good: the chicken is moist and dotted with bits of caramel-colored skin, while the rarely seen veal is framed with a toupee of lamb fat that melts down the meat and gives it a funkier flavor; the move is to get a combination of the two crammed into a puffy pita. As for condiments and vegetables, I definitely squirt on the tahini and orange amba (a pickled mango sauce) and add one or two deep-fried jalapeños from the daily selection; the counter worker will stuff your pita and serve it with side dishes like cucumber pickles and chopped tomatoes. The house hummus ($12–$20) can be decorated with shawarma, freshly fried falafel, or egg and eggplant to make a sabih, chicken schnitzels are also available, and otherwise the menu is pretty much limited to those formats plus a selection of American or Israeli sodas and juices." - Robert Sietsema