Hajar’s Shawarma King 42 Leven Street, Edinburgh EH3 9LJ

"The food here is AMAZING and, chips aside, relatively healthy as fast food goes. We've had a few mix ups with remote orders likely due to kitchen staff working frantically to fulfill high demand. Brilliant place though. Wish they'd close the door when you're sitting in as can create a draft near it...assume they're leaving it open in the hope it'll increase footfall. Anyway strongly recommended!"

"Fresh and tasty food and also hala suitable for muslim. The staff is very friendly and the restaurant is located on very beautiful street and are"

"If you love shawarma, shish and chicken wings, look no further than Hajar’s Shawarma King. The shish and chicken wings were cooked on charcoals that make them taste so uniquely chargrilled, I loved it! As we tried the mix grill, we tasted a bit of all of the food, so I can definitely tell some of the meat tasted more unique than others. The chicken wings, and chicken shish had the most flavour, the seasoning with the chared flavours mixed exceptionally well. The shawarma tasted as other shawarma, not very special, but quite nice. I didn't really like the kofta as it felt a bit under seasoned, not too flavoursome. I'd definitely recommend the shish and chicken. The shawarma is nice, but kofta is probably an avoid because the other options were incredible. Customer service = 10 Taste = 8 Value = 10 Overall = 9.5"

"This was our 2nd shawarma (first from here). I got the mixed and my wife got the lamb. Both tasted really nice, however, I was expecting it to be served in a naan but it came in a thin wrap. Still tasty but I loved the naan the first time I had a shawarma. We also ordered fresh baklava but they didn’t taste the freshest but still enjoyable. We sat in and but sadly our table hadn’t been cleaned. Staff were friendly enough. I found it a little expensive but it is near enough city centre so that’s to be expected. Good selection on the menu so if I come again I’ll try something else."

"This was 5* till the shop changed management or workers a few months ago. Used to be a regular with friends until, from my experience and in our opinion, portions, flavors, quality and consistency of food went downhill along some hygiene issues. To add salt to insult, they either forget to add my garlic sauce small sachet to my meal or sneakily started charging extra for it if I ask. Really?! Is that how you're hoping to get extra rich fast? By overcharging customers for what should have come included by default? Don't get me started on how the chicken is now almost always burned and the meat is very very chewy! Card payments stopped because the machine is always down and so is the takeaway's online ordering system where you could get 10% off £30 orders, and has been down for many many weeks (while the more expensive deliveroo is fine - magic!). You can guess why "cash only" would be preferred! Previous rating based on previous management: The best takeaway/shawerma place in Edinburgh and possibly Scotland -period. The bbq chicken is outstanding. Mix grill is consistently made and generous. The flavours are excellent. You will not be disappointed. My only negatives are: -Too much oily fat in their shawerma wraps (perhaps for flavour?). -Some staff are very polite and courteous and the odd ones are not so much (especially when owner is not around). -and you'll find yourself overeating. The first picture is a mix grill at £20 and the second was a diet chicken bbq at £8.50 with fattoush salad in the background. Happy to always order from them and give them although they're not the closest."