🥙 Authentic German-style döner sandwiches have arrived in the Valley thanks to a new eatery, Kings Döner, in the Albertson’s plaza on the southeast corner of Cave Creek and Union Hills in north Phoenix.
Döner kebab – seasoned meat sliced from a vertical rotisserie – is thought to have originated in the Ottoman Empire in the 1800s and was the forerunner of shawarma in the Arab world, gyros in Greece, and al pastor in Mexico.
Döner was brought to West Berlin by Turkish immigrants in the 1970s and a sandwich version quickly became the country’s most popular street food.
The shaved meat (turkey, chicken, sliced beef, or ground beef) is accompanied by grilled veggies, lettuce, red cabbage, onions, radish slices, pomegranate seeds, and herb and garlic sauces on panini-pressed pide flatbread.
Kings Döner, owned and operated by a German family, is open 10 a.m.-9 p.m. daily.
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