The Kebab Shop Katy project is bringing a California-born Mediterranean restaurant to The Centre at Parkwest, with plans for a $380,000 finish-out at 24714 Katy Freeway. The draw goes beyond another lunch counter: this is the restaurant that put french fries inside a kebab wrap and turned a San Diego favorite into a multistate business.
The company already lists the Katy restaurant as coming soon. A new state registration now adds the construction scope and estimated schedule for its 2,000-square-foot space near Interstate 10 and Katy Fort Bend Road.
A San Diego wrap with a California twist
The Kebab Shop’s current online menu offers a useful introduction. Its San Diego wrap combines chicken shawarma with fries, feta, vegetables and garlic yogurt. Pickled onions and cabbage slaw bring crunch, while the fries make the filling a clear departure from a simple meat-and-flatbread sandwich.
That combination grew out of an employee habit. In a 2023 interview with Restaurant Business, co-owner Wally Sadat explained that workers were adding fries to their wraps. The restaurant first let customers customize that way, then developed a signature combination with feta and vegetables. The result connected European-style kebabs with the fry-filled California burrito tradition.
There was just as much thought behind the bread. Sadat described years spent developing a thin flatbread with a chewy texture and grilled finish. The aim was to give the filling room to stand out rather than bury it under a heavy wrapper.
Beyond wraps, the current menu includes customizable grain bowls and plates with a choice of protein and two sides. Falafel, hummus, saffron rice and grilled pita provide other ways to build a meal. These are examples from the existing restaurant menu, not a finalized opening menu for Katy.
The family story behind The Kebab Shop
The restaurant traces its roots to San Diego in 2007. Its early growth centered on Tony Farmand and A.J. Akbar, who helped turn a small East Village shop into a larger family-run operation.
In a first-person interview with SDVoyager, Sadat recalled that Farmand, a Holland native, wanted to bring the döner kebabs of his childhood to his new home. Farmand and Akbar had no restaurant experience, so they wrote orders by hand and learned the work station by station.
The Kebab Shop Katy plans carry that idea into another Texas market: familiar ingredients arranged in a way that gives diners something different from their usual sandwich or burger. Today, the company describes its approach as new-school Mediterranean, with restaurants across California, Texas and Florida.
The Kebab Shop Katy plans at Parkwest
Main Street Commercial Partners describes The Centre at Parkwest as two retail buildings totaling about 24,000 square feet, plus two pad sites on roughly 4.5 acres. The development puts several dining spaces along the I-10 frontage near Katy Fort Bend Road.
The conceptual leasing plan places The Kebab Shop at an end of the Pad 1 building, beside an approximately 320-square-foot patio. That offers a more specific picture of the planned setting than the restaurant filing alone. The patio and tenant arrangement remain conceptual leasing details, not a municipal approval.
TCM has also covered Original ChopShop’s plans at The Centre at Parkwest. Together, the projects show how the center’s restaurant lineup is moving from leasing plans into individual interior build-outs.
This filing concerns Parkwest. It is separate from The Kebab Shop’s appearance in marketing for Texas Heritage Marketplace farther west along I-10.
What the construction filing establishes
The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation registration, TABS2027004335, was filed October 23, 2026. It describes an interior finish-out within an existing shell building, lists CLS Parkwest, LP as owner and names The Dimension Group as designer.
The estimated construction window runs from December 1, 2026, through May 1, 2027. Those are construction estimates, not an announced opening date. The filing identifies Suite 500, while the company’s location directory lists Suite 800 at the same street address; the final suite designation remains unresolved.
The Kebab Shop Katy restaurant would extend a Houston-area network that already includes Cypress, Sugar Land, Magnolia, Vintage and West University. For local diners, the story is a new place to try a fry-filled wrap, a bowl or a plate, with a planned patio at a growing restaurant center.
Featured image: Representative The Kebab Shop storefront, not the planned Katy location.