Shawarma Queen

Shawarma Queen is a newer Mediterranean spot tucked into the strip-mall stretch of Jimmy Lee Smith Parkway in west Paulding County. The address straddles the Hiram/Dallas line — the restaurant's own Facebook page lists Dallas, GA, and Yelp pins it at 2536 Charles Hardy Pkwy nearby — but the dining room serves the same suburban corridor either way, and the phone number is the constant. The menu is a tight Mediterranean lineup: chicken and lamb shawarma, jumbo gyros, falafel, and chicken-and-rice plates, with a Philly cheesesteak crossover for the kid in your party who isn't sold on tahini. Per online ordering platforms, most plates fall in the $12-$18 range. Hours run long — 11:30 a.m. to midnight Monday through Saturday, with an earlier 9:30 p.m. close on Sundays — which makes this one of the few late-night sit-down options in Hiram that isn't a national chain. The current ActiveDiner deals are buy-one-get-one offers on quesadillas and on a sweet honey-and-nut pie, both useful if you're feeding two people on one entree price.