Tradition meets the exotic at Abu Dhabi’s Shawarma Time restaurant

A new shawarma restaurant in Abu Dhabi has been quietly turning the traditional concept upside down and trimming a lot of the associated fat in the process, offering sandwiches based around unheard-of fillings including hammour, buffalo, turkey and mountain gazelle.

Next month, Shawarma Time, on Najda Street will start offering two more exotic versions: ostrich and goat shawarma.

Each of the shop’s offerings come delicately wrapped in either square-shaped half-wholemeal bread, Lebanese saj bread or thinner Arabic bread.

Adventurous types can also choose between six different sauces, including sweet chilli, Indian masala and tartar.

Since Shawarma Time opened last August, the mountain gazelle meat has been proving the most popular of the exotic meats of offer – particularly with local clientele.

“Thirty per cent of our weekend customers come to sample our gazelle, which is legally sourced from a farm in Al Ain,” explains the managing director, Lilian Banin Joumah.

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Tradition meets the exotic at Abu Dhabi’s Shawarma Time restaurant