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Agbab shawarma/David Rosenthal
There are few cases, and even extremely rare, that you type an address into Google and it will insist on giving you the name of a restaurant and not of the street itself.
And here, every time you try to type "Herzl 2 Rishon Lezion" you will get the address of the shawarma that has become an institution over the years.
But wait, Herzl 2 is no longer in Herzl 2. It moved to a gas station on Freiman Street.
What to do?
Type in the stupid phrase "Herzl Street 2" or simply go there and discover that world orders have changed.
For all the columns of "Rosie HaToam"
about a month ago, Herzl 2 was finally displaced from the mother base and another shawarma was established in its place - Agbaba, "from Shawarma Shemesh House".
Now, before we continue, Shawarma Shemesh also has a story - the original is the one in Jabotinsky in Ramat Gan, and it also has a branch in the Stock Exchange complex.
It is not the same Shemesh, but a chain that operates two other locations, in Nes Ziona and Rehovot, where, completely coincidentally, it is also located on Herzl Street.
If only our man-man with the beard had discovered that his announcement at the Basel Congress would lead to the establishment of shawarmas in the streets named after him, he would surely be extremely proud.
If you like, it's not a fairy tale.
Not even a cosmetic change.
Agbab shawarma/David Rosenthal
Agbaba's pretension should be appreciated.
They entered with the same product the slot of one of the famous shawarmas in the region - and this is something that requires a lot of courage
But leave your confusions, we are here to talk about what is, not what is not.
Agbaba's pretension should be appreciated.
If they had opened a falafel or pizza business there, they would have created a different niche.
Instead, they entered with the same product in the slot of one of the famous shawarmas in the region - and this is something that requires a lot of courage, even before we even started talking about the difficult battle expected of them at Google.
I arrived at Herzl 2 and the feeling was strange.
The building is the same building, it hasn't even been renovated.
One went out, the other went in.
There weren't too many people, it must be the early hour, 11:30.
Agbaba has two wheels - one a calf and the other a piglet.
The constitution of this section (page 14, section 2.27) states that in cases of two types of sikhs one must take pita with veal (NIS 45) and another half portion of the other species, usually turkey but in this case a pullet (NIS 30).
I sat down and let's hit.
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Only two saplings, one of which is a chick.
Agbab shawarma/David Rosenthal
There is no sensation, no show, no party in the mouth.
And when you arrive at Herzl 2, on a conscious level you expect a party
We start from the light to the heavy (this is another article in the constitution) - half the chicken portion.
I have yet to come across a chicken shawarma that would be wow, and that was fine too, the maximum level that a shawarma of this variety can reach.
The quantity in relation to half a dish was respectable and all in all it pretty much closed a corner, even before the main dish.
And now, to the calf.
Here too, the quantity is nice, but veal shawarma requires creativity and imagination - here seasoning, there pine nuts, here refined sourness, there tenderness and finely chopped meat.
All these are not in Agbaba.
The shawarma is very generic.
She's not bad, but far from amazing.
There is no sensation, no show, no party in the mouth.
And when you arrive at Herzl 2, on a conscious level you expect a party.
So how did it come out?
In the KMA index (quantity-price-quality, from 1 to 10) the quantity was reasonable plus the price as well. As for the quality, I had a problem.
Shawarma Agbaba stepped into big shoes and failed to deliver the goods. I have eaten good and bad shawarmas, it is In a good place in the middle, and that's exactly its problem. When you arrive at such a central location, you have to live up to expectations, but the experience was that of a very generic place, without a hint of innovation. The experience of arriving at such a well-known address as Herzl 2 had to be different. In this respect, Agbaba does not deliver the goods. Score 7.
A satisfying half portion.
Agbab shawarma/David Rosenthal
In the end, it was kind, but we are no longer in this place.
The shawarma scene has evolved so much, we deserve more.
On the other hand, this is a fairly new place, it has time to improve - and the hope is that it will indeed be so.
Agave shawarma.
Herzl 2, Rishon Lezion
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