Shawarma Palace

By far the best shawarma in Calgary. Chicken Shawarma is great, great price and very friendly staff

Now this is what I’m talking about. Finally I have found fresh, delicious, mouthwatering Shawarma that reminds me of my years in Montréal. Shish taouk, mediterranean food, pitas… Whatever you want to call it this is what I’ve been looking for. This place has awesome food, gorgeous and polite staff, and enough tables to eat in, but not too many so it didn’t feel like a chain or impersonal.
Taste, quality, value… This place is an easy five star joint. I was actually so busy eating and enjoying myself I forgot to take a picture of the large pita!
It’s a dive. It’s a busy active dive with lineups usually. We spoke to the patrons next to us and the line never stopped the whole time we were there. It’s a little place that can seat probably about 20 people, one washroom… So it’s not the place to take the woman you are trying to impress but… Once you have won her heart… Take her here and enjoy food.
We ordered a large beef and lamb pita and a chicken platter which came with rice and potatoes and salad and fresh sauce… It was such good food.

Still on the hunt for the best Shawarma… and Shawarma Palace is up there. My godchild is just as obsessed with Shawarma as I am so she accompanies me to every Shawarma establishment. Possibly to add to the experience; should I miss something.
Anyway, this place is small. It’s more about the food than the ambience. Which is what I prefer. Don’t get me wrong; the service is great. Just don’t expect to be wowed by the décor or scenery.
It’s straight up tasty food, and served promptly. It is the best I have had so far. My godchild ordered a beef donair and I ordered a chicken donair. Both were incredibly satisfying in both flavor and portion.
I’m all about flavorful and juicy meat and this place is hard to beat when it comes to delicious shawarma!

If you’re look for a big fat meal, get the rice platter, all the meats are delicious, the staff is awesome, freaking love brown people. The food here is great for bulking and I would say lots and lots of carbs, they stack the food real good to the point where you can’t finish it, but it’s definitely worth every single dollar. If you’re around 17^th Ave (The Hood one) hit up shawarma palace, cause these people won’t do you wrong.

‘Large beef, extra meat please!’ is what I always say when I come in. Hidden on International 17^th Ave, this place is one of the gems Calgary has to offer.
For me, I always ask for little sauce cause I think they generally load up on that. Every time I eat here (which is very late), I always taste that little crisp in the beef, which I like. I don’t recall any other shawarma places in this city that have that kind of texture. One of my two favorite shawarma places to go in this city. My only knock on them is that I wish they would put more spice in the beef.

I come here a lot. They are normally open late on weekdays. Always get the #10. It’s amazing. They do have a other things but the choices are limited.

The chicken platter is amazing ! The chicken is always moist. I love their garlic and sweet sauce.

Slightly ghetto. A bunch of what look to be regulars.
A tv above my head blairing. I like it.
If you are afraid of the look of the place i wouldn’t eat here.
The shawarma is fantastic. Just like the newer location in Falconridge.
Yum yum.

I ordered their trio platter which was chicken, beef and lamb with veggies and grape leaves (vine leaves) all in all it was ok. The garlic sauce was not garlicky, i felt i was eating mayo and i find that the spices on the meats were a little on the weak side. The hummus was a bit bland. The grape leaves were good. I also ordered a side of hummus, which was about 500ml they gave me one pita bread! Which i was surprised… One pita bread for a 500ml of hummus? They should include at least three pitas. I actually like Mazaj in downtown… They have amazing garlic sauce and hummus.

Staff is very friendly and donairs are fabulous! Ask for extra sauce as you will need it. Hidden gem in forest lawn!

Ok so those of you familiar with this place know that it is always busy and opened crazy hours to accommodate the cities taxi drivers. The samosas are delicious and cheap and if that’s all you want there’s no need to wait in line.
When it comes to the meat and donairs I’m not a huge fan. They only have 4 spits going which means, due to the high volume the meat doesn’t cook on the spit. They slice it off and fry it. The sweet sauce is also very runny. I prefer a thick sweet sauce. The taste is status quo and the hours rock if you are dying for shawarma at 3am on the weekend this is the place!

Love this place for late night eats. Always good.
Baklava is awesome. Good prices and deals. Staff is awesome.

Delicious food but extremely salty. If it was not that salty I would come back.
The staff were nice. My wife asked them too fry everything including vegetables that goes into shawarma and they did that. (She was pregnant and she was not sure about the vegetables).

Excellent shawarma. Service is fast and the people are friendly.

Best swarama I had in Calgary so far. Get the «Trio» wrap and enjoy: a) the size — this think big as Swartzi’s biceps, b) the taste — yumm — go loaded, no hold back.
The only thing stopping me from givem them the 5 star review was the bathroom’s condish.
Update Jan 25: I think all goof things must come to an end. last visit I wasn’t that impressed. the guy who served me was sweating oven my wrap when he was making it, yuk!

Love this place. Almost always get the large chicken with every thing, with garlic, taheni and hot sauce.

Been going to this place for the past couple years. Never disappointed.
I’ve always ordered beef/​lamb platter and for $ 10.50 tax included. So much food for that price. Much better than shrwama knights or whatever it’s called down on 17^th, plus you get more food. Open late on weekends till 4

Love the sauces. The sweet is really sweet. And the Lamb beef is killer — tastes like real steak and lamb.

Very nice food at a decent price. I had the Chicken Shawarma with rice.
Enjoyed the pickled turnip. I will order this again, and the portions were very good. pictures on the site are accurate for sure.
K

I drove to visit Shawarma Palace on a Saturday Morning, well, MY Saturday morning which turned out to be 12:00 pm.
I ordered their Shawarma and a couple of falafel balls on the side. The Shawarma was adequate in breaking my fast but I have to admit, I’ve had better elsewhere. Still, the chicken was nicely seasoned and their garlic sweet sauce was pleasantly noticeable. The falafel balls on the other hand, could have used more garlic
The service was great. It was prompt but a language barrier kept us from having friendly conversation. No biggie, there was a huge line up and they were patient enough to address my questions.
The décor of the place indicated that Shawarma palace used to be a chain fast food joint. They still serve fast food, but in the more appreciated local sense.