On the menu · $3.00+
Drinks & Desserts
What you drink with shawarma matters more than people admit, and how you end the meal matters most of all. Our lineup keeps it in the family: tan, Armenian coffee, baklava, and cold cases of the usual suspects for everyone else.
$3.00+
Tan with your wrap, Armenian coffee after, baklava because you made it this far.
Tan: the correct answer
Tan, also called ayran across the region, is yogurt, water, and salt, shaken cold. If you've never had it, that description does it no justice. Next to rich spit meat, a cold salty tan does what no soda can: it cools the palate, cuts the richness, and resets you for the next bite instead of coating everything in sugar. Armenian and Middle Eastern tables have known this for generations. One wrap, one tan, and you'll understand why we put it first on the cooler shelf.
It surprises first-timers, the salt where they expected sweet. Give it three sips. By the bottom of the cup it makes complete sense, and by your next visit it's just what you order. We keep it properly cold, which matters more with tan than with almost anything else in the cooler. Lukewarm tan never converted anyone. Ice-cold tan next to hot meat off the spit converts people one skeptical first sip at a time.
Armenian coffee and the slow finish
Armenian coffee is brewed the old way: fine-ground, simmered in a small pot until it foams, served strong in a small cup with the grounds settling at the bottom. It's not a to-go-cup-with-a-sleeve situation. It's a sit-for-a-minute situation, the way meals end at home, and it pairs with baklava like the two were introduced at birth. Because they basically were.
The baklava brings layered phyllo, nuts, and syrup, sweet and sticky in the way that demands exactly that bitter coffee alongside it. One piece is a finish. Two pieces is a decision we support. And at 1 AM, strong coffee and baklava is either the end of your night or the beginning of the next part of it. Not our business. We just brew.
Rounding out the order
The cooler also holds sodas, water, and juices for the table members who want the familiar, and you'll get no lectures from us about it. But the house recommendation stands: tan with the meal, Armenian coffee and baklava after. That's the full arc, the way this food has always been eaten, available here on Colorado Street until 2 AM every night of the week.
Drinks and desserts ride along easily on DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub orders, and the baklava in particular makes a phone order at (747) 377-0707 worth padding. Trust the person who packs the boxes: nobody has ever regretted adding baklava. Plenty have regretted not adding it, usually in the car, about a block away.
Questions, answered
What is tan, exactly?+
A traditional yogurt drink, also known as ayran: yogurt, water, and salt, served ice cold. Savory, refreshing, and the classic pairing with shawarma. $5 on the cooler shelf, classic or mint.
Does the baklava contain nuts?+
Yes, baklava is made with layered phyllo and nuts. If you have a nut allergy, skip it and let us know so we keep your whole order clear.
Do you serve coffee late?+
We brew Armenian coffee for as long as the doors are open, which means until 2 AM. Late-night coffee and baklava is a Patar tradition.
Find us on Colorado St
Patar Shawarma · 625 E Colorado St, Glendale, CA 91205
Get directions →Patar Shawarma · 625 E Colorado St, Glendale, CA 91205 · (747) 377-0707 · Open daily 11:00 AM – 2:00 AM