Kabobji

Kabobji has spent more than fifteen years building a reputation on NE 163rd Street as a Lebanese kitchen serious enough to earn catering contracts with Royal Caribbean and the Ritz Carlton, a pedigree that says a lot about the consistency of a restaurant that also handles plenty of everyday takeout orders for North Miami Beach locals. Shawarma carved fresh to order and pita baked daily in house are the two anchor points of the menu, the kind of hands on preparation that separates a real Lebanese kitchen from a fast casual Mediterranean chain riding the same trend. Everything on the menu is prepared halal, which matters to a substantial portion of the local customer base in a county with a growing Muslim population alongside its large Orthodox Jewish community.

The restaurant has built an unusually large public following for a single location Lebanese spot, with more than 4,000 Google reviews accumulated over its run, a volume that puts it in rare company among independent North Miami Beach restaurants. Daily hours running from 11 in the morning until 11 at night give it a long service window that covers lunch, dinner, and the kind of late evening cravings that keep a shawarma spot busy well after typical dinner hours end. Vegan options on the menu broaden its appeal beyond the meat forward shawarma and kebab dishes that usually define Lebanese restaurants.

Beyond the daily menu, Kabobji has built out a full catering and events side of the business, hosting parties and handling large scale catering orders that draw on the same fresh carved meats and daily baked pita used in the restaurant. That catering reputation, reinforced by the hospitality industry clients it has served, suggests a kitchen with the infrastructure to scale up production without sacrificing the quality that built its local following in the first place. A rewards program for online orders keeps regular customers coming back, a small but telling detail for a restaurant that has clearly invested in building repeat business rather than relying purely on foot traffic.

For North Miami Beach residents looking for genuine Lebanese cooking, Kabobji is one of the more established names on the 163rd Street corridor, with a track record stretching back more than fifteen years and a reputation solid enough to attract corporate catering clients well beyond the neighborhood. Whether you are stopping in for a quick shawarma wrap or booking catering for a larger event, the restaurant’s emphasis on fresh, made to order preparation is the through line that has kept it busy for over a decade and a half.