Village Shawarma (CLOSED)

Village Shawarma is a notch above most MacDougal Street falafel joints-in-the-wall. It’s clean and well lit with loads of indoor and outdoor seating. The namesake dish comes in lamb and turkey varieties; vegetarians will find spicy, bite-sized falafel. Order any platter and you’re free to visit the Israeli equivalent of a fixins bar to heap your plate high with tabouli, hummus, tomato-cucumber salad and roasted eggplant. Plop down at a table, watch the Israeli satellite feed on TV, and brush up on your Hebrew.