Cedars Restaurant & Deli

We’ve been fans of Cedars for many years. At an open-​house for 30 people, we purchased a mixture of beef donairs, chicken shawarmas and falafel pitas with an assorted tray and hummus, tzatziki and baba ghanoush. Everything including the bakalava dessert was a hit with our guests. The portions are large and the price is reasonable.
No only is the food excellent, the owner and his team of attentive staff offer truly amazing customer service.
Highly recommend Cedars!
¹⁰⁄₁₀ every time.

Love coming here for a quick meal or for catering trays. The staff are so friendly and helpful and the food is fresh and delicious.

So, I want to share with you my observation that there are falafel balls that are big and mushy on the inside and falafel balls that are smaller and crispy on the outside and tender on the inside.
This place has the smaller, crispier falafels, which are delicious in a falafel sandwich brimming with pickled turnip, lettuce, tomatoes, hot peppers and the sauce of your choice. I usually get tahini and tzatziki along with a squirt of hot sauce. I like mine hot!!! You can choose a regular or large size sandwich. The regular is perfect, especially if you add some tabbouleh salad and for dessert some baklava.
There’s lots on the menu — beef donairs, chicken shawarmas, vine leaves, spinach phyllos — all those delicious things you’re craving!

Cedars really is as good as it gets. If you’re looking for a quick, healthy bite after work or catering for the office, Cedars always has a fresh selection with a taste unlike anywhere else in the city. The owners are fantastic and their staff always gives 110% in their service. I have been eating at Cedars for years and I’ve recently started ordering for office lunches which has been a huge hit. Try everything they have at least once, you won’t be disappointed!

I have been told you can’t make a fair judgement of the best donair in the city until you try it here. Cedar’s is a nice little eat in shop right on Edmonton trail in quiet Tuxedo. The exterior’s rather large friendly sign invites you in.
First, the sandwiches come in three sizes (small, regular, and jumbo) served on small and large pita wraps. The bigger you go, the more meat you get. I opted for the regular so as not to put pressure on my newly looser fitting pants. Ordering a classic beef donair, I loaded it with both the garlic and sweet sauce, and all the veggies. It was quite a heft sandwich.
Flavour… Yum, yum, delicious! The meat was a gene our helping and had great flavour on its own, the veggies especially the pickled turnip, peppers, and cucumber were bursting with juicy flavour. Hints of sweet, sour, salty, and heat were in each bite.
Still really hard to say, Jimmy’s or Cedar’s — you are definitely in for a treat. I would give Cedar’s the slight edge when it comes to the veggies, price, and payment. And Jimmy’s the slight edge on the meat and sauce. Both amazing donairs, and this will definitely be on the list of go tos.

Not the same quality chicken shawarmas as you would get from the Panorama location. The veggies looked tired, and the taste was slightly off.

Bright, clean place in a residential area, on a busy main road. Has a few parking spots in front.
The salad bar seemed fresh but the desserts is what caught my eye, so got the pistachio baklava and a triangle one that was a bit more sweeter, with honey but just right. Very fluffy and flaky.
No amex here.
they also offer catering too, with some nice menus.

All steamer kept and prepared by non ethnic workers. The family has spread to thin to all 5 locations leaving the quality to go downhill. The premade out of store products still have that lebanese quality but the rest is a far cry from tlwhat cedars deli started out as on 8^th ave serving the best beef shwarama. You wont find bewf shwarama anywhere at the edmonton location

Good place with good food. The staffs are nice. Orders didn’t take long at all to take and make. The mixed shawarma was amazing. There are lots of desserts to choose from, including a vast selection of baklavas.
Definite repeat!!!

I’ve been to many Mediterranean /​Donair /​Shawarma places before but this one is up there in the top five in the city, in my opinion. I’ve driven by this place almost daily but I’ve never thought twice to stop in. It’s in a really unassuming area, beside a gas station.
I go in there for lunch and it’s packed. The line up is literally to the entrance. Even though there were about 15 people in front of me, the line went quite fast. I only had to wait about 5 – 6 minutes before I got to order. The staff are friendly and efficient. They don’t feel the need to rush you but their secret is in the amount of people they have working behind the counter.
I ordered the beef donair «sandwich». I was quite happy with the fresheness of the ingredients. Everything tasted good. The meat could have been a bit more flavourful but that’s just being really critical. The sweet sauce was the perfect consistency. It wasn’t watered down or too liquid. Not one spill of sauce, even though I get extra sauce all the time.
I’ll be back for sure!

Great food and the staff are super friendly. I’ve ordered food here many times and never had a bad experience.

Went for a quick lunch upon Unilocal’s recommendation. Yet another restaurant worth the buzz,
The place is Full during lunch hour, service line is very professional and fast. Their shawarma rap taste brilliant. Light, good texture, and delicious, and doesn’t have that annoying strong garlic taste in their garlic sauce. Unfortunately I ordered to-​go, so no pictures this time.

