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| - Pita Jungle has nothing to fear from these guys.
Warning signs: It's what should be prime dinner time at 6 PM and there's nobody in the place - no customers, no staff. We go in to order take-out and it looks closed, if not abandoned, with the shawarma cooker and flat top grills both empty and cold.
A couple of staffers do appear from the back and one methodically fills a couple of $10 chicken-gyro combo platters from hotel pans without much chatter. (In case you might have forgotten, this isn't Chipotle!) We have to ask for garnishes, which are doled out in very small portions. We're offered a taste of the hot sauce - it is very hot, but quite tasty - and get a garnish of babaganoush on the platter, then "famous" white sauce and a little hot.
When we got home and dug in, the finely-chopped or shredded chicken reminded me of tuna salad. The gyro meat didn't remind me of anything. The orange (Basmati?) rice was as flavorless as the famous white (garlic? tzatziki? diluted mayo?) sauce. At least the hot sauce had some flavor and the pita wedges were soft. It was filling, but nothing else.
Bottom line: We should have heeded the warning of the empty store and headed elsewhere. For about the same price as HG we could have each gotten 3 In-n-Out double-doubles, 2 veggie-filled footlongs from Subway, or a Filiberto's combo; for a couple bucks more a signature entree from the Pita Jungle just down the street. Too bad Khyber Halal isn't in the neighborhood.
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