Pita Kitchen

Super good place…
The owner is very kind and the food is really good. The hummus and beef is my favorite. I will recommend my friend to go there!

I wanted a tiny bit of hummus since I bought a falafel pita and was told the only option was to buy a fucking 5 dollar side of hummus. This is some bs scamming… Oh and it’s on a paper plate so forget saving it.

Too pricey. Had the beef kabobs and the steak was burned, and tasted like charred meat. Hummus was good.

This is a good place for good tasting, convenient, medium price food (think if you’re craving a middle eastern version of chipotle). I got the beef kebab plate, the kebab was savory with a nice chargrilled taste on the outside. The rice and tabouli were pretty good. I got baba ganoush as one of the sides and it tasted pre made in a weird mayonnaise-​y way. I would steer away from it and get something else.

Awesome location. Parking lot with an hr free. Got the salad with falafel balls. The salad was good but the balls were too cooked. It was hard to bite into. Their hummus was great!
Friendly staff.

I was really excited to try this place since it’s so close to work and received 4 stars on Unilocal.However, my fellow Unilocalers, you are totally in the wrong on this one. My first impression of Pita Kitchen was WEAK. Here’s why:
I got the Chicken Shawarma with hummus, mediterranean salad, jasmine rice and pita togo. While I was initially impressed by the massive amount of food provided, this is a clear case of quantity over quality. The chicken had a faint curry flavor but overall was probably the dullest shawarma I’ve ever had, in comparison to that of Zankou’s in LA and The Halal Guys in NY. Yes, high standards, but Pita Kitchen doesn’t even make the average rating for me. I can’t tell, but if I didn’t know any better, the hummus was store-​bought. The single pita was definitely store-​bought and overheated. I couldn’t decide on the second side, so the cashier recommended the mediterranean salad. Horrible recommendation! Talk about a sorry excuse for a salad. Just a bunch of cucumber lightly doused with what tasted and felt like sour water.
What makes all these traits worse is that they charge upwards of $ 10 – 12 a plate. Yes, these are typical Beverly Hills prices, but you gotta step your game up if you’re going to charge that much for what seems to be worth $ 7 a plate at most. Props to the big serving of food, which lasted me for two meals, but I’ll stick to Zankou’s.

Hands down best shawarma laffa I’ve had in LA. Not to mentioned the huge portions you get. All the food puts me in a food coma for only 10 $ parking is a bit of a hassle but def worth it.

Quality, fast yet average Mediterranean food. For a quick bite before visiting the Museums or attending some business in the Wilshire-​Museum Row area it’s ideal. However, I wouldn’t drive out of your way for it.

There’s few things better for a quick satisfying meal than a falafel sandwich, in my humble opinion. Makes me happy. The falafel sandwich here has cucumbers tomatoes tahini sauce and falafels which I got in a pita for $ 5.99. Supremely satisfied I am with its simplicity. I took the sandwich home and added hot sauce and it was the best. Will definitely return though I would love to see if I could add some more toppings for next time.

This was my first visit. I had the chicken shawarma pita sandwich. The chicken had a burnt smell and slight taste/​aftertaste of burnt. Maybe they just had a bad day with the chicken? It also had curry on it which I don’t care for at all. The lettuce, hummus and pita were good. Service was good, I ordered over the phone for pick up and the lady was nice. I may try something else from there next time.

Pita kitchen is a must for Mediterranean food!
First of all they have the best chicken shawarma. Which was well cooked and had a lot of flavor.
Second, the hummus is the best hummus in L.A.
Third, the service is fantastic.
Fourth, it has really good parking compared to the other places in L.A. Compared to other restaurants.
Strongly recommend everyone to try this place if your looking for a good Mediterranean food restaurant.

The place is pretty good for the price. The quality of food and service is 3 out of 5 but good prices and good portions push it up to 3.5 so rounding it up to 4.

