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Chicken Pita with chopped salad, amethyst cabbage, sumac, onions, Middle Eastern pickles, s’khug and Harissa sauce, at Naf Naf Grill in Mount Laurel.(Photo: Jose F. Moreno.Staff Photographer)

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If all McDonald’s aback adapted into outposts of Naf Naf Grill, I wouldn’t be mad.

OK, maybe I’d absence my accidental splurge on a Sausage McMuffin. Naf Naf isn’t a breakfast atom anyway. But for quick, fill-you-up meals, it’s bigger than Mickey D’s in so abounding ways.

Being convalescent isn’t alike the best notable one. It’s all about acidity satisfaction.

Granted, the fast-growing fast-casual alternation — 29 locations and counting — is added like Chipotle than McD’s in its architecture and format. Choose your abject (hummus, pita, couscous, rice, lettuce), add your protein (falafel, craven shawarma, beef shawarma), add your toppings and sauces ($6.95-$8.55).

But the Middle Eastern Aliment at Naf Naf is added acceptable than burrito bowls anytime administer to be.

It hits all those addendum that American palates accept been accomplished by years of fast aliment munching to seek out. Salty, meaty, crunchy, spicy, all begin actuality in dishes fabricated beginning appropriate in advanced of you in the clean, accessible kitchen that stretches abaft the adjustment line. Another benefit: Portions are almost large, but won’t leave you activity overstuffed.

Veggie Feast : hummus, baba ganoush, chop salad, amethyst cabbage, sumac onion, Middle Eastern pickles, topped with olive oil, as served at Naf Naf Grill in Mount Laurel. (Photo: Jose F. Moreno.Staff Photographer)

My admired best at the Mount Laurel Naf Naf was by the falafel, by far.

The golden-brown assurance of arena chickpea and spices weren’t dense, a accepted atrophy back it comes to falafel, but instead bankrupt accessible calmly to acknowledge aerial blooming interiors. Ask for them in a pita (extremely bendable and broiled on armpit throughout the day), band on some tomato-cuke chopped bloom and brittle amethyst cabbage, dress the accomplished affair with tahini and ablaze red harissa and achieve in for a cafeteria affair that’s adamantine to beat.

Be forewarned: The harissa is spicy!

The calefaction from this acceptable North African chile booze was a acceptable surprise. Too generally chains impaired bottomward their allegedly hot condiments for abhorrence of axis bodies off, but this was aloof appropriate — not mouth-searing, but absolutely abundant to accomplish your aftertaste buds sit up and booty notice.

Naf Naf Grill in Mount Laurel offers Middle Eastern aliment in a fast accidental environment. (Photo: Jose F. Moreno.Staff Photographer)

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Same for the blooming booze that’s based on a accepted Yemenite compound of jalapenos and cumin. Called s’khug, it was one of the sauces served at the aboriginal Naf Naf, which buddies Sahar Sander and Elan Burger opened in 2008 in Naperville, Illinois.

The marigold-colored amba booze was a added contempo addition, a acceptable one. Fabricated with mango and vinegar, it’s like the Middle Eastern adaptation of candied and sour, and it makes for a admirable dip for the Naf fries.

Naf chips ($2.75) deserve a agenda of their own — they’re what had me alike because a bandy with McDonald’s in the aboriginal place. Served in abundantly abounding cardboard cones, they abatement about amid potato chips and matchsticks.

When hot and fresh, these chips are like affair your admired bite for the aboriginal time all over again. Tip: If you eat in at one of 75 or so Formica seats in the large, windowed dining area, cascade them out on a basin or napkin to accumulate them from accepting mushy.

Another, convalescent snack: The ancillary allocation of baba ganoush ($4.25), which had a affluent broiled sesame association that perked up this apotheosis of the eggplant dip. It’s alike bigger with s’khug, and that ancillary allocation comes with a accomplished pita, authoritative it a applicable meal on its own.

Basmati rice, Naf chips and hummus are amid the offerings at Naf Naf Grill in Mount Laurel. (Photo: Jose F. Moreno.Staff Photographer)

S’khug was additionally the key to activation a pita abounding with beef shawarma, while the buttery garlic booze was the (not-spicy) way I woke up a couscous basin with chicken.

In general, the meat itself was the alone affair I approved that aghast me, because I begin both the beef and craven hardly rubbery. Alike so, it wasn’t bad — abnormally nestled with beginning grains and veggies (pickles and sumac-spiced onions are added veg topping options).

But I had the activity it could accept been abundant better. So did Naf Naf co-CEO David Sloan, one of the two aboriginal investors who angry what was aloof a hole-in-the-wall collective abreast his appointment into a hot cast with accelerated amplification plans.

“Was it not actual active back you were there?” Sloan asked me back I acclaimed the meats had been biconcave out of a beef table, area it looked like they’d been sitting for some time.

“Mount Laurel is absolutely our atomic active abundance in the region,” he said. “If you had appear in back it was busier, or gone to the city Philly location, you would’ve gotten meat that was aloof baldheaded (off the shawarma cone).”

Hear that South Jersey? Time to get over to Naf Naf Grill.

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The added bodies go, the bigger the aliment will be — and it’s already appealing great.

Baklava is a candied catastrophe to a meal at Naf Naf Grill in Mount Laurel. (Photo: Jose F. Moreno.Staff Photographer)

Danya Henninger reviews New Jersey restaurants for the Courier-Post. She is a above New Yorker who was blessed to ascertain the wonders of South Jersey back she confused there 19 years ago. She now lives in Philadelphia with her A/V-writer husband, area she is ability editor for Billy Penn and writes about beer. Reach her at danyahenninger@gmail.com with questions, tips or comments.

Dining Review

Naf Naf Grill

7000 Midlantic Dr. #100, Mount Laurel

nafnafgrill.com or (856) 258-0711

Cuisine: Middle Eastern fast casual

Food: ★★★½

Atmosphere: ★★½

Service:★★★

Value: ★★★★½

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