Venerable Brookline shawarma place closes down

It was a really great place several years ago. I used to always stop there if I was in the area. Then the pandemic came, and I didn't get over to Brookline for a few years.

My last visit -- first post-covid -- the place had clearly gone downhill. The falafel was so dry it was inedible; it crumbled into powdery pieces. After that, I'm not surprised to hear that it's gone to the great falafel place in the sky.

to assume that high rent made them die, would that assumption be fair or unfair to the real estate community? I mean, maybe destruction is good, if a few people can benefit from it? I was a humanities major, so I don't know, but I assume that's what one learns in Econ, right?

Shawarma needs no King....

I lived off Shawarma King after moving to Boston two decades ago. No shawarma before or since has come close. Made a return trip after the pandemic after not having been in years and was shocked at how far it had fallen. The place was empty, meat and falafel were dry and flavorless, the familiar faces I had known behind the counter absent, and the current caretakers of the establishment looked beleaguered with a desire to just be free of the place. RIP to an era, and to one of the last genuinely bright spots in our local dining scene.