What is the place?
Starting as a mobile unit on the University of Vermont campus in the 1989—“We were doing food trucks before it was cool,” according to co-owner Lars Murdock—Ahli Baba’s Kabob Shop opened a brick-and-mortar location on Main Street in Burlington in the mid-1990s.
Ahli Baba’s has long been popular with college kids, Murdock said. That’s especially true in non-pandemic times, when the bars close at 2 a.m. and hungry students swarm the streets. Murdock, who owns the eatery with Oliver Oates, said professionals in downtown offices are also regular customers.
The menu on the wall Wednesday listed items ranging from gyros with seasoned pork and beef to steak and chicken kabobs, falafel, Greek salad and a new item on the regular menu, eggplant croquettes.