Dine and Dish: Kabab City in northeast Fresno

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Kabab City astatine 1st and Nees successful northeast Fresno wants to beryllium your spot for a sensation of the Middle East.

"We privation to enactment retired foods to amusement antithetic cultures, our civilization that radical tin experience," says co-owner Tonny Yanni. "We similar to bash everything caller and however similar we similar to devour it."

You'll usually find Yanni astatine the Merced location, but we met him successful Fresno.

"We privation everything to beryllium delicious," helium said.

The unit couldn't hold to amusement america their chickenhearted shawarma skewer.

"We hand-cut a skinless chickenhearted bosom successful the backmost and we play this up by hand," Yanni said. "We really got these skewers from Jordan, Amman. They were sent implicit here. They're not precise communal implicit here. For first-time reactions, it's awesome."

Savory spices, cleanable with the pilaf and hummus.

"We got our homemade hummus," Yanni said. "We navigator our garbanzo beans successful house, mixed it with the tahini and it goes alongside. Hummus is everything."

You don't conscionable travel for the kabab.

"This is our chickenhearted shawarma pizza," Yanni said. "We person our guys travel successful the greeting to really marque the dough from scratch. They'll premix it up, chopped it up."

Garlic condiment is drizzled connected top. Traditionally, you'd telephone this manakish. It's delicious by immoderate name.

That accepted oven is perpetually cooking and puffing up pita bread.

"Back location implicit there, they person akin benignant ovens wherever they marque their pitas and antithetic types of breads," Yanni said.

If you're not definite what you want, you tin ever effort a premix of meats.

"The combo meal volition travel with a skewer of our beef kabab that we marque present successful house," Yanni said. "Our kafta, which is simply a premix of lamb and beef. It's awesome. And past our chickenhearted skewer."

Just rip disconnected a portion of pita, drawback a portion of nutrient and premix with hummus and ail condiment and you're each set.

"It's bully to get a repast that you are going to bask for the dollar that you enactment truthful hard to enactment out," Yanni said.

Kabab City has six Valley locations.

"If you haven't been here, we person truly bully food," Yanni said. "We person a chill atmosphere, and it'll beryllium a bully acquisition to effort thing different."

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