Falaffel King

For me it was just so so, went for the Shawarma dinner, came with hummus some salad and sub fries, also ordered a side of garlic sauce, veggie grape leaves, and falafel, they are the king right. Well no, the falafel was the biggest let down dry no flavor and not cooked that well, tasted like I could of made them at home, followed closely by the garlic sauce yucky taste with little bits in it, not very garlicky at all, and the chicken, yea they give you a lot, but it’s kinda dry and again not much flavor. But I did pick up these cheese bread thingies that were good, but it was $ 30+ plus buck’s, so for me I won’t be rushing back to the king.

FOOD POISONING! Called to let them know and the girl that answered the phone said sorry and hung up! nice way to treat your customer — and yes this was the only food eaten.

I love this place. Family owned and they are nice. Food is consistent and always good. Seasoned perfectly. Fast and reasonably priced. Garlic sauce is the best.

The best falafel sandwich I’ve ever had! They prepare your food quick and you can either eat in or take your food to go.

They give a very large quantity of food for each carry out order. Chicken was on the dry side but the flavor was very good.

Best sandwiches I’ve ever had. Shawarma is amazing. Place is best suited for carry out

Ordered a chicken shawarma fattoosh salad and it was just okay. The chicken was good but the dressing they give you was super small and was lacking flavor. It didn’t taste anything like fattoosh dressing. It was just OK in my opinion, nothing to go crazy over

Took my coworkers for lunch and they loved it. The service was great and lunch was amazing lots of flavour in food and the falafel was fresh

This is great food with reasonable portions at an accessible price point. The falafel is the best I’ve ever had. The chicken shwarma is great. The garlic sauce is fabulous. Grape leaves are very good too. I suggest the Vegetarian Sample which will feed 2 people, easily, and includes: tabbouleh, hummus, falafel, grape leaves, pickled veggies and pita, all for ten bucks. This is primarily a take out joint so don’t expect 4 star ‘wait on you’ service. They do brisk business at lunch, but the staff is kind and generous – and more importantly: the food is tasty. I’ve been ordering from here for 4 years now (my office is down the block) and I’ve never had a disappointing meal.

Love to stop in here and grab some delicious and healthy middle eastern food.
Salads, sandwiches and soups are outstanding.

Perfect suburban date night! We ordered to-​go and watched the classic cars cruise along Woodward Ave. The creamiest hummus I’ve ever had. The most flavorful grape leaves I’ve ever had. The pickles are INSANE – they blew my mind. My salad was fresh; my Pellegrino soda was the perfect compliment to my meal. The service was impeccable! We were lucky enough to get a free cheese pie after chatting with the staff! Condiments were SO complex and yummy. It’s obvious there is love in every bite. I intend to try everything on the menu.

Ate falafel King and Queen… and it was divine. The one thing I’d say is call it in early and then pick up.

Best chicken shawarma sandwich in town.

I love this place. I’m in the home improvements business and whenever I’m working in the area I always make it a point to stop in. The chicken shawarma is my go to it’s delicious and filling. You can get some really good food for what you’d end up paying for a value meal at the drive through.

Great middle eastern food. The lady who took my order was hard to understand, but she was very friendly and helpful. Got Beef Kafta and was very happy. A tad pricy, but I’m seeing that seems to be par for Middle Eastern places. The place if nice inside and clean. Mostly carry out, but I would be fine eating in here for lunch. Great Hummus.

Its OKAY…
Bring cash with you in this place. Unless you want to do a ten dollar minimum on your card. They get really upset about it when you order a few things.
The service was eh… not so hot. I was obviously keeping the staff away from something important as they seemed irate that I was there.
There’s no place to sit in this joint. They got these college bar bench things that attach to the wall. You get to sit on these uncomfortable bar stools.
I got that «UNwanted guest feeling»

Some reviews are short & sweet, just like the service and food at Falaffel King.
While in the area that surrounds Royal Oak Beaumont I Unilocaled some spots to grab a quick bite for lunch. I came across what turned out to be a very tasty chicken Shawarma pita. The cook wasted very little time and had the pita ready to go in a matter of minutes. The folks at Falaffel King have a quick & friendly carryout system. The San Pellegrino limonata & pita made for a nice lunch, my only complaint was the pita was not nearly big enough for how good it tasted. I will have to come back to try the Falaffel for sure. 6.46 for a pita & a limonata at lunch was a very good deal.

