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| - Nice addition to the Bayview and Sheppard area. This store replaced Burger Hut, which had been there as long as I can remember.
Shatter Abbas Express serves Persian style BBQ skewers, as well as various stews and dips. They also have a few burgers/hot dogs/sandwiches for those who want that kind of thing.
It's very clean inside, and there are a few tables that seat about four people each. You go up to the counter and order, and then they make your food. Skewers are made to order. It's kinda cool. You can stand at the counter and watch them cook the skewers. One very unique thing I've never seen at any other Persian restaurant is that where they have their takeout forks and napkins and stuff, they have little packets of sumac (a reddish spice powder with a smokey sour taste?) Very cool.
Their cheapest skewer meal at $9.99, the koobideh (a mix of ground lamb and beef), comes with two fairly large skewers, a roasted tomato, and rice (or half rice and half salad). I got half rice, half salad. My skewers, rice, and tomato were put into a big square takeout box, and it was full. It was quite amusing, because my full box of rice was only "half" of the regular portion of rice. They put my salad in another takeout box. This takeout box is the typical rectangular takeout box (or large size takeout box). The salad was lettuce based and then cucumber slices, cherry tomatoes, red onions, red cabbage and lemon slices were placed on top. Thousand Island served on the side (This was the tiniest portion of salad dressing for the largest "half" salad I've ever seen). Everything was very fresh and very flavorful. A very good meal for a very good price. Oh. I saw a guy ask for some kind of flatbread and I asked how I could get one as well. They just added it to my box for free! Nice. Not fresh (came out of a bag), but still very tasty.
Sometimes, the people behind the counter can't hear (or don't respond), but the man who was grilling the skewers was really friendly, and he answered all our questions. It is possible that some of the people behind the counter don't speak much English, but they definitely have fluent English speakers to serve you. Huzzah.
Seeing as that meal was very easily split up into three meals, at $9.99+tax, a surprisingly cheap eat in a not very cheap area.
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