Layla Pizza and Falafel

The restaurant is across from St. Peter’s Hospital. It has pizza as well as middle eastern and Indian foods. It seemed like mostly a take-​out place, but there’s a seating area and a small buffet table.
Pizza. $ 2 cheese slices. Good texture. Bland taste. Perfectly good (and better than most upstate NY pizza) with some garlic powder and oregano on top. I’d go back for it, especially for the $ 7.99 large pie pick-​up deal.
Falafel. Dry and mealy. Overly bitter with what I assume is tahini on it. Really not that great for a place with FALAFEL advertised that large outside. Not a fan at all. Phoenicians in Colonie has the best falafel I’ve found in the area since Mr. Falafel in Albany closed in the early 2000s.
Gyro. Very good. Better than others I’ve had in the area. I’d get another one.
Vegetable Samosa. Good texture. Bland taste. (Sound familiar?) It was served with hot sauce. Not Indian hot sauce nor the usual mint chutney and tamarind sauce. It was Frank’s style hot sauce, which didn’t work with them at all. They likely would have been totally fine with the traditional sauces.
There was some difficulty understanding me on the phone. I had to repeat things a few times before I was understood properly.
Without the somewhat good pizza, this would be a 2-​star place.

unquestionably the worst take out EVER! so bland honestly think it takes work to be that unappetizing. pizza, poppers, and falafel one worse than the next. really just straight bad. do yourself a favor and put on some ramen.

I really want to like this place, because I think pizza and falafel make a great combination. And they do. Just not when they’re both cold, and the pizza is mediocre.
I’ve ordered twice from here. Once I ordered a falafel sandwich for pickup that somehow, inexplicably, was missing the falafel. I didn’t unwrap and eat it until I got to work, and wrote it off as perhaps a miscommunication over the phone.
I tried again, ordering over Campusfood. Maybe bias against online ordering is why my food arrived cold enough that I had to reheat it in order to be edible. The pizza wasn’t bad. I’ll go back for a takeout sandwich, but won’t bother with the pizza again.

I’ve been looking for good falafel in Albany for about 6 months now, with no such luck… I happened upon the review below for this place and thought I’d check it out. Not impressed… the pita bread crumbled very easily which made eating the sandwich difficult, and the chick pea patties just weren’t hot enough/​the right consistency. I can’t speak for the pizza (which looked fine) or anything else, but look elsewhere if you’re searching for a great falafel sandwich.

I already got food twice at this place. The place is a little hole in the wall kind of joint, nestled next to Andy’s Bar. My first order was pizza delivered to my apartment. It got there in good time and consensus amongst my roommates was good pizza. There were leftover slices, but they were gone by afternoon the next day. Pretty sure that roommate didn’t like leftover pizza either.
Second order was with my boyfriend, we went in to take out a couple plain slices and I ordered a baba ganoush sandwich. The whole order was $ 8.10. My boyfriend, who was really hungry, whined the minute he saw a small pizza was $ 7.99. «We could have gotten a whole pizza!!» This promptly started the end of the world, so I never got to ask him if he liked his slices. The baba ganoush, however, was quite tasty. Garlicky enough to require a glass of water, but hey, I like garlic.