The Pita Pit
Categories: Middle Eastern, Greek and Mediterranean [Edit]
1513 BroadwaySeattle, WA 98122 (206) 302-7070
- Price Range: $
- Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
- Parking: Street
- Attire: Casual
- Good for Groups: No
- Good for Kids: Yes
- Takes Reservations: No
- Delivers: Yes
- Take-out: Yes
- Waiter Service: No
- Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
- Outdoor Seating: Yes
- Good for: Late Night
- Alcohol: None
29 Reviews for The Pita Pit
I love my pita pit especially after drunken nights on the hill. It's a fast food type of place, the ppl that work there are nice, and I love stopping by after class every now and then for the sake of eating somewhat healthy. Pita pit sure beats eating a hot dog, or a slice of pizza when you're in a rush or when you have a case of the drunk munchies.
I love that i get to pick and chose what goes in it and it's fast, because sometimes you are just tooo hungry to be waiting any longer than a few minutes.
I've taken a liking to Pita Pit. Before yesterday I had always been brought pitas from my boyfriend, friends or delivery. So I was really looking forward to checking out this magical place where pitas were born... and I was slightly disappointed.
The employees were friendly and the exchange of money and ordering went just fine. But when I stepped up to the counter to give the pita master my vegetable order she stopped to pick up her cell phone... with her gloves on! Said she couldn't talk, pressed a couple buttons and went right back to the vegetables. What's the point of wearing gloves at all? Then I noticed she handled all the different types of meat and then went straight back into the vegetables... contaminating each of the vegetable bins with a smile.
While I'm not a vegetarian and didn't care about this mixing of ingredients I'm sure there are those who would.
I still really like the caesar salad and philly cheese steak pitas so you get three stars!
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Tummy: "I'm hungry."
Me: "Shut up. I'm working."
[Time passes.]
Tummy: "I'm hungry."
Me: "FINE. You want a microwaved personal pizza? Cuz that's all we have here."
Tummy: "Don't toy with me, woman. I'M HUNGRY."
[More time passes. Friend calls to ask about possible lunching-outside-of-building.]
Tummy: "I'm hungry."
Me: "YES I KNOW. WE'RE GOING."
[We arrive at Pita Pit. I order and eat a hummus pita with spinach, tomato, and avacado.]
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Tummy: "I'm hungry."
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They deliver. One star.
It's cheap ($7). One star.
It's open late. One star.
Otherwise, unimpressive. No more stars.
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Pretty basic sandwich in a pita, made quickly and reasonably priced.
I haven't had any issues some of the other reviewers evidently had, so I keep going back. I love the summertime people watching out the big window, mowing down on a tasty sandwich.
Voila!
SICKENING CLEANLINESS!!! The bathroom was out of toilet paper, paper towels AND soap, and when I went to tell the people at the counter, they said they were ALSO out and that they couldn't refill any of those b/c they don't have access. So what were THEY washing their hands with?! Gross....I couldn't eat the falafel I ordered for fear of getting sick. I'm sure their food is decent, but if even once someone went to the bathroom and then made someone's food right after, that's beyond horrid to me!
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Great place when you need something different then your normal burger or take out. Wish I still lived close enough to have it delivered but I am not lucky enough. Thats when you will find this food best. Hungry and do not want to eat pizza and are to drunk to leave the house.
My last walk in visit was a bit disturbing.. My chicken hit my Pita and then the cook goes "oh man its still cold" and scooped it out. Put it back on the grill for a while and then back in the sandwich. I just let it ride but come on now... REALLY? I am ok and did not get sick but the whole "warm" meat hitting the sandwhich then it sitting and sitting...
I'll be back someday but the last time was a bit strange. GREAT counter person though. Friendly and cheerful.
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Open until 3am on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights. I Liiii-ke.
Oh, and no grimey, grubby bathroom keys. Thanks for trusting your customers 'Pit, no matter how meth'd out some of them may be.
Question for you:
'How in the eff do you shove all that crazy tasty mess of a samach deep betwixt the wheaty loins of a pocket o' pita without bustin' the sides out somethin' messy fierce??!' HOW!?
Must be a gift. That's all I can come up with.
Best cheap late night food in Seattle.. Besides, you gotta love the, 'No gut bomb 'what in the hell was I thinking last night when I ate that at 2:30am??!' remorse' you have after Dante's or Linda's the next morning..
Go here.
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Ah Pita Pit. A 2 AM heaven for an intoxicated vegetarian. Hummus, sprouts, feta, whole wheat pitas. At the Capitol Hill location you can find friendly employees and clean floors. And usually a line of drunkards, just like everywhere else on the Hill.
