Paradise Street Food
Chicken shawarma runs £6.50 and the charcoal chicken £13 at this counter on Howard Street, where the shop's whole pitch is meat
fired over charcoal, served fast1.
Why go
The menu is built around the fire: shawarma cut off the spit, charcoal chicken, and a mix grill at £18.20 for a table to share, with wraps, kebabs, oven-baked items and sides around them. A full lahmajen tops the list at £39.00, which is a group order rather than a plate. Service runs every day from noon to 10pm, which makes it one of the few reliable cheap dinners in that corner of the center after the St Enoch shops close. The shop holds an FSA/FHIS Pass from an inspection in March 2025. Everything above comes from the venue's own site and the hygiene register, because no critic, chef or local food desk reachable in this pass has written about it.
Order this / avoid
- Order: the chicken shawarma at £6.50 to test the shop cheaply, or the charcoal chicken at £13.00 if you want to see what the fire does.1
- Avoid: relying on the halal labels that directory sites attach to this shop. The venue's own page makes no halal statement, so ask at the counter if it matters to you.
What locals & experts say
- The venue's own line:
Fresh Shawarma, Grills & Street Food, fired over charcoal, served fast.
The original uses a dash where this quote uses a comma.1 - Coverage gap, stated plainly: no chef mention, no trade press, no expert-local write-up and no reachable community thread names this shop. The Glasgow Times' roundup of the city's shawarma counters does not include it. That absence is the reason this entry sits at low confidence.
- Local rec: Jeff's save, and his note below records a 2024 best-street-food nomination whose awarding body could not be identified.
Good to know
- Timing: open daily, noon to 10pm.
- Booking: walk-in, counter service, with delivery platforms carrying the same menu.
- Getting there: 58 Howard Street, between St Enoch and the Clyde, a couple of minutes from St Enoch subway.
- Hygiene: FSA/FHIS Pass, inspected 13 March 2025.
Jeff's take (his words)
- Note: "Nominated for best street food 2024"
Verdict
listed — On the board as a cheap charcoal shawarma counter at the St Enoch end of the center, open every day from noon to 10pm, with chicken shawarma at £6.50 and charcoal chicken at £13. It holds a current hygiene Pass. No chef, critic or awarding body reachable in this pass has said anything about the food, and Jeff's own note records a nomination that cannot be traced, so it stays at listed until someone with a name goes on the record.