ybocher, you know I don’t be eatin’ that shawarma stuff. Although I hear the Black Hebrews make a fine tofu shawarma. As far as the ubiquitous falafel, I enjoy Moshiko on Ben Yehudah, both for the quality of its food and the comforting images of fat, hairy Moroccans with enormous gold Stars of David buried in the verdant forest of chest hair and their ass crack showing that the name “Moshiko” evokes. People tell me Melekh ha-Falafel v’Shawarma is better, but I dispute this mightily. I been to the mountain. I heard the word.

And, in any case, you can always get a pita stuffed with excellent falafel, salat and hummus from Taami.