Pita Pan

I had the falafel, which was very hood. Well cooked and crunchy. I wasn’t fond of the tahine dressing, so next time I’ll order it without it. The sandwiches are cheap, the fries are cheap, but the drinks are a bit pricey. The staff is pretty decent for a fast food place too. Unfortunately it’s closed now :(

I’m writing this review with my Unilocal app in my right hand and my Greek Pita from Pita Pan in my left bc I am just loving it that much!
First timer and ordered a Greek Pita and Greek Salad to-​go… This pita is so good! With the grilled mushrooms, loukaniko, and their own special sauce… Honestly, I didn’t expect Pita Pan to be this good!

$ 2.50 for a falafel sandwich? What a deal!
Not.
It soon becomes obvious why there is a choice on the menu to get two instead of one: «sandwich» is false advertising. It’s more of a snack wrap. A pretty tasty snack wrap, but a snack wrap nonetheless.
I’m still not sure why it took a good 15 minutes to get one of those snack wraps in a practically empty place. Or why the one other person besides me received their order after mine, even though she was there first.
I have a feeling it’s because 99% of the staff is focused on studying for their S.A.T.s and figuring out what to wear to prom.

Your fries carried you into 2-​star territory Pita Pan.
What’s so good about the fries? Not much except seasoning… but hey, not many people do it around here, so its worth a star.
As for the other items…
the salad LOOKED good. but I’m sure this joint ain’t in the food presentation business. BLAND.
the pita sandwiches?
I had the chicken… SUPER BLAND. When you have to add salt, pepper AND ketchup when there’s sauce all over it already?
This is what happens when I cheat on Fontanas!
Do yourselves a favor and go to Northern and Franny Lou. instead… your tongue will thank you!

The culinary delight of Astoria has come to Bayside! This is a great place to have some lunch, snack or dine late night after a hard night of drinking. The food is always fresh and tasty and the service is always fast. The menu is extensive and the choices are plentiful. I eat here at least once per week. If you’re in Bayside, you must drop in and have a gyro.

Hi Folks,
Nearby place, we have a lot of good Greek restaurants in NE Queens, but they are uneven for healthy food, sometimes soups are too salty, etc.
At Pita Pan, I have ordered the wraps with 4-​ingredients (your choice) twice for about $ 6 and have found it excellent. The salmon size was good, the bread was grilled a smidgen, things like the mesuclun, avocado and grilled peppers were all fresh.
On the meat and falafel and such I have no idea, the wraps are surprisingly good.
No soup, dunno if any good salads, the wraps are a very good mini-​meal for one or two.

Well it wasn’t the worst thing I’ve ever eaten, but it clearly wasn’t the best.
I didn’t have any issues with wait time like everyone else here seems to have had, and the girl at the counter who took my order was friendly. The place was clean, lots of options, etc.
I ordered the chicken gyro with french fries. While the fries were very nicely seasoned, most of them were kind of soggy, which killed it for me. They need to figure out the proper cooking method.
The gyro was… ok. I mean it wasn’t gross and there was some flavor, but I dont know, I expected better. It was also pretty small, but that was expected considering the menu listing has pricing for one or two. Obviously they’re saying «hey guys, they’re kinda small so you might wanna double up».
Yet another place that grabbed my attention because of its name, but I probably won’t be coming here often.

THIS PLACE IS A JOKE!!! Me and my husband were hungry and drove to bell blvd, and noticed pita pan just opened, by the time we ordered and payed, we went to go find a seat and waited for our food… it took freakin 30 minute’s while other people who came in after us got their order before
husband got so upset, that we endend up asking for our money back and just left! I would never go there again. The service is terrible

Interesting gyro place. Very different from the others. Their gyros are smaller (kinda like a wrap), but they’re not expensive and are pretty good. There’s also plenty of seating here.

Small gyros but fries come inside which I like. Spicy feta dip is good enough to order again but other than that, not really worth it but if it was the last meal on earth I would not reject it.

