Awafi - Granville

What do you do when your in Granville and in want of charcoal chicken and the El Jannah line is too long? You walk a little up the road until you hit another charcoal chicken shop. It always puzzled me how two shops, serving pretty much exactly the same thing, can have such differing numbers in clientele. Was one shop actually better than the other?

Awafi

Because we were too lazy to wait for El Jannah, my hubby and I decided to eat charcoal chicken at Awafi instead. We ordered the same thing we normally do - chicken and chips. The prices here are pretty similar to El Jannah (maybe like 50c cheaper) and you get all your usual stuff - bread, pickles, garlic sauce and chicken.

The garlic sauce here tasted pretty much just as good as El Jannah and the pickles were longer but again, similar taste-wise. The chicken itself was also very very similar such that based on these three things alone - I would not be able to know the difference in a blind taste-test (or an opened-eye one for that matter). The only difference seems to lie in the bread. The bread here was relatively dry... a lot drier than the yummy moist bread from El Jannah. Is it the bread that makes all the difference between the two competing chicken shops? Maybe...

charcoal chicken, garlic sauce, pickles and bread

There's also an extra size of chips here at Awafi - small, medium and large. The small chips here are relatively smaller in portion compared to the small chips at El Jannah - but it's tasty all the same.

chips

So if I were in Granville and wanting Charcoal chicken, which shop would I go to? We are creatures of habit so I think my first choice would still be El Jannah.

Ratings:
Food - 7/10
Service - 7/10
Ambiance - 7/10
Value for money - 7/10
Overall - 28/40

Awafi Charcoal Chicken
1/43 South Street
Granville,
NSW 2142
Tel: (02) 9637 3111

El Jannah (2) - Granville

Mmmm.... Chicken.... and lots of it!

My partner and a couple of friends had wanted to eat charcoal chicken from no other place other than El Jannah in Granville. This has now become a very frequented joint for my partner and I - and no matter how much chicken he eats, my partner does not seem to get sick of this place.

However, this lunch - we ordered TWO chickens between the 4 of us. To me, this seriously, just looked like a mountain of chicken. Hecticness.

The chicken was awesome as always. Charcoally burnt skin, juicy succulent meat. But most importantly - super super super awesomeness garlic sauce!!!

TWO whole chickens

Personally, I don't think that Charcoal chicken will be the same without garlic sauce. It's soooo super garlicy flavoured, smooth, creamy and no-doubt fattening. But so so so good and irresistable.

garlic sauce

The pickles were as normal. To me, the pink ones always taste stronger than the green ones. But when eaten with the chicken and the garlic sauce, it's always quite awesome~

pickles

No meal at El Jannah would be complete (for me) without these almost perfectly cooked chips. Crunchy on the outside and soft and fluffly on the inside and lightly dusted with chicken salt, it is seriously awesomely deliciousness when dipped in a good amount of garlic sauce.

Chips

So overall, El Jannah is awesome. Chicken is good, chips are more than good, and the garlic sauce is super super super good. But is it good enough for us to visit this place once to twice each week? My partner would say so.

Ratings:
Food - 9/10
Service - 7/10
Ambiance - 7/10
Value for money - 7/10
Overall - 30/40

El Jannah
4-6 South Street
Granville
NSW 2142
tel: (02) 9637 0977

El Jannah - Granville

El Jannah

For my partner's birthday, he got to decide what he wanted to eat. Funnily enough, the request wasn't the expected, nice lunch destination, nor was it the yummy fish market for fresh seafood, nor was it the usual fast-food joint (KFC). Instead, his craving was for lebanese charcoal chicken. Having heard my partner rave on about this place non-stop for the past two weeks, then having this place be his birthday lunch destination, I was super super curious as to how good grilled chicken could be.

The verdict? Not only was it good - it's pretty freakin awesome~!!! (or atleast that's what I think of the garlic sauce)... and it's not just us who think so - whilst we ate in, people non-stoppedly packed into the place~

We ordered a whole charcoal chicken, eat-in ($21... it's cheaper if you takeaway). It comes with condiments - pickles, super duper awesome garlic sauce, and lebanese bread. We also ordered a small chips ($4) which turned out to be a massive bowl of golden deep fried potato doused with chicken salt.

Pickles and super awesome garlic sauce

Chips with chicken salt (small) - $4

Half the chicken

So how do you eat this thing?

First you tear some of the bread.

Then you heap on the garlic sauce.

Add the pickles.
Shove a bit of the chicken on top of that.

Wrap it all up.
Then shove it in your mouth!!! Simply deliciousness!!!
Now I understand why my partner craves this place - I reckon it's all in the garlic sauce. He reckons its the whole package - bread and pickles and all. Give it a try and decide for yourself~

Ratings
Food - 9/10
Service - 7/10
Ambiance - 7/10
Value for money - 7/10
Overall - 30/40

El Jannah
4-6 South Street
Granville
NSW 2142
tel: (02) 9637 0977