Tahini's

Middle Eastern is one of my best categories, and in North Bay this is where I go. A large chicken shawarma, on a salad or a rice bowl.

The order only works if I say it out loud, because the defaults are the problem. The standard pour is toum, the garlic sauce. It's delicious and it's mostly oil. I ask for the fattoush vinaigrette instead, and only that.

Then the list of things to leave off: no white sauce, no pickled peppers, no feta, no pita chips. It sounds fussy. The person behind the counter has heard worse.

Tahini's doesn't publish nutrition numbers, so there's nothing official to quote.