Real Doner (Gyro)<\/strong> Real Doner Counter<\/p><\/div>\n I figured I would have hummus and other standard Middle Eastern fare, while my family and the friend who joined us would have meat dishes (the ones reviewers were raving about).\u00a0 To my dismay though, the owner informed me that they added mayonnaise to the hummus and baba ganoush.\u00a0 Even a touch of mayo is a no-no because Miriam reacts to the tiniest bit of eggs, including when I eat it.<\/p>\n As we spoke further, I discovered food allergies also ran in her family and she turned out to be very knowledgeable about how to put together substitutes.\u00a0 I ordered the eggplant salad and falafel but she made me an amazing meal that didn’t feel like second best at all.<\/p>\n Falafel with salad<\/p><\/div>\n I got five large beautiful falafels, perfectly cooked in oil that does not see egg or wheat batter, pickled red cabbage, cucumbers, and a lettuce and tomato salad.\u00a0 My only regret was not getting several containers of the delicious vegan tahini dressing.<\/p>\n Eggplant salad<\/p><\/div>\n The menu claims the eggplant salad is pureed, but this one was certainly not.\u00a0 Perhaps the best eggplant salad I’ve ever had.\u00a0 Cooked just so with a hint of heat.<\/p>\n Michael ordered the chicken shish kebab and Miriam ate from both our plates.<\/p>\n Chicken shish kebab<\/p><\/div>\n Our friend got the Cigarette Borek and some lovely looking bread.<\/p>\n Cigarette Borek<\/p><\/div>\n Bread<\/p><\/div>\n I didn’t taste the meat or bread dishes but the others liked them very much.<\/p>\n My only complaint about the place is that service is extremely slow.\u00a0 I think it took about half an hour to get our food after ordering, even though the only other people in there were served a couple minutes after we arrived.\u00a0 Everything is made to order and is extremely fresh, but I hope they find a way to speed things up without cutting corners.\u00a0 The long wait is part of why I haven’t been back yet, though the food is calling to me.<\/p>\n Menu, outer page<\/p><\/div>\n Menu, inner page<\/p><\/div>\n Chowhound Places<\/a> A few months ago, a new cafe opened in downtown Petaluma near Walnut Park.\u00a0 Foodies in the know thrill because the owners are family of the owners of a now-defunct Turkish restaurant in Santa Rosa, Real Gryo, which I never had the pleasure of trying.\u00a0 Real Doner is a small place with a deli feel.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,32,40],"tags":[7,6,8,11,86,61,77,59,5,12],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-restaurant","category-sfba","tag-dairy-free","tag-egg-free","tag-gluten-free","tag-lowcarb","tag-middle-eastern-food","tag-petaluma","tag-photos-food","tag-sonoma-county","tag-vegan","tag-vegetarian"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":776,"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions\/776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n307 F St, Petaluma, CA 94952
\n(707) 765-9555
\nOpen daily: 7 am – 7 pm<\/p><\/blockquote>\n![\"Real](\"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/real_doner_counter_0812.jpg\" "\\"real_doner_counter_0812\\"")
<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>Reviews:<\/h3>\n
\nChowhound: Real Doner (Gyro) is destination worthy … amazing great<\/a>
\nChowhound: Real Gyro Re-Opens<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"