We were lured in by the Unilocal reviews when in need of dinner in the area. Sorry but I’d say «mediocre» at best. Here’s what we had and what we thought:
1) Grilled Tilapia: fishy and over cooked
2) Hummus: bland and mass-​produced tasting.
3) Roasted chicken: over cooked and dry.
4) Pita: ok for store bought.
5) Spanish eggplant: very very little eggplant in a base of canned tomatoes mixed with a lot of paste, some garlic and onion. No subtlety and just sort of really sweet from the paste. Like they didn’t sauté the garlic and onion enough and used too much tomato/​paste, not enough to eggplant.
6) Green cabbage salad: I normally LOVE this. It’s cabbage with mostly vinegar and mystery spices. This didn’t have enough vinegar and was very strongly dill flavored.
7) Red cabbage salad: did not expect this to be mayo-​based. Still, that would be fine but it was really bland. Didn’t taste of anything except that vaguely bitter red cabbage taste.
8) Rice: by far the best thing and still «OK.»
Skip it.

Shish Kabob and Falafel sandwiches were large, favorable and satisfying. beef was tender and succulent and Falafel balls were hot and freshly made.

Pita Kitchen is awesome!
What’s so awesome about it:
1. Parking — parking is big deal in Mid-​City West, especially on Wilshire, so the plaza where restaurant is has lots of parking spaces and when I came (around 4 or 5 pm) there were 30% of parking spaces available
2. Staff — the lady that took my order was friendly and super nice
3. FOOD — that’s what matters most and everything was just perfect!
I got something called «meat plate» or «meat combo» where you choose two sides and two meats.
So I got chicken shawarma + beef shish kabob + hummus + falafel. The plate was gigantic and everything was perfectly cooked and delicious. Actually it was so gigantic I wanted to fall asleep in the next few hours.
When I’ll be back, I’ll take half of this plate to go and still will be full with another half.
Definitely 5 stars and coming back for sure

I come here pretty frequently, used to come when it was called Chapa Grill, and man do I really like this place. The two main reasons I thoroughly enjoy coming here is because 1. It is walking distance from my work 2. It’s pretty darn cheap.
My go to meal here is the spicy chicken wings with two sides, French fries and broccoli, which comes out to $ 7.50 after tax. I know what you must be thinking «the portions must be small,» nope! The portions are very generous here. On top of the ones with the two sides you get an order of rice and pita bread to go with it. They also have tons of sauces you can request. My two favorite here are the garlic spread and the hot sauce. Garlic seriously just makes everything so much better.
You’re also probably thinking why I don’t get the hummus here. Well, while the hummus is pretty darn delicious here I just prefer the French fries and brocolli, but maybe I’m just crazy. Two of the other popular things here are the beef and chicken shawarma. I’d suggest getting either or the two in a falafel wrap, which is about $ 10 here. If you’ve never had one, it’s basically a middle eastern burrito.
It’s never crowded and the employees here are extremely nice, don’t hesitant to ask questions or make special requests.

This place could improve on a few things. The staff is nice… But the food is not that great. The Greek salad tasted like it needed or was missing something and the rice was terrible — borderline overcooked. I’ll give them 2 stars because I really enjoyed the humus and chicken shawarma. They give you a lot of food… But I didn’t enjoy it enough to want to keep my leftovers.

I just got a chicken salad to go from this place. Multiple pieces of the chicken were not cooked all the way through… and I only noticed this after eating a ¹⁄₃ of the salad. Disgusting and unsanitary. EWW. Also, the salad was supposed to come with cheese and dressing but neither is on here.
Edited to add: I called and asked to speak with the manager. I explained that I’d been given raw chicken. He then made me wait several mins on the line while I could hear him speak to a laughing woman in the background. When I asked for a refund, he said he’d call me back. Not feeling too optimistic that I will get my $ 11 back.

Best Mediterranean food in LA! Wish they delivered!
Been eating at the Van Nuys location for 16 years and have always been happy! So happy they have this new location!

The Sherman Oaks location was my favourite spot to eat when I lived in the valley. Came in here tonight & was thrilled when I was told it’s the same restaurant, just a second location!