The Chick Pea

Saleem Kachour

I genuinely love this place. The food is always fresh, flavorful, and made with care. You can tell the people here take pride in what they do. Everything I have tried has been consistently good, and the quality never disappoints.The staff are kind, welcoming, and make you feel comfortable the moment you walk in. It is the kind of place you keep coming back to because it feels familiar and reliable in the best way.If you are looking for great food made with heart, this spot is absolutely worth it. Highly recommend.

A

Easily easily the best shawarma/donair spot in calgary10/10 from service to portions to food. I ask for extra sweet an extra hot it’s done with love. The meat portions are to more then amazing.I love this place it was my second time today and I just felt that I had to write a review cause wow. I’ll be back again

Ali D

The Chick Pea brings the authentic taste of the Middle East to Calgary. Both the beef donair and chicken shawarma are excellent. The quality service has come over from the previous location. The Chick Pea is the perfect lunchtime meal to keep you full due to the generous portions.

Husam Saleh

I visited The Chick Pea, a Middle Eastern restaurant with a typical menu of shawarma, falafel, and donair, along with a variety of side dishes. I decided to keep it simple and ordered a basic falafel sandwich—just bread, falafel, lettuce, tomato, and tahini sauce—to focus on the falafel itself.The sandwich looked fresh and was neatly prepared: the bread was soft, the lettuce crisp and cool, the tomato fresh, and the tahini sauce flavorful. However, the falafel itself was disappointing. While it had a nice crispy texture, it had a noticeable bitter aftertaste. I even tried a piece on its own to be sure it wasn’t the sauce, and unfortunately, the bitterness came from the falafel.Interestingly, I’ve noticed this same bitter taste at several falafel spots in Calgary. It could be due to mass-pr

Nikolay Angelov

Possibly the worst donair place in all of downtown. You’d have to be starving to enjoy this desert dry wrapping filled with enough meat to feed a toddler.

Saleem Kachour

I genuinely love this place. The food is always fresh, flavorful, and made with care. You can tell the people here take pride in what they do. Everything I have tried has been consistently good, and the quality never disappoints.

A

Easily easily the best shawarma/donair spot in calgary10/10 from service to portions to food. I ask for extra sweet an extra hot it’s done with love. The meat portions are to more then amazing.

Ali D

The Chick Pea brings the authentic taste of the Middle East to Calgary. Both the beef donair and chicken shawarma are excellent.

Had a pretty decent meal. Food was tasty and plentiful for the price. Although I think the "garlic" sauce was more donair sweet than garlicky. But it was a great lunch option for us while visint downtown Calgary. Staff were in the middle of a large delivery order but were very friendly and quick to serve us.

The Chic Pea has been a downtown staple for many years , the food is absolutely amazing for a great price . I have been supporting this downtown GEM for many years and have had the opportunity to getting to know the amazing staff who go above and beyond to provide amazing customer service which has earned my loyalty....keep it up in these challenging times .

Had the mixed beef and chicken wrap for lunch and found it to have amazing flavor for the $10.xx paid. It was quite tasty and even though it is Halifax style in a pita (not with the saj cracker style thin bread found in some other more authentic places), it definitely hit the flavor spot.

When in the downtown core, its worth the walk to 8 ave to get the Beef Shwarma at Chick Pea. There will be line up at lunch but it goes fast. Lots of ingredients to choose from and the price is very reasonable.

Great food. Great and speedy service. Fresh ingredients, good value. The meat tasted amazing and the Donair had a good portion of beef in it.

Located in the west end of downtown Calgary (just down the street from the Ramada Hotel) this unassuming looking little restaurant is not what you could call glamorous but it's absolutely worth the walk. I work right across the street so it's a monthly trip for me. The falafel is my personal favorite but I've also had the beef donair and the chicken shawarma - all excellent.