Most sandwich shops buy their meat pre-sliced and their bread ready-made. Broskies Deli in Sharq built itself on refusing those two steps in particular, and that is what explains why a bite there does not taste like any other bite in Kuwait.
Where it is
Street 19, Kuwait City, in Sharq near the British Embassy. Phone 66222703. The shop opens daily from 8 in the morning to midnight according to its official account. A delivery platform lists a second branch in Salmiya, Anjafa, which we were not able to confirm through the shop’s own channel.
The pastrami
This is the centrepiece. The meat is cured on site and then smoked, rather than bought in smoked. According to an Axios report quoting one of the partners, Yazan Al-Ghabra, the smoker built specifically for them was the first of its kind in Kuwait, and works in batches of around five hundred pounds at a time.
We note here that this report dates to August 2024, so it describes the situation two years ago. The shop has not announced a change since, but we give the date of the source so the reader knows what they are reading.
And the pastrami has not always been on the menu every day. In a shop announcement in August 2025 it was available on Tuesdays and Saturdays only, until it ran out. Anyone making the trip for it specifically would do well to call before setting off, since the schedule may have changed.
The bread they could not find, so they made it
A philly sandwich needs a particular bread: a long seeded roll. Because no supplier in Kuwait made it to the specification they wanted, they taught the recipe to a local Kuwaiti bakery, which now bakes it for them.
This detail is worth pausing on more than it first appears. The bread in a philly is not a wrapper but part of the structure: too soft and it collapses under the meat and cheese, too firm and it pulls moisture out of the filling. Commissioning a roll means the shop decided to control the variable most competitors hand over.
The pickles are likewise made in house, American style, rather than bought in jars.
Menu and prices
The prices below are from a delivery platform and were current at publication. Prices in the shop itself may differ:
- Chopped cheese — 3.500 KD
- The 12 Hour Philly — 3.500 KD
- Broski Royale — 3.250 KD
- Chicken parm — 3.250 KD
- Club — 2.950 KD
- Truffle mac and cheese — 3.250 KD
- Cajun fries — 1.600 KD
- Fries — 1.400 KD
- Latte — 2.200 KD
A note on the prices: a previously published review quoted a higher figure for the chopped cheese. The likelier explanation is that the shop added a smaller size alongside the original rather than cutting the price. We could not confirm which, so we mention both.
The meat blend in the sandwiches includes wagyu, according to the shop.
Who is behind it
Four Kuwaitis who left careers in finance. At founding they brought in Alex McCoy, of Lucky Buns in Washington, to advise on building the kitchen and the menu.
Sources: the shop’s official account; a delivery platform for menu prices; and an Axios report from August 2024 for the smoker and bread details. Prices and hours change, and calling the shop remains the safest check.
The cover photo is illustrative of an American-style pastrami sandwich with a pickled cucumber, and is not from Broskies Deli. Photo by Gerda Arendt, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0.
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