Liberty Shawarma

I live in the neighborhood and used to eat here when I moved in three years ago. However, I now stay away. This place has been listed on DineSafe numerous times with some serious infractions and yet miraculously continues to operate. The staff look miserable and don’t seem to care about customers or cleanliness. On many occasions I saw them accept money while still wearing their plastic gloves and then go right back to making wraps — wearing the same gloves. Given their popularity on DineSafe, I can only imagine what else goes on there.

I do not recommend this place. Eat here at your own risk as they been on the dinesafe list occasionally for conditional pass. I do not know why they keep going on the list but they aren’t doing something right. On to the food, they keep their meat already shaved which is not good as they are over cooked when they reheat it. Must be older meat of something cause it was dry and hard. Price is higher than the normal shawarma place I go to. Will not be back for sure

Here for work so I decided to give this place a try. I believe they have a deal on Saturdays where you get two platters for $ 18??? I got the beef platter with literally everything in it. Hummus, rice, pickled veg, cucumber, peppers, roasted cumin potato, tomato, tabouleh, lentils etc etc. It was very tasty. Really enjoyed their pickled red cabbage and the roasted potato. Everything tasted fresh, seasoned well, and the staff were very friendly.

just don’t go here — dirty, rude staff, pricey. literally nothing good to say.

Located at Spadina and Bremner Rd across from the Rogers center, it serves the many locals aka CityPlace folks their cravings for shawarma. First time I came here a fight broke out, but again that’s what happens when a food business is opened till the early AM in the morning.
LOng story short, the place is clean, the service is fast/​efficient and everything is neatly displayed.
Terms of food, my buddy and I ordered their chicken shawarma deal. in terms of ingredients, they’ve got all the necessary things. HOwever in terms of taste, I honestly found the chicken to be on the bland side.
would I come back here? only if it were the only shawarma place in the area.

Was horrible my Shawarma fell apart and the pita bread tasted stale, so may other places that are way better and cheaper

Great that it is open until 4am on Friday and Saturday for that after-​bar snack. They have free chips while you wait.
But its hot inside because of the open concept kitchen, would be better if they turned up the A/​C.
Decent prices. Food a bit on the greasy side.
Try the garlic potatoes fries.

Used to be a good place where we often had tasty shawarmas, however everything is changing in time, something for better other for worse: last time meat in shawarma was a really low quality. that’s disappointing when places you like loose their standards.

I ordered a chicken Sharma plate. The next two days I had food poisoning. The black bean salad i discovered the next day was actually rancid and smelled very sour! I think this was actually the cause and not the chicken because it was not that bad; although it swam in garlic sauce. I would not advise eating here. …

Would not recommend as they don’t use fresh ingredients got terrible food poisoning. Try other places in the area.

If you’ve ever had Shawarma from the best Lebanese spots in Ottawa, you’ll understand just how far short this place lands. I just had to throw my sandwich out it was so disgusting. I’ve tried a number of spots in the downtown core and it has become apparent that I wont enjoy the same quality of Lebanese cuisine in Toronto as I did in Ottawa. Disappointing…

I would give this place ZERO stars but unfortunately Unilocal only has a scale of 1 to 5. This restaurant just received its 8^th failing pass inspection since 2013. I have ate here a few times, and am now downgrading my previous rating of 2 stars to 1 star. You would think after the last failing grade the owners of this place would have stepped things up, but no, they continued to prepare food in unsanitary conditions. I actually got sick here once but blamed it on my extra spicy order. If you value your HEALTH avoid this dump at all costs no matter how hungry you are or no matter how much you are having a craving for Shawarma…

I used to go here almost once a week when i was working in the area. The first couple of lunches were great. The usual chicken shawarma, «with everything spicy». It really hit the spot. Juicy meat, fresh veggies and everything. Then months later I don’t know what happened. Owner change or employee change??? It was disgusting. The shawarma was just nasty. I did notice different employees behind the counter so I was thinking maybe an ownership changed happened. After that last bad lunch, I vowed to never go back. I used to be a fan of Liberty but definitely do not recommend it anymore.

