Gyros House

Fast, but not fast food

Gyros House is on Castro, Mountain View. The food is authentic (our Turkish friend confirmed). If you want to have something quick but with a good quality, Gyros House is one of your choices.

Many people would recommend you to take Lamb and Beef Kebab Gyro. But, not me. I wanted to recommend you to try something else. Lamb and Beef Kebab is already good. But, if you try Adana Kebab Gyro, you will say to yourself "oh la la, this is a gold in a small and plain looking restaurant."

Adana Kebab 101 (from Wikipedia)

Adana Kebab is a long, charcoal grilled, minced meat brochette mounted on a wide skewer. Only salt and dried red pepper flakes (sweet or hot according to desire) are added to the meat. Red bell pepper can be hand chopped into very small pieces and be used instead of red pepper. 4 or 5 ounces (100 or 150 grams) of meat are mounted on a special skewer which is about 3 feet long (80-90 cm) and about an inch wide (2.0-2.5 cm). Then it is grilled over hot charcoal. During the grilling the fat melts and burns on the charcoal. The fire is not allowed to reach the meat; otherwise it leaves black soot on the meat. The dripping fat is usually removed by a piece of fresh flatbread - pide (also known as berberi) bread or lavash.

Location: 212 Castro St, Mountain View, CA 94041