Well… The décor and the location is nice. Unfortunately that is all I can say that was nice about this place.
The problem here is the service and food. The staff is friendly but just unable to cope with running a restaurant. I will accept that a brand new restaurant will have it opening pains but I seen this place open for a while and wondered at time why it hasn’t closed down yet.
There is some wrong with their priority system at the counter. It seems like if you choose to stay to eat, you will have to wait till all the takeout people get their food. I understand you want to get them out of the place, but please did I really need to wait 40 mins to get 1 gryo (which was two bites). Then 15 mins later for my second gryo, then 10 mins after that my french fries.
Second problem I had, it seems like they were making my food and sending it out as it was done, but why was it all cold. I can only guess it was sitting at the counter not under a heat lamp.
I really hope they clean up their act because it would a shame if they put another bank at that location after they close down.

I waited for this place to open. It looked snappy and fresh. Orange and green décor, kind of modern, almost an ode to an Asian fast food joint. On their opening weekend I attempted to get food there twice. Once at 3:00 pm one day and 6:00 pm the day after. They were out of food both days. Their hours stated that they were a late night joint so how could they run out of food at 3:00 pm?
Anyways… the following weekend I managed to get there when they had food to serve. The place was packed. I took it to mean that the food must be good. Boy, was I mistaken. I stood on line and put in my order for a falafel sandwich to go with a side of hummus. They asked me if I wanted fries on my sandwich. Ick no. They didn’t offer to put them on the side & I was so turned off by the thought of fries on my falafel pita that I didn’t think to ask for them on the side. I received my receipt and waited for a seat to open up while I waited. Eventually I got a seat and watched as they took more orders. I started to hear people coming up to the counter and complaining that they didn’t have their order yet. Silly me thought people were mistaking greek food for fast food because of the décor. I also thought I’d be getting some nice fresh falafels due to the time I was waiting.
After 15 minutes, I started getting annoyed. Falafel, even fresh simply doesn’t take that long to fry up. After 20 minutes I stood on the complaining line (yes, a complaining line had formed). 10 minutes later I finally asked at the counter what happened to my order. The guy who took my complained made a motion like he was going to run back & find out. Instead, 5 minutes later he came out with an order for a group seated at a table who came in 15 minutes after me. I finally had enough. I spotted an older looking man behind the counter and asked him to refund my order. I was waiting over a ½ hour and nothing. It was as if the word refund triggered the staff to action. A girl behind the counter asked me what my order was. When told she told me she called out my name a while ago. I said bullshnikey since I was waiting at a table right by the counter and the place isn’t that big to begin with. She passed me a bag with a container of hummus and a box. I was starving so I figured I’d cut my losses and just leave.
When I finally had the chance to open the box and look at my sammie, I was shocked at it’s petite size. No pita came with the hummus either. The falafel was cold and the tahini was warm. I bit in and was once again disappointed. I almost walked back up to Bell to complain but I thought about the complaint line and decided it wasn’t worth it.

Décor is great. It looks like a place where you want to chill and eat with your friends while people watching.
Now the food is a different story. Ordered a BBQ burger. It was pretty small for the 6 bucks I paid. I wouldnt have minded if the burger at least had a taste, but it tasted pretty blah to me. I take Burger King anytime compare to this burger and at least I get some fries and a soda for the $ 6. My husband ordered 2 pitas. Presentation was very nice and they actually put fries inside the pitas. I tried the chicken pitas and to me they had no taste either and were a little cold. We waited a while for our food too.
Will I go back? I think I will save my money and go somewhere else.

