Sharp flavors at Mashawi Grill in Redondo Beach [RESTAURANT REVIEW]
Chicken and beef shawerma with tabbouleh and hummus sides. Photo I was talking with a fluent Arabic speaker and mentioned a new place in North Redondo, the Mashawi Grill. I wondered out loud if Mashawi was the name of the family who owned the place. He informed me that it’s Arabic for a place where the specialty is roasted meat; an American restaurant of this type might be called something like Frank’s Grill. In other words, the name of the restaurant is “Grill Grill,” in English. It’s an emphatic statement of the specialty at this little strip mall café next to In-N-Out on Inglewood. The restaurant is sparsely decorated and looks like a typical fast food joint, and the menu is short – chicken or beef shawerma or kebabs, lamb and kofta kebabs, rotisserie chicken, and falafel, with a few salads, soups, and sides. It might be another forgettable fast food joint save for two things – the spicing is Southern Turkish and slightly different from the more typical Palestinian and Lebanese offerings, and the ingredients are unusually high quality. The beef is grass-fed choice sirloin, which makes a noticeable difference. On my first visit, my brother and I ordered combination plates – beef…
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