Bab's Greek BBQ review

Bab's Greek BBQ, a popular food truck specialising in Greek street food. When it comes to the Greek Australian community, this food truck can be recognised in an instant. Their affordable prices and quality of products draw you in immediately, not even mentioning the infectious smell coming from that grill. Owned and run by a husband and wife team, their food truck can be found at Adelaide's food truck festivals and Greek community festivals as well. Nowadays, amongst this pandemic, they have planted themselves at 104 Henley Beach road, Mile End, on the parking lot of St George.

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Before I go into talking about how their food was, can we talk about these prices?

In my opinion, food truck prices appear to be somewhat inflated, without enough satisfaction for the amount of money you could pay for one food item.

Bab's Greek BBQ boasts actually reasonable prices for a traditional souvlaki, $10 for one with a variety of filling.

I walked away from the truck with one chicken fillet souvlaki, one pork belly souvlaki with a side of hot chips as well. $23 for a satisfying amount of food for someone like me felt like delicious value.

Both souvlakia came with their traditional toppings of tomatoes, red onions (for that little tang) a few hot chips and homemade tzatziki.

The pita bread was was warm and delicious. If anyone knows of the brand Mr Pita, this didn't have the flimsiness of Mr Pita. If it is, extra kudos for making it ten times better. Above that, the use of the fluffy Greek pita bread is vital to a traditional Greek souvlaki. Other yiros shops that use thin yiros bread becomes soggy from the juiciness of the filling to the point where I order a yiros with 2 pita breads.

What I appreciated about both the chicken and pork souvlakia is that they were both topped and wrapped to a tee, meaning that each bite was delicious and there was no meat or condiment juice or leakage at the bottom of the wrapping. Each bite of the delicious saltiness of the meat was combined with the freshness of the tzatziki, with the dill in it helping each bite feel light. And of course, their hot chips were seasoned generously with salt and oregano. Their chips were crunchy at the ends but soft in the middle, which gave an extra bit of texture to the souvlaki. The texture of those chips can satisfy you easily, only $3 people.

The only negatives of the food truck (and they're not even that bad) is that I was told I would have to wait for fresh pork belly. The wait was only 6-ish minutes and absolutely worth the wait. I encourage everyone reading this to make their way to their current location and order a souvlaki from the friendly owners, support your local businesses at this time.

Next time, I have my eyes set on their new loukaniko (sausage) souvlaki.

Yum!