Tilal Bakery

This place is around a 15-​minute drive from my workplace (so really far from where I live), but would totally make the trek cause this bakery is bomb. I’ve been recently introduced to Lebanese cuisine and I gotta say that the stuff they got happening at this bakery is worth any drive!
Shawarma + Meat Pie (4.5÷5): I’m not sure if it’s because my friend and I came alittle earlier than the lunch rush, but our shawarmas were perfect. I had the beef shawarma and all the ingredients came in the right proportions plus it was toasted to perfection. I thought the beef was well seasoned well and the pita may have been different as it didn’t fall apart at all near the end of the meal! Now the meat pie. I asked what this was called in Lebanese… but I seriously can’t pronounce it. So it’s going to be called square meat pie. It was damn delicious. With some kind of meat + tomato filling wrapped in a crisp open top square dough bowl, I couldn’t of asked for a better appetizer to my shawarma. I want more, and I want to go back, this place really impressed me!
Cost (⁴⁄₅): $ 5.50 for a well sized and well-​made shawarma + $ 1 per square meat pie. Definitely worth.
Service (⁴⁄₅): Lots of Lebanese customers at this joint, but that doesn’t mean that they treat you any different if you aren’t from their homeland. In fact, I thought it was a nice touch that whether you ordered a chicken or beef shawarma the person making it for you would tell you the traditional ingredients for chicken/​beef shawarma and then asked if you wanted anything more above that. Overall, a very friendly joint!
Ambiance (3.5÷5): This bakery has a huge space and although it’s kind of in the middle nowhere, and doesn’t have a huge focus on décor, I found it was really clean. There is the bakery on one half of the place and a large area on the other side if you’d like to sit in. No complaints here!
Altogether, I will definitely be back. No doubt about it.