Cateus Pita

By far this is the best middle eastern restaurant you can find around here !! I ran into Cateus Pita when I was going to Xhale hookah lounge early this week. The food was very delicious, def reminds me of the food when I was traveling to Lebanon three years ago, their food is very tasty and the spices makes the perfect combination of the authentic food they serve. I couldn’t resist watching the shawarma cone rotating around the burners. It looked so tasty and it tasted even better! I had the steak shawarma platter, it was served with basmati rice topped with the delicious tahini sauce and yumm. I’m def going back to try more of their authentic dishes ! However, look no further if you’re looking for a real and fresh shawarma around town. I’ve been to few places around Omaha such as El Basha and there’s no way to even compare the quality of the food they have at Cateus Pita ! I highly recommend it to everyone ! Thanks Omaha for having this restaurant ! We def needed a restaurant like that in the city !!

I like to give any new restaurant a while to work-​out any issues before I submit a review, but this place needs work. Being a trained former chef in the business for many years, I understand the complexities and complications when opening a new restaurant
I went in over lunch (only customer there) and ordered the combo grill plate. The cashier said that the food would be about 15 minutes and hoped that was OK. I figured I was getting something very special if I had to wait 15 minutes while the food was being prepared. What I got was a very unappealing plate of 3 different types of grilled meat, a couple of grilled red onion pieces (wish there was more onion), about 6 french fries and 2 very small containers of sauce all piled on a store-​bought piece of flatbread.
The spices used for the 3-​meat grilled plate was delicious, but that is where the excitement ends. The beef shawarma were pieces of tough, chewy, luke-​warm meat that did not seem to be cooked fresh at all. Very tough and full of gristle (I had to vigorously floss after lunch). The chicken (another shawarma I think) was more flavorful, mainly due to the fat that was still attached to the meat. There were a couple of pieces of red onion under the chicken, so I assume were skewered together. The kafta kabob was very flavorful, but I have had much better. All of the meat was served on what I assumed to be store-​bought flatbread or pita. You can usually tell the store bought stuff as it becomes more like soft cardboard after sitting at room temp for after 5 minutes.
The combo plate was very unexciting and the meats were dry, overcooked and tough… but I did like the spice used. There needed to be something fresh and green on the plate to offset the boring brown and tan from the meat and starch that was basically the meal. The very small amount of sauce (tahini and a garlic sauce) needed to be increased in order to swallow the dry meat and bread.
I think the owners and cooks need to make a trip about a mile away to El Basha to learn how to prepare and present this type of Mediterranean food properly. Not impressed and probably won’t return.