Shawarma King

Reviews

• Eric Y.

  star star star star star_border 29 May 2026

  Food is good but wait time is bit long. The best mid eastern food I had in town so far.

• Drew R.

  star star star star star_border 29 May 2026

  Cam here after one of my coworker keep raving about this place. It was kind of concerning that during dinner time on a Thursday it was just empty. I just went with it and I walked in and ask if I can just seat at any table. They said yes.
  
  When you walk in the delicious aroma of spices and meat grilling away welcome your, before everyone awkwardly stares at you. There's a lot in this menu, but also a lot of great options here. It's your typical middle eastern food, but also a lot more new stuff I've never seen before.
  
  If you're like me who get overwhelmed with choices, a really great choice would be their king mix. Just a warning, there's a ton of food in the King mix for one, so you might be eating for two in the end. Their food is very flexible, so if there's something you don't like they can remove it. In my case lamb.
  
  There might have been a miscommunication. When my food came, they removed both lamb and beef and all I got was chicken. I wasn't upset. The food was still yummy, but I also didn't get to try the beef.
  
  The rice was nicely made. Very flavorful, and goes well with the shredded chicken. The grill chicken and also the chicken kabob was delicious as well.

• Mimmoon C.

  star star star star_border star_border 26 May 2026

  I'm updating my review, after coming here a couple more times, since my previous 5 star review. In short, the food is still amazing, but their service sucks!
  
  We walked in and saw nobody to seat us, the place looked pretty empty (one table had customer, and another leaving), so we decided to seat ourselves. It seems like every time we come here, there's a different server, and they aren't any better than the last. One of the server came by to our table and gave us menus, as we told her, we already know what we want. She said she'll come back to take our order, but never did. A couple walked in, and sat themselves. Another waitress came by their table, and gave them menus. While they were settling in and ready to order, their waitresses came back and took their order, while we're still sitting her waiting to order. We decided to go up to the front and order, instead of sitting here waiting for them, or we'd never get our food from past experience.
  
  We decide to move to a bigger table closer to the front, being more visible to them. The customer that came after us, received their order before us. After some time of waiting, our appetizers started to come. We ordered the 4 appetizer sampler (Hummus, Flavored Eggplant, Baba Ghanoush, and Falafel), and only 3 of them came. Midway eating our appetizer, I ask her if the other appetizer (Falafel)  was coming. One of the waitresses didn't know, and the other tells her they're out of Falafel. So they ran out of Falafel, and didn't bother telling us. Nor ask us to swap it with another appetizer from the list. Just completely ignored it and didn't give us any option (they charged us for 4 appetizer, but only gave us 3).
  
  We see the chef bring out our King Mix and place it in front of both waitresses. Both waitresses were standing there flirting with some guy, while our food was getting cold right in front of them. We just sit there looking at our food on the counter, and contemplated if we should just get up and get the food ourselves, just like how we went up and ordered. After couple of minutes or so, I kid you not, one of the waitress got startled realizing our food was in front of her. It was like it fell from the sky inf front of her. She picks up our food, and continues to talk. Finally she gives us the food, cold as expected. No utensils to eat the food, no napkins, nor the usual garlic sauces that comes with the platter. The food didn't come with the usual grilled jalapenos that comes with it either. We ask for utensils (plates, forks, etc.), and sauces. After a couple of minutes, she brings us the utensils, and one sauce for both of us. We didn't enjoy our cold food. We overheard the waitress charging the other customer for an appetizer they ordered, but the customer never received!
  
  It's unfortunate that this is our favorite restaurant in Salt Lake City, but the service sucks! After countless bad service, we decided to never dine in, and just order food for take out. Please improve your service by hiring servers that knows what they're doing!

• Jason R.

  star star_border star_border star_border star_border 19 May 2026

  We have been here before and had good food. However this time the service was atrocious. We were there for about 35-40 minutes and finally walked out after only getting water. The server came over quickly and brought water and silverware.  After about five minutes they took our order. We ordered hummus appetizer, platter for two to share, and two mango lassi's.
  
  As we sat there talking,  we saw three or four tables of people (of their ethnicity) come in, be seated, order, and get served their food. Yet, we got nothing. After close to 40 minutes. Nothing had shown up so we headed for the door. One of the food runners looked at me, my wife and already gone out the door, as if to say what happened. I told her that we had received nothing; no appetizer, no food, no drinks. She headed over to the young lady who had been our server to talk to her but by that time I had left. No need to wait that long just to have my wife yell at me because she's hungry.
  
  Edit:  There was no wait to be seated.  So it's not like we spent 20 minutes waiting and then 15 minutes at the table, this was all time spent at the table.

• Austin B.

  star star_border star_border star_border star_border 12 May 2026

  I ordered the chicken but was told they were out. The beef and lamb was disgusting, came with a side of fries, by side I mean @ ten fries. The only good thing about the wrap was it was small. That meant I didn't feel as bad throwing it away when I couldn't eat it. When I opened the to go box and saw how small it was I was shocked that the price was almost $10.
  
  Never coming back.