Beef and lamb stacked onto a vertical rotisserie greet diners walking into Shawarmaji, a Bay Area eatery that co-owner Feras Abutaha says is filling a long-missing niche in the region's crowded ...

Here's how Shawarmaji brings Arab comfort food from the streets of Amman, Jordan to Oakland while giving back in the process. OAKLAND, Calif. -- "Karam" is a guiding principle in Arab culture; the ...

Five Bay Area restaurants have cause for celebration after landing on Esquire’s Best New Restaurants in America list. Out of 40 businesses throughout the country, five restaurants from San Francisco ...

Oakland chef Mohammad Abutaha’s star is rapidly rising. It wasn’t long ago that the young Jordanian chef’s street food pop-up, Shawarmaji, was drawing lines at Reem’s California for delicious, griddle ...

With simple, Jordanian street-food style ingredients, Shawarmaji has attracted diners from across the Bay Area. Loureen Ayyoub reports. Historically low water level in two crucial US reservoirs ...