Over two decades ago, three Egyptian immigrants- Mohamed Abouelenein from Cairo, and Ahmed Elsaka and Abdelbaset Elsayed, from Alexandria opened a food cart on the southwestern corner of 53rd Street and the Avenue of the Americas. They began serving platters of lamb and chicken slaughtered in accordance with Islamic law, steeped in Middle Eastern spices and striped with a mysterious and mighty white sauce. The main reason the Halal Guys began their street carts was too feed cab drivers, but now over the years they feed anyone that wants to taste their food. The menu of the Halal Guys carts includes “lamb, roasted on a rotating spit and chopped to bits before a final crisping on a flat-top frill; chicken, simply grilled;
Over two decades ago, three Egyptian immigrants- Mohamed Abouelenein from Cairo, and Ahmed Elsaka and Abdelbaset Elsayed, from Alexandria opened a food cart on the southwestern corner of 53rd Street and the Avenue of the Americas. They began serving platters of lamb and chicken slaughtered in accordance with Islamic law, steeped in Middle Eastern spices and striped with a mysterious and mighty white sauce. The main reason the Halal Guys began their street carts was too feed cab drivers, but now over the years they feed anyone that wants to taste their food. The menu of the Halal Guys carts includes “lamb, roasted on a rotating spit and chopped to bits before a final crisping on a flat-top frill; chicken, simply grilled;