Lazy Girl Friday - Pita Wrap Cafe

There aren't many places downtown where you can get a fine meal for $4.23 but the Pita Cafe is one of them. For $3.95 + tax you can get either a falafel wrap or a vegge wrap and fill your belly and then some until the time comes to call it a day.

At such a ridiculously cheap price you might think that it's just a pita filled with green peppers and iceberg lettuce and doused in mayonnaise-based tzatziki. Not even!

The falafel balls are perfectly spiced and never dry and they do not scrimp on the vegetable goodness. The vegge wrap is a slice of heaven. With some rice, equal parts of grilled eggplant, zucchini, roasted red and green peppers, tomatoes, lettuce (it's iceberg, but it always is regardless of where you go) and enough tzatziki and tahini to amalgamate all the flavours but not so much that it's drooling by the time you sit down and unwrap it, you'll be doing your body and wallet good.

For a buck more you can get the LA Wrap. It's just like the vegge but with potatoes and feta. I only had it once and was disappointed. It may have been because I got there way after lunchtime and they were only able to fill it to capacity with the dregs but I'm just going to stick to the vegge.

Today I bought a vegge wrap to save for an after-work/before-night class snack and being the impatient and starved chick that I am I didn't bother heating it up. I ate it cold and if anything the flavours blessed my taste buds like a kiss from Dionysius himself. And it wasn't even soggy. Divine!

They open at 07.00 and though I always eat breakfast at home and always leave for work ten minutes late I'm going to get my act together and pass by one of these days. They have something called My Egg Wrap and it's two eggs, bacon, potatoes and tomatoes. Sounds kind of gnarly but my kind of gnarly.

Anyways, back to lunch. There are other, more carnivorous, selections. They serve souvlaki and kababs (lamb, chicken or beef) and some meatball concoction that sounds delicious if that's your kind of thing. Then there are also salads, dolmathes, tzatziki and homous with pita, and dessert.

Thank you VanEats for blogging about this place as it's been my saviour many a lunch hour.

Buen provecho!

Pita Wrap Cafe 565 Dunsmuir Street. Phone: 604.681.7634