Bay Ridge Kebab House

Bay Ridge Kebab House
(718)238-8866

On the menu cover it says:

People Will Forget What You Said
People Will Forget What You Did
But People Will Never Forget What You Made Them Feel

I wonder what gravestone they stole that little number off of.




Ordered:

Lamb Gyro
Chicken Gyro
Babagonush

The food arrived lukewarm, not unreasonable considering it was thirty degrees out, but very unfortunate. Actually, yes, it is unreasonable for the food to arrive cold. This is delivery folks, you gotta deliver.

The lamb gyro was one of the worst I've ever had. The lamb was dried out, not greasy at all. It had a gross, grainy texture that is hard to explain - more like inferior falafel than lamb. It's sad that a poor little lamb was struck down, only only to be ground into something this undelicious.

The chicken was slightly better, if only because it wasn't ground up. Cold chicken is still good. The first bite I had of the chicken had something hard and gristly in it, the rest was better in texture. The chicken, for the record, was white - my experience with the stuff cut off the big schwarma rolls usually has it brown. Something different, not necessarily bad.

The pita wrap for both was greasy and dried out, you know exactly what I mean - it was stiff and almost translucent, the grease having sunk into the pita. It was a very thin pita, too. I'm not sure if you'd ever call it a pita. I don't mean that in an insulting way, but I'm just theorizing that maybe this is something of a regional variant. A pansified wrap instead of an honest pita.

I liked the babagonush, my wife didn't. We both agreed it was much creamier than what we're used to, something I sort of liked. The bitter eggplant taste wasn't that strong, either. Another plus in my book. It had that sort of smokey eggplant taste, but smothered in creaminess. Eh.

The best part of this meal was the bread accompanying the babagonush. It was a half a bread round, about an inch and half thick, with a shiny crust on both sides. Good and bready and crusty, I wish I could get just htis stuff delivered. Swilled around in the babagonush it was great.