Middle Eastern street food
Pita-wrapped grilled meats
Middle Eastern street food encompasses portable dishes sold from stalls, carts, and small shops across the region—falafel, shawarma, kebabs, flatbreads, and dips eaten on the go.
These foods share characteristics: heavily spiced, often grilled or fried, served in or with bread, accompanied by tahini, garlic sauce, or pickled vegetables.
We grabbed shawarma from a street vendor.
The category has become globally popular, with Middle Eastern street food now common in Western cities.
- falafelFried spiced legume ball
- shawarmaCarved rotating-spit meat
- pita pocketFlatbread with interior pouch
- hummusMashed chickpea spread
- pitaHollow Middle Eastern bread
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