Serving La Cañada Flintridge
La Cañada's Closest Spit Is 12 Minutes Down the Hill
La Cañada Flintridge has roses at Descanso and rovers at JPL, but a shawarma spit it does not have. Twelve minutes down the 2, ours has been turning since 11 AM and won't stop until 2 the next morning.
The JPL Lunch Run, Solved
Somewhere at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, someone is doing the math on whether a lunch run to Glendale fits in an hour. It does: the 2 South drops out of the foothills fast, and 625 E Colorado St is about twelve minutes from the gate. Call (747) 377-0707 before you leave and the order comes off the spit as you park — wraps for the carpool, plates if the afternoon meeting got cancelled. We've fueled longer odysseys than Colorado St. A team that lands spacecraft on other planets can absolutely coordinate a group shawarma order.
Families have their own version of this run. An afternoon at Descanso Gardens — camellias, the train, the inevitable gift shop negotiation — ends with everyone hungry at once, and we're a straight shot down the hill. Plates and wraps travel well, so dinner pickup for the whole table is a one-stop errand, and nobody has to agree on a restaurant while standing in a parking lot with tired kids.
Down the Hill, Up the Standard
All of our meat is seasoned and stacked in-house, and carved off the spit only when an order calls for it — that's the difference between shawarma and reheated meat strips. The house toum is the converter: whipped garlic sauce, made fresh, that turns first-timers into people who specify "extra toum" forever after.
La Cañada keeps early hours; we keep both kinds. Open at 11 AM for the lunch crowd, open until 2 AM for whatever the foothills get up to after dark — teenagers home from a game, a deadline at the lab, a craving that arrived without an explanation. Street and lot parking near the shop keep the Glendale end simple, and DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub handle delivery up the hill when the drive isn't in the cards.
Questions, answered
Do you deliver to La Cañada Flintridge?+
DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub cover most of La Cañada from our Glendale kitchen. Pickup via (747) 377-0707 is quick too — the 2 makes it an easy run.
Can I fit a pickup into a JPL lunch hour?+
Comfortably. It's about twelve minutes each way down the 2 — call ahead and your order is carved and wrapped when you walk in.
Can one pickup feed the whole family?+
That's the Family Combo — both meats, rice, hummus, falafel, fries, bread, and toum, feeding four to five. Call ahead and it's packed hot when you arrive.
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