Mediocre shawarma. However the $ 9.99 for shawarma, fries and a drink is a great price. The employees are nice and work fast. Again, just mediocre. Nothing too spectacular.

I used to go to this place all the time but recently found out that it was cited with 9 food safety violations. I’m honestly surprised that it wasn’t closed down but I’m definitely sure I won’t end up coming back.
If you’re up for the risk however, the food here is alright. Its just the regular fast food shawarma and offers the usual services. Theres nothing that really stands out about this place but I did like the shish taouk plates. Pretty much only went here since it was close to where I lived.
Try at your own risk

Last time I was here I got food poisoning. And ever since they have had many yellow flags from dine-​safe.
Too many critical issues.
Never again.

Been here several times, the sandwiches aren’t terrible but there nothing to write home about either. However, despite their mediocre sandwiches they still charge pretty steep prices compared to other shawarma joints in the city. The fries here are actually quite good. They are simple McCain like fries with a perfect crisp but what makes them awesome is this chilli-​powder they dust them with.
What makes this place successful is it’s basically the only thing open late in cityplace on the weekend. If it’s dinner time during the week I’d recommend going to several other places in the area. But if it’s 2 am on a Friday night then you can’t really go wrong choosing liberty shawarma.

I don’t hand out 1 stars lightly, and as always it pains me to do so, however, the experience I had at this little shawarma shop Saturday night needs to be told. It was about 10pm and all I wanted was something cheap, filling and fresh to eat… not a lot to ask right?
I ordered the chicken shawarma sandwich and a bottle of water, which was supposed to be a special for $ 9.99 as posted. However, 2 drinks and a shawarma sandwich came out to $ 16!!! I lived in Windsor for almost 2 years (a little known shawarma capital of Canada. no joke!) And while the shawarma options were plentiful, I never paid more than $ 4 for a sandwich!
While the price was obscene, where this place looses its points is in how they approach the creation of their sandwich. I’m used to eating a shawarma that is freshly shaved off the spit, cooked slightly on the flat top and tossed into pita. Not here, the meat was pre-​shaved and sitting in a metal container on the flat top — keeping warm. The result was an overcooked, dry and at times HARD chicken filler. Dog Food to be honest…
The final nail in the coffin was when the sandwich was being assembled — Normal etiquette is, if the pita rips in half, you remake the sandwich again. Not here, it fell apart and was tossed in the panini press to smush it all together before being wrapped tightly. I mentioned the sandwich was falling apart before they wrapped it (which would be an indicator for the staff to offer to remake it) instead I was told «don’t worry about it — I got this.» Apparently not, it was falling apart as I unwrapped it before I could even take a bite…

From the outside I wasn’t expecting much but I was pleasantly surprised. This place makes a good gyro. I had the chicken and I could have made it two meals. Good value and good food. They actually stuff the pita instead of the more traditional «Jimmy the Greek» style flatbread taco. I liked it because I didn’t loose the juices.
Just as sure as I ‘Terminated’ that sandwich; I’ll be back!

Admittedly, I’ve never been a fan of Middle Eastern food. Very rarely do I eat a shawarma that makes my toe curl (just one in Boston). And now, pending my exile to Europe, I try to avoid things like kabobs and shawarmas knowing that they overflow the cities every turn you make.
Nevertheless, Liberty Shawarma, located so so so close to where I live, and I, being so so so lazy, have met begrudgingly. The décor is clean, being new and all, and the service is friendly. for $ 13ish after tax, you get a giant chicken shawarma entrée plate that’s piled with middle eastern dishes, like all that pink stuff, lentils, chick peas, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, pickles, radishes, potatoes, rice, and some coriander cilantro stuff… it’s not _​cheap_​but it is a lot of random stuff for the price.
Is the food good? It’s alright. The chicken itself was not anything special, but if you drench on enough mediocre sauce, it’s palatable. The green spicy sauce is pretty good.