Al Taib Grill

Very hearty food, large portions and service with a smile — combined with $ 10 combos, it is a definite winner.

My husband and I were in Montréal recently and I pretty much shopped until I dropped so I was completely exhausted and my feet hurt so much at the end of the day. It was snowing and really cold out so my husband offered to go get me some meat pies at Arouch because he knows I love meat pies. Anyway, Arouch was closed, and Al Taib was close to Arouch and was open, so he bought a chicken shawarma for him, and a beef shawarma and a piece of baklava for me (because he knows I have a sweet tooth).
The beef shawarma was good, but nothing about it really makes it stand out from other places. I had a bite of my husband’s chicken shawarma and it was amazing. It was so tender and juicy and had a really strong smokey and grilled flavour to it. My husband said that they cut the chicken off the spit and then they threw it on the grill and grilled it before putting it in the shawarma. Why didn’t they do this to the beef? Who knows. The chicken was much yummier than the beef. All ingredients in the shawarma tasted fresh.
I did not like the baklava. There were green pistachio crumbs sprinkled on top, but the nuts used in the baklava tasted like peanuts to me. Yuck. I like my baklava filled with pistachios or almonds, not cheap filler nuts like peanuts.
Overall, chicken shawarma delicious, beef shawarma ok, baklava yuck.