If I’m looking for alone time, I’ll grab a yiros with extra garlic sauce and onions. My breath will be so garlicky, even the vampires will stay away. Usually the only people I can speak to, are the people that had a yiros with me. With the amount of mess a yiros makes, it’s not particularly date food, but something you have at 3am in the morning to absorb all the alcohol that you just drunk.

Today, I had lunch at the Yiros Centre which is located in the Myer Centre food court. The menu is pretty standard with your 3 types of meat and vegetarian options. They also sell baklava and Turkish delight if you’ve got a bit of a sweet tooth. I went for my usual, the Combination Yiros Plate. At $12, the price is reasonable and in the middle of the range when compared to their competitors. The chicken, beef and lamb was freshly carved off the rotisserie. I particularly like how they did the “kill” step, which is when they fry the meat before serving to eliminate any uncooked meat. One of the store assistants did ask if I wanted pita bread to which I agreed. The bread was lightly grilled before literally being thrown onto a publicly used food tray. The food tray is full of germs and this move was big no no! What they should have done was wrap the pita bread in grease proof paper and then hand it to me. I refused to eat the pita bread by the way.

The Combination Yiros Plate was nicely presented, and a generous serving of meat and salad was provided. The chicken was a bit bland and fatty. The lamb was well marinated but there wasn’t much of it. The beef was well cooked and tasty. For those that don’t know, the beef yiros meat is minced up off cuts from a cow, usually bones, lips, intestines, sinew, ears, hooves and all the other bits nobody wants. It’s a bit like meat Russian roulette because you don’t really know what you’re going to get. The thing is, if you mix enough herbs in it, it can actually be quite delicious. The salad was nice and fresh, while the tabbouleh was well made. The garlic sauce had sufficient garlic in it, however, it was a bit runny.

I’m really tough on food hygiene and this place failed. The dish itself was OK, but I’ve had so much better elsewhere.

WHERE: Myer Centre Food Court