Halal Desi Pizza & Gyro’s

A big disappointment. We went here to try their NY GYRO. It was gross. I am from NY and this was nowhere close to NY Gyro. The rice was soggy and the sauces were sweet. The hot sauce is supposed to be hot and the white sauce should be sour! I don’t understand why they were sweet! The meat was also cut very small. No one would eat this in NY! We also tried their chicken wings. They were crispy. They lacked seasoning and dripped with oil. We left feeling gross. I really wish people would figure out how to properly make something before referring it as something else; NY GYRO.

I might say this a lot, but Desi Pizza is Pure Hamtramck™.
From the misspelled name (gyro is plural, not possessive) to the huge and almost confusing menu (anything from quesadillas to chinese food) to the weird and wacky customers, it all screams Hamtramck.
This place is busy! The food is cheap and plentiful and pretty damn good. I got two samosas (crisp, flaky, a little spicy), a garlic bread (sesame seeds, toasted) and a pizza boat (a calzone with tasty dough and totally filled) for less than ten bucks.
I waited amongst a crew with weird hair, ill-​fitting clothes and boring conversations (along with a handful of normal looking folks) about 20 – 25 minutes for my order. Considering that only two people were manning the whole store, it was pretty good timing. The girl who took my order was friendly, maybe a little exasperated, but on top of what she was doing.
I live pretty close to here, and it’s across from Steve’s liquor store, so there’s lots of reasons to stop. I also recommend the Chicken 65! Spicy, full of veggies, with great fried rice, also cheap and so filling.

O my! This place is so random. After going to the Planet Ant, my friend and I came here because he said they have the best rice. When I heard him say this I thought, «I love middle eastern rice! Let’s go!» There is a parking lot — sketch and the place is sketch. Anyway, this place is so random. When my friend said rice he meant Chinese fried rice! I was laughing internally! Their menu is so the most random thing ever. Pizza, hot dogs, gyro’s, fried rice… Anyway, place is made for possible armed robberies so it is a bit sketchy but the people behind the steel barrier seems pretty nice.
$ 6 plus change for some fried rice with a middle eastern twist. Good deal. They use middle eastern rice and a lot soy sauce but it was good. Enough to feed me twice.

Tried this restaurant based on Unilocal reviews and friends’ recommendations, i give it 3 stars solely based on food, this is the type of place where there’s no point rating location, ambience or service! Its a take out place after all!
Well, i’m no stranger to tiny shady indian food places, when u try such place u should adjust ur standards, this place looked clean enough to me!
We tried their best things i guess, the gyro rice thing, beef and chicken samosa and the chicken tikka masala! The gyro rice was good, i asked for extra sauce and it was yummy, i found the amount of meat little though.
Samosas are not that good, too oily, i like the spicy filling, but the amount of oil was scary plus the oil stank while they were being fried!
I tried half a slice of the pizza, at first i was like what is that but then u actually realize its an OK combination!
So overall the food was good, but nothing i would get out of my way to have!

New york chkn n rice, extra spicy extra, extra chkn, extra white and red, with 65 sauce on side best food, waters my mouth just thinking about it (no joke)

This place may not be the ideal place to sit down and eat, but it is certainly a place to grab food from and go.
Whenever I was in New York, I would always order Gyro off of the street vendors. In Detroit, I cant find good Gyro anywhere! This place has the best! The meat is cooked to perfection, the rice is fragrant, and the sauce is creamy!
They also sell Chicken 65, which is also the best I’ve tasted so far. It is very spicy and makes your mouth water.
Desi Pizza also sells pizza, but theyre not as good as their other menu items.

Great Food! I work and go to school in the area, this reminds me of some street food from ny or chicago, plus its halal! NY style gyro or chicken and rice are the best dishes IMO, but pizza and wings are killer as well. All food is also very well priced.

These guys are so nice and offer amazing service. Food is consistently good every time. I eat here A LOT. mainly their amazing value, New York gyro chicken and rice just like from the halal carts in the city! Its always good. it’s authentic!!! They even get their gyro imported from New York. You can’t go wrong. and its enough food for 2 – 3 meals. They deliver as well for a really cheap price. Everything on the menu I’ve tired has been excellent. Never had a bad experience. And try the cheesecake.

Only place in Michigan to get New York City street food-​style chicken and rice; and gyro and rice. So good. Ready in 10 minutes and only $ 4.99. And the owner is cute and nice, so it’s a small business I am happy to support.

Great menu, huge selection. Excellent food and service! Would highly recommend!

Love love and love their chicken Tikka Pizza. Also chicken pizza with jalapeño and pineapple. The price is good, the service is OK (they delivered wrong pizza once but gave us a free pizza as an apology). My only complain would be the gyro rice. The rice is never really cooked thoroughly. Therefore you can taste the crunchiness. But I love their gyro meat and sauce. They were AMAZING. Overall I’ll go there again and again. except won’t order anything with rice.

Vikram and I found this place amusing… and one late night we decided to stop here. Because the idea of a «desi pizza» could mean soooooo many things. Like it could be ultimate win or ultimate FAIL. We saw actual Indians running the joint, so we figure — why not?
This was pretty in between. They had these samosas out that Vikram refused to let me order. And it’s pretty sketchy and definitely been to cleaner taco shacks… but hey, why not. What’s the worst that could happen? Food poisoning, pfft. Been there, done that.
They had a chicken tikka pizza. Now this sounds like this could be really wrong, right? But that’s what people first said about barbecue chicken pizza! This is even less extreme than that. It’s just chicken tikka sliced up with green peppers and onions. It’s pretty damn tasty.
However — I always have to consider morning after goodness. It was a soggy hot ass mess. As in inedible straight from the fridge to my mouth = into the garbage!
Great experiment, chicken tikka pizza is a win combo, but it could be better.

When multiple cultures influence each other, good things happen to the food. Case in point is Hamtramck’s latest, Desi Pizza, where Bangladesi cuisine influences good old American fast food favorites, like pizza, hamburgers, and fried rice. Truth be told, there are so many food cultures influencing each other around here, it would border on the ridiculous to mention them all — so we’ll pretend it’s a straight Bangla-U.S. cross section.
This carryout-​only restaurant provides Halal-​quality meat, and that means good quality. I’ve only tried the chicken tikka pizza so far, but I was very happy with the marriage of the spices of chicken tikka on a medium-​thickness seasoned pizza crust — nicely balanced and complementary flavors. They also offer halal-​quality hamburgers and lamb burgers, and some Chinese favorites such as fried rice and noodles, a couple of Mexican offerings, Coney dogs, shakes (with flavors such as mango, blueberry, and banana), and samosas influenced by Detroit flavors: that means chili-​cheese samosas. Can’t wait to try that!
With such a diverse menu, my only concern is that they might be spreading themselves a bit too thin. Time will tell and if the menu eventually shrinks, I would not be surprised. However, we will take advantage of their bounty while we can and hope for the best. I am very pleased to add them to Unilocal.
Oh yeah: Free delivery on orders more than $ 10 within the geographic area.
Added: Tikka pizza is great cold!
Also added: The chili-​cheese samosas were a revelation! They should sell them as a special on Superbowl Sunday, but if they don’t you should buy a quantity for your own party!