I had my eye on this place for a few months and was very excited to see that they finally opened. I ordered a beef gyro sandwich and a greek salad to go. Since I had called in the order first, it was ready by the time I arrived ~ So far so good.
If you are a gyro lover, you WILL BE DISAPPOINTED with Pita Pan. This is a fast food Gyro place and their gyro indeed taste like «fast food». Even though their prices seems attractive, the Gyro is TINY. I would say a ¹⁄₃ of the average size. If you are a serious gyro-​connoisseur, your best bet (in bayside) is Avli which is just a few blocks further north on Bell. There, you’ll get authentic delcious tasting gyro along with FANTASTIC lemon potatoes… and the price is good also.

well, I tried it. Another poor attempt at a trendy sandwich shop in Bayside. To get right to the point, the place HAD potential with its location & open air doors.
The fries are soggy, greasy, mush. The pita’s are tiny– for my $ 7+ I expected something a little larger, and honestly, I can get a better sandwich/​wrap anywhere else on Bell blvd.
This place is all show no blow. Well, maybe a little blow…

This place opened up recently, as the grand opening signs were still strewn about. We went to check it out as we a group of 4 were hungry and wondering about this new neon orange place. The place was crowded and we took that as a good sign. We should have taken it as a bad sign and turn and ran the other direction!
I understand that with an opening of a restaurant, things don’t go smoothy, but what happened was just atrocious! We ordered and they happily took our money. We sat down at a table waiting for our food. We chatted and looked around. The couple that came in after us and ordered after us, sat down next to us got their food first. In fact they got both their orders, ate and left before any of us got any of our food! about 30 minutes in, we were wondering what the hold up was.
It took them 30 minutes to pour orange dressing in to a plastic container along with feta cheese and eggplant and cut up some bread to give us. We snacked on that while another couple of guys sat down next to us looking at the menu. We waited, and waited, and waited. 40 minutes later, I can see the person working the register behind the counter looking at the 4 of us sitting there. He walks over to the «wait» staff standing there and basically asks her to find out why we’re still «squatting» and «holding» the table. Wow. Course she didn’t say it that way. She asked us if we needed anything else. Yeah OUR FOOD! Its been 45 minutes! What we ordered seriously wasn’t that complicated! it takes you 30 min to pour sauce into a plastic container and cut up bread?! now you want us to leave after you’ve already taken our money? at that point we were all annoyed. One of my friends got his dish, but not his cheese fries, the waitress said they were coming right out. It never came. 10 minutes later my order finally came, with fries and salad. It was almost an hour waiting for our food! absolutely ridiculous! And to top it off my friend’s cheese fries STILL didn’t come! We ate our food as we were starving, and you know what? It wasn’t worth the hour wait! But because we were starving we ate it. My friend still waiting for his cheese fries got up with his receipt and went to the entrance near the kitchen where the people where, and demanded to know where his cheese fries were! I got my order of fries, and yet he’s still waiting. He saw cheese fries sitting there waiting to be taken out, some other guy was going to take it to another table! Then the other guy realized this and gave it to my friend, and they just microwaved the cheese to make it melt. Honestly, did it really take you an hour to microwave cheese on fries?
Their system of sending out food is flawed, mostly by the staff of girls who are busy trying to look cute and pretty and not paying attention. They walk out with the food and call out your name, you can only hope that a guy brings your food out as they actually call our your name. I saw a girl walk out with food, pretend to call out a name, look around and bring it back to the counter and go they’re not there. WTF? are you seriously that lazy? In the hour i was trapped there I noticed a lot from the staff. Yeah they’re always cleaning, trying to clear tables so people can sit there and wait and wait, then shoo you away after they’ve taken your money!
The to go line was long and arduous, but they got their food. The rest of us waiting there got screwed. I understand in a restaurant, that the to go orders are a priority. But what about the rest of the orders? Seriously, keep up! You have all this staff leaning on the walls, chilling, and who’s in the kitchen? 2 people? seriously, get your act together! First impressions are lasting and this place would have gotten 0 stars if Unilocal would have let me!
I’m sure there are way better pita places out there, but if you’re in the area and in the mood for pita, take it to go, and save yourself the headache and frustration of having your time wasted!

this place is horrible
30 minutes for simple food to come out,
then it has no taste and very dry
waste of $$$