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| - PJ is like a music artist who had a hit single or two, then tried to drag it out as long as possible, but subsequent product just wasn't much ...
The gyro is great, the hot pita (especially philly steak), is great. But everything else? Just bizarre combinations of anything except substance - i.e. lacking meat, flour, and whatever else makes life good.
Because I like most people have to admit gyros and pitas are great, I gave it one more chance. But there were a number of problems:
- Old, old building with a cruddy interior makes you feel like why am I paying olive garden pricing (or more) but getting the quality of an old west-side circle k or something ???
- Hard, wooden chairs that were uncomfortable after about the first 5 minutes.
- Dark lighting, without a corresponding slick mood. Just dark and uncomfortable.
- I got a chipotle chicken pizza (the only thing I could find with real meat in it other than pitas and gyros, and this was DINNER time for me - but that's the problem with going to lunch places for dinner I guess) .... and it was ridiculously spicy. The only dip was cucumber yogurt dip.
I like the pita jungles that are in mall food courts, because they don't try to pretend to be something they're not. PJ's are a good place to get a $6-8 delicious lunch.
But they need to give up the idea of full service sit-down restaurants, because that concept just isn't fulfilled with old buildings and hard uncomfortable seats and a slim, lunch-y menu and a scarce wait staff that appears to be new to the industry.
This location is just begging for a new owner that is willing to bulldoze the place and re-build (or remodel), make it comfortable, surrender the idea of full service dinner, open the darn place from 11 to 4, and do a really good job at it.
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