About 5-6 places in my vicinity (within 10-15min driving distance) or along our commute/travel routes, any longer than that is a waste of time imo. Plus a fancy kebab in Nanaimo - though I don’t count that, it wasn’t a typical doner kebab, it was proper roasted lamb, which I personally hate in comparison, but my wife enjoyed it so I can’t call it bad objectively, and they didn’t have anything advertising what they actually sell as we went in seeing the stellar reviews (no pictures just people raving about it and the portion was decent for the meat quality)
Since then I occasionally look at kebab places’ menus wherever we drive in lower mainland and majority don’t even have a typical lamb doner meat, its usually mostly beef and absolutely no lamb in it. Out of the few that do even list it as an option, there’s currently only one on my list of places to try, but the reviews seem to be a bit negative lately.
By comparison, there were about 3-4 separate kebab vans near my commute routes or within 5-10min drive in UK that I’ve frequented over the years, plus tried another 4-5 shops and out of those only couple of shops that changed management had become shit. According my family members still there, one even managed to turn it back around.
Funny story; when we visited NYC several years back, I decided to check whether the situation is any better. It surprisingly wasn’t, there was only one place that seemed to serve something I could compare to UK meat or portion wise according to reviews and it was completely out of our way (we only had a few days, all walking/public transport) so unfortunately didn’t get to try. Also apparently it was some guy who kept going out of business and having to start new restaurants again, so he was known to people who enjoy a good kebab, which is a bit of shame.
About 5-6 places in my vicinity (within 10-15min driving distance) or along our commute/travel routes, any longer than that is a waste of time imo. Plus a fancy kebab in Nanaimo - though I don’t count that, it wasn’t a typical doner kebab, it was proper roasted lamb, which I personally hate in comparison, but my wife enjoyed it so I can’t call it bad objectively, and they didn’t have anything advertising what they actually sell as we went in seeing the stellar reviews (no pictures just people raving about it and the portion was decent for the meat quality)
Since then I occasionally look at kebab places’ menus wherever we drive in lower mainland and majority don’t even have a typical lamb doner meat, its usually mostly beef and absolutely no lamb in it. Out of the few that do even list it as an option, there’s currently only one on my list of places to try, but the reviews seem to be a bit negative lately.
By comparison, there were about 3-4 separate kebab vans near my commute routes or within 5-10min drive in UK that I’ve frequented over the years, plus tried another 4-5 shops and out of those only couple of shops that changed management had become shit. According my family members still there, one even managed to turn it back around.
Funny story; when we visited NYC several years back, I decided to check whether the situation is any better. It surprisingly wasn’t, there was only one place that seemed to serve something I could compare to UK meat or portion wise according to reviews and it was completely out of our way (we only had a few days, all walking/public transport) so unfortunately didn’t get to try. Also apparently it was some guy who kept going out of business and having to start new restaurants again, so he was known to people who enjoy a good kebab, which is a bit of shame.