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Ok...we had a Pita Pit in Boulder when I was an undergrad and I avoided it like the plague. I am Middle Eastern and I snubbed my nose at anything feigning my people's food in a white man's dry pita.
Well I am older and much more humble these days and when my friends here in Seattle talked up this PP I decided to give it a go.
Pretty darn good for cheap eats on the Hill.
I recommend the gyros, chicken caesar, or the philly with grilled mushrooms, onions and peppers, loaded with lettuce, tomato, sprouts, olives, taziki, with feta and their "special" sauce. Make sure its nice and loaded and you might just have two meals in one!
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Good for a quick bite late at night; it will not leave you feeling weighed down.
Really fresh and tasty. Nothing for me to write home about, but fills the whole with delicious pita goodness.
Minus one star because the cashier came outside (we were eating outside) and started smoking right next to us. She was within 25 feet of the entrance and it made me want to gag.
Perhaps next time I'll just eat inside to avoid the smoke smell.
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I've always stayed away from Pita Pit for a few reasons. The obvious being the standard rule of not eating anywhere with the words "pit, hole, mold and/or angry verbs" in the name, the not so obvious is because I can't eat garlic. Yes, it's sad.
Mediterranean food is just no good for me so imagine my surprise when I'm told that these are really just pita sandwiches! Sure, you can get garlicky gyro meat and slather on the tzatziki if you would like...ooooor...you can get chicken and spinach and plain old mayo! W00t!
At $7 for a huge sandwich all wrapped up and ready to go I'm a fan.
A word to the wise: If anyone (Charlie!) tells you that it's a good idea to eat your pita on the jungle gym at Cal Anderson Park *don't listen to them* and for the love of not barfing on a children's play area do NOT launch yourself rocket style on the swing set!
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so lets say you've just worked a 14 hour day and you hadn't eaten any food for over 8 hours and you just slammed two very strong vodka ginger ales...
it's late, you're hungry, you've got a good buzz and you're cheap
go here, they're open late, close to bars, huge portions and you won't mind that it makes a mess all over you...your food that is, not the guy you just picked up
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I just started going to this place out of necessity for my stomach during lunch hours while at Seattle Central. I was a little skeptical at first because of the price ($6 for a pita sandwhich?!), but when I saw them stuffing all the wonderful goodness inside and realized how HUGE the pita sandwiches are, I was quite satisfied. So far, I've gone there for lunch three times this week and had the gyro (not so good - has a fake bacon-y taste to it), falafel (YUM!), and the local (very yum, especially with ranch).
My only complaint? The music. I dig different music, which the guy who works in mornings seems to like, but he BLASTS it. If I want loud music, I'll go to a club, not the Pita Pit. Thanks. So, for that reason, I usually put on my iPod and eat inside, or just walk off and eat somewhere else.
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Yeah, it's a chain, but it's a chain in the exact right location when you are most in need of some tasty grub.
It is located in front of you at 2 am on a Saturday night.
Try it: go anywhere in the city, get drunk, wait a few hours, look at your watch, and marvel how you are standing in front of it at 2 am. They've perfected space-time travel, I tell ya.
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I miss working one block away from here, because this was the best lunch ever!!! HUGE, healthy, and tasty!! I loved the club, gyro, and the local. YUMMY!!!!
Excellent hummus. The service was average. It was delicious but nothing extraordinary. I would definitely go back for a quick meal.
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blah.. i've eaten at the pita pit 3 times now and each time has been a big let down, even though all my friends think its great and it seems the yelpers have kind words to say about them..
my first gripe; the meat they use sucks!
second, the veggies and condiments are very similar to subway.
third, I found a hair in my food and all they could say is "sorry" and wouldn't make me a new one! Needless to say, there went $7 in the trash! (literally)
I would of given it a one star, but I respect the fact that they offer an alternative to Jack in the Box after the bars close.
Other than that, I will never step a foot in that door..
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I ate Pita Pit all through college in Montreal... it's a great fast food option where you can feel like you have several healthy choices. I was excited to see it in Seattle in Capitol Hill, so close to us... it's been a great option for when we need something quick lately. It's not a place I crave coming back to time after time... but it's a good option when the situation necessitates it.
I love "the Local pita" suggestion on the menu as well as just making my own combinations. What I don't love is the service at this location... I really haven't had a friendly server yet. It's mostly been crabby teenagers / college students who just have that air about them that they go around rolling their eyes at everything. I enjoy the food when I'm in the mood for it but this Pita Pit location gets dinged two stars for service because I just don't need that moody adolescent attitude when I'm out for a quick bite.
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True, the service isn't spectacular. But I wouldn't have a cheesy smile plastered on my face if I had to make pitas all day long and serve drunkards until the wee hours.