Outside of Dearborn, it often feels like you’re getting imposter middle eastern food. It’s probably because I’m spoiled with the best. I stumbled across Falaffel King and boy am I happy I did!
This location is one of my favorite carry out spots. Their portions are huge, and their falaffel is the tasty! I usually get the falaffel dinner or the chicken schwarma dinner. Either one of these meals can be easily split between two people, or in my case I take the left overs to work the next day! The schwarma comes with rice, tons of chicken, a mini fattoush salad and of course some delicious hummus. The fallafel has a bunch of veggies in place of the rice to make those cute little falaffel sandwiches. Their garlic sauce is very tasty, but definitely not the authentic stay-​away-​from-​me-​i-​have-​horrible-​breath garlic sauce.
In Royal Oak, this is the place to carry out for middle eastern cuisine! They have a small lobby area, but it’s probably best eaten at home. Service is friendly and fast. Make sure to ask for extra pita!

I am, indeed, quite a fan of FK. To call it «humble» would be extremely generous, as basically, it’s just a hole in the wall, with a few (10?) bar-​type stools at the counter for eating in if that’s what you’d prefer. So, no, as a destination, it’s certainly nothing fancy or beautiful at all.
Gotta love the food, though. I’ll be the first to admit that the chicken shwarma is a bit different than many other places, and that’s just fine by me when you can do it up as well as FK does! Their garlic sauce is a lot more creamy than other places, and I really enjoy it when I’m eating the chicken shwarma… the flavors of the chicken and the spices really meld well with the sauce itself, either in lunch or sandwich form.
The chicken shwarma sandwich itself is very, very different from, say, Bucharest Grill’s version (another winner, but very different) in taste and texture. That’s okay. It tastes great, and the fact that they use dark meat here rather than white meat is attractive to me.
Still pretty inexpensive. A sandwich will run you under $ 5 total out the door. A lunch portion of most things is under $ 8, and it’s *plenty* of good food. I’m also a fan of their fatoosh salad (I sub out the hummus for more fatoosh when ordering the lunch), but their bread is just pre-​made, prepackaged pita bread… nothing great, but certainly not the standard that’s set by most Middle Eastern places with their own bread oven or something like that.
Oh! Almost forgot: their soup is a very, very good deal, too! Satisfying, tasty, and filling, it’s a viable alternative to falafel, shwarma, or anything else. I’ve been known to have a lunch of a large soup with bread and garlic sauce, and leave smiling and full. I believe a large soup is $ 2.99, and a small is $ 1.99. Worth it!
They’ve been around for quite a while, and I’ve been a customer for a number of years. I know it to be clean, friendly, busy, tasty, and inexpensive. It’s not a gloriously extravagant experience… but it’s plenty, plenty good!

I’m going for a stretch, trying beef schwarma at Falaffel King. Verdict… maybe stick with falafel. When I think of schwarma, I always think of the rotating rotisserie. One of the reasons why it’s so effective is that it keeps all the flavor and moisture in the meat. When it’s thinly sliced and put onto a grill, say goodbye to all the juices.
This is the case for their beef schwarma. The flavor with the spices were fine, but because it’s thin and on the grill, it turned out pretty dry and chewy. The rice underneath wasn’t bad, spiced well, but also a little dry.
The salad that came with it had a typical «fattoush» dressing and it probably was the best part of the lunch. It also came with hummus which was creamy and pretty good flavor.
Another disappointment, the garlic dressing. Another Unilocaler pointed it out and they were absolutely right. It tastes like ranch dressing mixed with garlic. I usually wipe the garlic sauce clean, in this case, it’s going in the trash. Don’t worry, I’ll recycle the container!