After being endorsed on this thread I visited Spitz yesterday. Went for lunch, the line was so long it was out of the door. Waited for 5 mins without any movement and said "**** it", I am not waiting half an hour just to be able to order a doner and then wait another 15 mins to be done. Came in the evening and the place had much less trafic. So, really it is not an ethnic place. Its a fusion-doner. They serve high end beer plus whiskeys, plus coctails and has an ultra-modern interior. Thats fine with me. I ordered their most popular doner, the "Street doner" on a thin pita, made of lamb/beef with regular french fries. The thing is good, but its definetely not your ordinary turkish doner. The meat of mine tasted exactly like Gyro. It looked the same too. And anyone who knows doners, would know that it is NOT gyro... This said, it was really good, will definetely go there again. The fries were amazing, the aeoli or whatever high end garlic fry sauce they have was very very good.
I didn't know shawarma and doner are the same thing. If you want good shawarmas in SLC, try O'Falafel's beef shawarma. Its really good and very close to what i've had in Israel. The owner is from Egypt, so you get the Egyption version... Mazza of course until Ali jacked up the prices. Haven't been there in years. Back in the country I come from the best doners were made by Syrians. Chicken and beef... I drool just thinking about them. The ones I've had in Germany were also amazing, as everyone on this thread that has had them confirms...
One of the best Doners and generally middle easter food i've had here in the states has been Amir's Falafel in LA. In a strip mall, obscure, it has the best doners I've had on this side of the pond....