I love this place and it is always my Go To when we are at Market Mall and need a bite.
Have been to this location a few times. in fact tried my first ever Falafel here and loved it immediately!
I love the tabbouleh salad and more recently tried the chicken shwarma. Holy Huge Batman. Couldn’t finish it even though it was delicious. And great prices. My meal (which I shared) consisted of tabbouleh salad, chicken schwarma & a couple pieces of baklava for like $ 12.
The service is fabulous here… they are very friendly and helpful. Make sure you come hungry!

Of all of the Donair and Schwarma places in town, I just love this one.
They people are fast, efficient, and keep the food fresh and hot. I was simply amazed by how quickly they got me a fresh chicken schwarma ready for me, complete with an impressive amount of veggies and well seasoned meat.
Pricing is actually much lower than most places in town I’ve been in ($ 7 for a full wrap sandwich??? Wow.), and the menu and meats are extensive and well covered. I pretty much do have to come back to try the rest of the wraps soon.
Btw, there’s not too much parking, so be ready to park on the street around lunch. Plenty of seating though inside and out, and it’s just a pleasant vibe all around the second you walk in.
Thanks people for an excellent lunch!

Very good Libanese Food… It was just Delicious!.. I went there for lunch and I had the Beef Wrap and it was Great… I can’t wait to go back there and try other things of the menu… In Addition, the service was Excellent… I Definitely recommend this place 100%…

Just wanted to reiterate how much I love Cedars deli, and that’s pretty much all. Yesterday I was in grabbing a couple of falafel wraps, and there were some obnoxious gentleman in front of me who obviously had never tried Mediterranean eats before. The staff were incredibly patient, explaining what was in everything and being total champs.
While I was ordering my two falafel wraps, the gentleman making my delicious wraps suddenly demanded, «Who is the other one for?» In my head, this would proceed to turn into a Pulp Fiction moment…
«DESCRIBE WHAT MARCELLUS WALLACE… LOOKS LIKE!»
*stuttering exchange involving guns occurs*
«DOES…HE… LOOK… LIKE… A… BITCH?!»
Of course, this isn’t what actually happened. I told him it was for my mom, and they wrote MOM on the other falafel which was quite cute and helpful.
I enjoy all of my experiences at Cedar’s Deli. The falafel is amazing, the salads taste fresh, and they prioritize customer service.

Ah Cedars… This was once a favourite hotspot for me and my coworkers when I worked for an online company that’s changed it’s name a dozen times. Tip: Getting into the habit of eating 6 of Cedar’s Falafel balls and your permeating garlic smell will surely squash any chances you have @ an office romance!
Recently I decided to hit Cedar’s again on a whim and craving for their Mediterranean goodness. Super friendly folks that will literally HOOK you up with the good stuff. Most donair and shawarma shops are like Vietnamese joints where the fare is starting to be average, but Cedar’s is still a cut above. Fresh ingredients, well seasoned meats, and hefty servings. And I agree with everyone, the price is great and for a few dollars change, you can literally walk away with a Donair the size of Popeye’s forearm: D

QUESTION: What’s the size of a small dog or a young child’s arm but is much more legal to consume?
ANSWER: A donair from this place.
Their donairs are massive. Their donair sauce is like angels weeping on your tongue. They are friendly, courteous and sometimes call you «boss».
You can also put pickles in your donair and they won’t even make fun of you for being whiter than a snowstorm. They’re just happy you stopped by.
Fresh food, big portions, reasonable prices, great ownership. If you’re on Edmonton trail and your stomach is rumblin’ for some shwarma, pull in and get happy.

Cheap shawarma for everyone! Yaaayyy!!! :-)
People at the counter are friendly and working like robots slicing and wrapping and packing and asking you about the ingredients and… well, like it always happens at a busy shawarma place, popular between the locals.
All the social backgrounds are welcome, so you can see some creative director and a bunch of other office high’s sitting at the table next to a gang of painters or gas pump workers. Everyone happy chewing those immense wraps of shawarma, talking about their work-​related stuff.
I like that false feeling of social equality leveraged against a pita stuffed with meat cuts mixed with vegetables.
Cedars was one of my default lunch destinations for almost 10 months I stayed in Calgary and failed me just twice — when their tiny parking lot was packed and the rest was covered with piles of snow. But I don’t mind, it was my bad to go there at 12 — the place was already packed starting at like 11:30…
Hey, I even bought there a pack of mate — «Cruz de Malta» — what else can you ask from a shawarma place? :-)

My favorite shawarma in the city. Every wrap is huge and loaded with a handsome portion of meat (or falafel, if you’re going vegetarian) and veggies. Oh and the veggies… Most shops don’t have a great selection of toppings to choose from, but Cedar’s has a «subway-​like» table full of stuff to pick.
The falafel and shawarma wraps are already big enough, but if you have a bigger stomach their platters are just amazing. Its the same as a wrap, but on a plate with rice and pita thrown in.
Its quite busy during the lunch rush, but you usually don’t wait too long. Prices are typical for what usually sells around Calgary. So considering these wraps are huge, you get a great value.