SEE HOW WE MAKE IT.
Take a look behind the scenes of our Dartmouth, NS Production Facility to see how serious we are about using high quality ingredients in your food!
We still make it Dad's way: With 100% Canadian chicken (and 35 years of know-how).
For us, shawarma is a labour of love.
We've been marinating our chicken in-house using our original family recipe for over three decades.
It's still stacked and shaped by hand every day, slow-roasted and shaved fresh.
Canadian chicken is marinated overnight in our original family spice blend, then layered piece by piece each morning in our restaurants.
Every shawarma cone is carefully trimmed and shaped by hand, then mounted on a rotisserie and slow-cooked to juicy perfection.
It takes time, but it's carefully coordinated so that the chicken is fresh and ready to shave when the doors open.
Our shawarma is proudly served without shortcuts or compromises, the same way we've been doing it for years.
Skewered by us.
Fire-grilled for you.
Our souvlaki is made from hand-skewered Canadian chicken breasts, crafted fresh and cooked by flame to perfection.
The result? Timeless Mediterranean flavours, unchanged since 1990.
We use all-Canadian chicken breasts, cubed and tossed in our family's traditional marinade at our production centre.
In our restaurants, the prep team builds fresh souvlaki by hand, carefully pushing the chicken pieces one at a time onto wooden skewers so they're ready to cook.
They're fire-grilled and evenly seared until just right; charred on the outside, tender and juicy on the inside.
Every bite is packed with the perfect amount of marinade to balance the deep smokiness of the grill; Unmistakably hand-crafted flavours that have been loved for decades.
our family made the recipe.
We never changed it.
Our award-winning garlic sauce starts with real garlic cloves, using our Dad's original recipe. It's the same recipe that put us on the map and made us locally loved for decades.
Our garlic sauce is crafted fresh from whole garlic cloves, without powders or artificial flavours.
The sauce is made in small batches by a dedicated team in our sauce production room, using our family's award-winning recipe.
The finished sauce is silky smooth, adding a deliciously bold and savoury finish to our juicy slow-cooked chicken shawarma.
It's delivered straight to each restaurant, so you know you're getting the same hall-of-fame flavours at every single Mezza location.
Cut this morning.
Cooked to order.
The perfect fry doesn't happen by accident. It comes from hours of careful work, every single morning – for over 35 years.
We use only fresh-cut potatoes, which are triple-washed, blanched, then cooked and seasoned to order.
Fries this good are worth starting early for.
Our prep team starts early in the morning, getting fresh Canadian-grown potatoes ready to cut and wash.
The potatoes are pushed one at a time through steel blades and plunged into cold water, then soaked and drained.
They're triple washed, ensuring they're perfectly clean and rinsed free of natural starches. It's more work, and it's absolutely worth it.
The fries are tossed in our family recipe fry spice, with each one getting an even coating of the delicious and savoury seasoning our guests have loved since 1990.
Our roots are Lebanese.
So is our tahini.
Most restaurants' hummus comes from containers. Ours comes from whole chickpeas and real tahini.
We don't take shortcuts when it comes to our small batch sauces, because authentic recipes deserve authentic ingredients.
Every batch starts with whole chickpeas, which are strained in our sauce room then pureed until perfectly smooth.
We use only pure tahini, made with 100% toasted sesame seeds and imported from Lebanon.
Our prep team blends the hummus in small batches, then fills the buckets one at a time and gets them ready for delivery.
Our hummus arrives fresh to each kitchen, ready to add the perfect creamy finish to the Mezza dishes that have been loved for decades.
Grown just for us.
Pickled by us.
Our pickled turnips have been adding a pop of colour to Mezza dishes for years. We even partnered with a local farm to grow and sort them just for us.
The reason they're bright pink? They're pickled naturally with beets for iconic flavour, colour and crunch.
We source our turnips directly from a local family-run farm. They're grown just for us, so they're the perfect shape and size for pickling.
The deep pink colour comes naturally from beetroot powder, without any artificial ingredients or colouring.
The turnips are washed, cut and pickled in small batches, then shipped to each of our restaurants to serve.
The result is our iconic pickled turnips: bright pink and tangy with a satisfying crunch.
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