Our interior looks like a chain, with an ordering counter, color coordinated signs and little slogans that veer between cheery and cringe-y (“love at first bite”). This is a family-run business — and the Fayad family has never worked in the food industry before.

Board Bites’ recipes come from family tradition; Sabah Fayad says they’re “picked up from our aunts and grandmothers.” Although the gyro meat blend comes from a supplier, Board Bites is proud to make just about everything else in-house, particularly the shawarma, which Hassan Fayad slices off the bone, marinates and grills himself. Part of the reason the meats stay so tender is that they’re all grilled rather than stacked on a vertical broiler cone.