“Can I have my shawarma wrap made with one side of a pita?” I ask Adham Kamal, the owner of Sincerely Syria in Sherman Oaks. I gesture as if peeling the bread apart into two rounds. He nods with a ...

To an outsider looking into a restaurant or street vendor specializing in shawarma or gyro sandwiches, the meat on the giant metal skewer — from which large pieces are carved off by hand — might seem ...