Midnight Eats, Glendale Edition
Midnight is when Glendale gets honest about what it actually wants to eat, and it usually isn't a salad. Patar Shawarma is the midnight counter on Colorado Street — fresh-carved shawarma, loaded fries, and garlic sauce by the tub, open until 2 AM every night.
The midnight room
Come in around midnight and the place has its own weather. Servers and line cooks just off shift, decompressing over a plate. A couple of friends stretching a night out a little longer. A delivery driver grabbing something between runs. Somebody who got hungry at 11:45 and made the right call. By a quarter past, the counter has turned into its own small late-night neighborhood, and the spit is the center of it.
It's an easy, unhurried hour to eat. No dinner-rush wait, no line out the door — just hot food coming off the fire and enough quiet to actually enjoy it.
What to order at midnight
If you're eating on the move, get a wrap — lavash or pita, rolled tight, built for one hand and a steering wheel. If you're sitting down, the bowl over fries is the midnight champion: crispy fries buried under carved shawarma, garlic sauce, and pickles, eaten with a fork. The plate over rice is the move when you want it to feel like a real dinner instead of a refuel.
Feeding a car full of people? Mix it — a couple of wraps, a bowl for the middle of the table, fries, and extra toum no matter what. Midnight orders are group orders more often than not, and this menu splits without anybody doing math.
Still carved to order at midnight
The thing that separates midnight eats here from midnight eats anywhere else is that nothing is waiting for you. The vertical spit turns and caramelizes all day and night, and we carve only when you order, so the meat at midnight is exactly as fresh as the meat at noon. Marinated overnight, whipped toum, bread off the griddle — the full standard, just later.
We're at 625 E Colorado St. Walk in, call ahead at (747) 377-0707, or order on DoorDash, Uber Eats, or Grubhub. The kitchen's open till 2, and midnight is right in its wheelhouse.
Questions, answered
Where can I get good food at midnight in Glendale?+
Patar Shawarma at 625 E Colorado St — open till 2 AM nightly, with the full menu of shawarma wraps, plates, and loaded fries carved fresh to order, not held under a lamp.
What's the best thing to order late at night?+
The bowl over fries is the late-night favorite, and the mixed shawarma wrap is the one-handed classic. Add extra garlic sauce and a side of fries to share if you're with a group.
Is it busy at midnight?+
Calmer than the dinner rush, usually — a steady late-night crowd of off-shift workers and night owls, but rarely a wait. It's an easy hour to walk in and eat.
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