The best falafels we've ever had!

Nameless little shack
Gloucester Green
Oxford



This nondescript little shack, with no branding and no fanfare, is almost always crowded with Middle Eastern customers.



Sandwiched between a shoe repair place and a dodgy fried chicken shack, we'd passed but never been adventurous to try it, until a friend gave it her highest recommendations.



Riffs on a theme: we were told to try their falafel - the best in town.



A tiny but immaculately clean cooking area within the shack. The metal container contains the chickpea mix, which is made into falafel shapes and deep fried to order. The proprietor told us that falafels simply don't age well, and that all these place serving days-old falafel were cheating their customers.



A range of shashlik kebabs were also offered via colour photographs, but everybody was ordering the falafel wraps.



Additional fillings: salad, pickled gherkins, pickled chillies, fried potato; as well as spinach and halloumi for other dishes that they serve.



Hummous, and the shashliks.



Our falafels are wrapped in turkish bread, dense and chewy but thin so that they aren't too heavy.



Doused with a little garlic mayo and chili sauce, this was actually heaven - even though it was vegetarian.



The falafel are tasty, with a distinct nutty flavour from the chickpeas. Not at all dry, the falafel itself would have been great with dips, but wrapped with a crisp salad of contrasting savoury, sharp and zingy flavours, this was a total winner.



The entire wrap had been toasted quickly in a panini press before serving, so that the flat bread had time to warm up and crisp slightly.

The damage: £2.80 for a falafel and hummous wrap, 20p more if you want some crispy potatoes. Better than any baguette you will find in town, and definitely the best falafel we've so far tasted.