Needless to say, the pitas are pretty tasty and are a good healthy option. And the hours are awesome. Plus, the smoothies alone are worth 5 stars. The fruit is frozen and they only have 3 choices, but boy are they yummy. Oh yah, and they deliver!!!
All in all good stuff, but minus one star for the service and the cream cheese-like tzatziki. You might want to steer clear of that.
While the quality of the food is much better than many fast food places, The Pita Pit still suffers from "how much lettuce can we shove in here for filler" syndrome. Yet the young staff of slightly bored teenagers is quick to hook you up with a better made sammich if you joke with them a bit and show some empathy.
Their gyro is a confusing faux-Greek meal. It is comprised of thin meat, a generous handful of the senseless aforementioned lettuce, and tzatziki slathered on the pita like Crisco from my chubby grandmother's spatula as she slowly bakes my grandfather into a diabetic coma.
To top everything off, the actual pitas at "The PITA pit" are boring and gritty. Fortunately, that tip about the staff paid off the second time as they converted my sandwich into a salad on a bed of spinach. Same price, better food.
So why, after such glowing words, a three star review? Here is what each star represents:
Star 1 - You have to give at least one star in each review
Star 2 - As mentioned earlier, the ingredients are of decent quality. Especially for a fast food franchise.
Star 3 - They're open until 3 am on weekends...a better drunken food option than Jack in the Box to be sure.
Really, it's two stars sober and three stars with your swurve on. Given the circumstance of my visits, I'll dole out the three.
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You know, I suppose that whenever you make the decision to eat a meal at a restaurant characterized by an anthropomorphized pita sandwich, you sort of know what you are getting yourself into. Nevertheless, whenever I manage to talk myself into eating at the Pita Pit, I end up leaving more or less underwhelmed.
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"Stranger" - esque vibe, probably due to all the Strangers laying around. That and the "punk" music blaring from the speakers via my 'pita makers' ipod. Fresh ingredients? They look fresh. The meat...I can almost guarantee you it's not fresh, and I can almost guarantee you the veggies aren't organic, but they do look green and red and purple etc ie they have a fairly good range of tomatoes, olives, onions, lettuce, etc to aid in your pita 'explorations'. Hey, what do you expect? It's the pita pit...its healthier, tastes better and makes you feel better than most other options at $6 a pop. So, for what your getting, this aint' bad!
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a few things
1- the music is way too load. its almost like the staff doesn't want to hear your order
2- the prices are reasonable
3- the food is good
ultimately its a good place for when you need cheap food on the quick..nothing special, but reliable at least.
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The Pita Pit doesn't serve great mediterranean food by any stretch of the imagination, but it holds a special place in my heart.... er, stomach. You gotta cut this place a little slack, it's being pretty honest with the word Pit right there in its name. You just have to love a place that's open late on Cap Hill, it's perfect to hit up after going out to a club or show when you're hungry and don't want to throw some Jack in your Box or sloppy Dick's down your gullet (reference to the burger joints down the street... or to it's location next to Neighbor's, your choice).
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Is there any meat in their wraps/pita? Oh yes, at the end...not that bad though. They seriously stuffed that poor piece of bread with salad and a rainbow of veggies and they wrapped it in an unusual way, like an envelope. I enjoyed it by the way. The place is also clean and gives you the impression that you had an healthy meal. It's always fast food, no?
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I was debating whether to give this place 3 or 4 stars. I gave it 4 because its open really late (3am) and they serve healthy food. Although like other reviews (see U dist location), I agree the food isn't that great and I leave feeling full, but not happy (don't ask me to explain). The trick here is to stuff your pita with as much veggies as possible to get your money worth. Your choice of meat or hummus or falafal, etc really doesn't matter as they only give you a little bit (I think its about 3oz).
Its refreshing to have a take out vegetarian place on the hill!
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Food: Not that bad, I guess. Think a Subway or Quiznos, but they put the cold cuts on a grill, then put everything into a pita with whatever you want and you eat it. It's more like a wrap than a sandwich. Nothing to write home about, pretty standard, if not decent food.
But it gets 2 stars for having the most incompetant, mercury drinking, glue sniffing yokels working there. I had a guy working the grill not start on my order for 10 minutes because his loser friends came in and started chatting him up. I had to break up their conversation to say "umm, excuse me? How's about the food I ordered?" Oh, sorry he says while he makes my food and continues to talk to his friends.
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with no minimum order, pita pit has the best food delivery option for the solo luncheon or late- night munchies,.
falafel was $7.50 with delivery charge, i tipped the rest on a ten because they had it on my doorstep in about 15 minutes!(?!)
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