Comments on: Olympic Pita Wins Me Over With Laffa & French Fries

By: The Ultimate Israeli Food » Mixed Multitudes – My Jewish Learning: Exploring Judaism & Jewish Life

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:30:01 +0000

[...] heard me, they make the laffa right in front of your eyes. Delicious. Even the non-kosher food blog Midtown Lunch [...]

By: laney

laney — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:23:18 +0000

I went here today and am very pleased. Falafel Laffa and the container of salad for 7 bucks is not bad, and I am saving half of it for dinner.

By: kiko8519

kiko8519 — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:06:19 +0000

I am an avid fan of this site and use it often for lunch ideas but this shawarma sandwich made me register to post a comment. Friggen delicious.

Obviously, the bread and fresh salads are a huge plus, but the meat was delicious too. Ok ok ok, it’s not lamb, but so what? It’s yummy as hell.

Oh well, guess now I’ll start posting more comments from time to time! Olympic Pita aka Baraca = highly recommended by me.

By: Haute Cafe « Man Seeking Coffee

Haute Cafe « Man Seeking Coffee — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:13:50 +0000

[...] which I didn’t try along with a lunch menu I passed over as well. Instead, I opted for the Midtown Lunch recommendation of Baraca/Olympic Pita Falafel with french fries – quite tasty. The iced Americano I had on [...]

By: Spoonfeeder

Spoonfeeder — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 02:27:24 +0000

They do shwarma in laffa the right way. Fresh bread, israeli pickels, and just enough french fries. You can do better but it may take you 12 hour flight.

By: HookedonSamosas

HookedonSamosas — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:52:43 +0000

I just had one today, man was that filling, no pun intended.

By: HookedonSamosas

HookedonSamosas — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:19:14 +0000

next time if you all have a problem maybe you can go to the waitstaff and stick one of those massive laffa sandwiches where the sun don’t shine, lmao…

By: cheap&greedy

cheap&greedy — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:19:37 +0000

I went to OP in my God given blackface and while the folks weren’t southern hospitality syrupy their service was o-kay by NYC standards. For $7.04 a I ate a montrosity (sp?) of a sandwich–laffa bread with falafal, hummus, fries, israeli salad, and small to go containers of tahini and hot sauce. I also got a container of sides (red cabbage w/ vinigrette, hot peppers and green salad) that I could not eat today but will happily make part of my lunch tomorrow. My verdict…good falafel made great b/c of the extras. FYI Jr., I went on a Tuesday and they did have lamb schwarma.

By: Jr

Jr — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:27:23 +0000

To the positives: emphasize the size. Ridiculous. To the list of negatives I would add: Size makes it a tad too big to enjoy standing up. And my biggest problem is that the schwarma is only chicken or turkey. I’m looking for real deal lamb schwarma thanks very much. Anyone know a place with lamb schwarma?

By: wayne

wayne — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:53:58 +0000

I tried this place today, phoned in an order to go – Lamb shish kebab lafa. Yeah it’s $12 but it’s quality, and enough food to choke a llama, and great. Especially like how they give you the bonus salad container to fill and stuff in your bag. One other note: Mayhem rules after high noon. Be ready to fight for your lafa, it’s an unruly mob scene up front. That said, this non-swarthy, deodorant-using Gentile cracker found the staff to be friendly and accommodating. Next time I will go in blackface and see if there’s a difference.