Khayyam Kebab Take Away

Summary: need to work on the sauce. Despite the two star review, I’m likely to go back.
I was walking by one night and saw this place packed – mind you, that only requires about 8 people – and figured they must have something going on. I stopped by the next night and was debating between kebab and pizza. In the end I walked away with a veggie bbq kebab and an order of chips and curry sauce.
A veggie kebab can be difficult to pull off, and this one didn’t have much going for it. Fresh veggies, grilled, on a pita: check. But it needs something more. Even with the salad toppings and chili sauce, the whole affair fell flat. This is at least partly because the kebab was not cooked long enough. The undercookedness robs the kebab of the complex grilled flavors and leaves veggies that are sort of watery. It also leaves onions that are pretty raw. I like a good bit of onion, but I still ended up picking them out. Too much raw onion for me.
The curry chips were delicious, but I would think that about almost any curry chips, so they don’t get the third star for the chips. If I had ordered just curry chips and not the pita, then it would have been a three star affair. Alas, the curry sauce was also a little uninspiring. So, here’s what they need: cook the veggie kebab longer, top it with a veggie kebab special sauce to add interest and pull the whole thing together. Meanwhile, the curry sauce should be more like curry and less like gravy.