The Yiros Shop has just opened up a new location in Newmarket and to celebrate they will be giving out free yiros tonight.
Christmas has come early! Get there and be in the line up to get 1x FREE YIROS. Yes Free. We aren't blowing smoke up your you know where. It is F R E E. Tell your friends cos we wanna feed you! Enjoy chicken, lamb, fish, pork, haloumi or vegetarian patty yiros!
Shop 131, Newmarket Village, 400 Newmarket Road, 4051 Newmarket, Australia
Ha, thanks.
mmm…..Gyros
mmm…we call them kebabs here in Sydney.
a kebab is not a yiros
A kebab is a yiros. I hear people saying they are different all the time. I'm from Adelaide, live in Perth, and they're exactly the same. Maybe there are different varieties, maybe Sydney is different, but if it is meat from a spit, and it gets rolled up in a flat/pita bread thing, with tomatoes, lettuce and tabouli, and garlic sauce, then kebabs and yiroses are the same.
@legionarypullo: Its quite simple.
Yiros - Shaved meat off a rotisserie spit in a pita (can also get bread roll in Greece but pita is most common).
Souvlaki - By definition is skewered meat.. chunks of meat on a stick. NOT MINCE EVER.
Neither ever have Tabouli or "garlic sauce". Just a good thick Tzatziki.
I won't comment on Kebabs but from the few i've eaten… They are nothing like greek Yiros or souvlaki.
Melbourne calls a Yiros a "Souvlaki".. LOL
Sydney calls them Kebabs predominantly.
Again incorrect.
Adelaide is quite accurate by calling a Kebab a Kebab and a Yiros generally a Yiros.
For some odd reason it is very hard to find a Souvlaki in a pita… Especially pork.
Go to Greece and see.
@Extremecable: Thanks for the explanation, Extreme Cable. So while there is a difference, the terms are often incorrectly used throughout Australia, meaning that a Yiros, Souvlaki and Kebab shop often serve the same thing, with different (incorrect) labels?
Kebab/Souvlaki. Nothing like a Yiros
pfft…. a dodgy disgusting kebab tastes NOTHING like a yiros or souvlaki.
Extremecable explained it well.
A souvlaki is lamb (grilled, not from a meat roll), but has no chips inside. Has lettuce, onions, tomato, tzatziki (which should have plenty of garlic in it).
A yiros is either lamb or pork, (off a meat roll), and definitely has chips inside. No lettuce, but has the onions, tomato and tzatziki.
The breads are also a little bit different. The souvlaki bread is thinner but longer, and the yiros is thicker and shorter.
A Kebab is crap in comparison and is very different. The bread is wafer thin, it's got too much extras like cheese, humous, and flavoured sauce (because the meat itself is dry and also shaved very thin, not chunky shaved like a yiros). Without a decent sauce the whole thing would taste like cardboard, so the sause is pretty much the only thing in the kebab that gives it decent flavour.
But very different.
When i go to Melbourne, its a Souvlaki I'll find (not the crap in town, its in the takeaways at Thomastown or Lalor).
Here in ACT, its a Yiros from Ela Yiro in Gungahlin. I'm salivating just thinking about it!
Thanks for the explanation UFO. One thing I'll contest though is that Adelaide yiroses never have chips in them. Whether or not that means they are technically incorrect yiroses, I dont know.
@legionarypullo: yeah that's right… But last couple years some new places have opened and doing chips.
I want to go but not sure if it's gonna be a massive lineup. If someone is there soonish post a comment and let us know how bad the line is
The lineup is over an hour long. You'd have to be fkn desperate
is it really that long?
Cheers for letting people know.
I went to Maccas instead and completed my coke glass collection… twice… and then with another spare glass for work.
this is great news! i missed the deal and live nearby but dont feel bad anymore :)
I was gonna go but that line will be excruciatingly long.
There's a place called Infernos in Western Sydney. Worth going to. Yummy greek food and skewers. Their Gyros are great.
great, the one day im too busy to check ozbargain and i miss a good free deal just down the road. I want to break something
Adjusted the title if that's all good because it's Newmarket in Brisbane, not Newtown, Neil.