Falafel Express — Restaurant in Fresno

Simple small local restaurant, we wanted to try some Mediterranean Food for our Friday Family Dinner Night, entering the building we were welcomed with a good smell of food but was a bit warm and humid. We ordered a little of everything so that we can all try some food. We ordered Falafel of course, Beef Kabob, rice pilaf, chicken, french fries, humus with extra Pita bread, and sodas. The beef was tough and took a lot of chewing, chicken was good, rice pilaf was delicious, humus was average, pita bread tastes and felt like it was prepackaged and bought from the store, I also ordered a Gyro wrap that had no taste (didn't taste like Gryro). Also, the chairs were sticky and my shirt would stick to them when I would lean forward; I scraped off a chunk of something gooey from the film residue on the chairs. Overall we would rate this place average and could probably cook better at home, but good if you want to order for pick up for a quick bite. I don't think we will be back, because we thought with very few items on the menu that the food would be outstanding...

So on Sunday February 09, 2020, my mother in law, my husband and myself visited Falafel Express. Linda the cashier was REALLY RUDE and acted like she didn't want to be there. Time of receipt was stamped at 4:00 pm, my husband and my mother in law received their food minutes later (Chicken & Steak salad and chickenwrap) while I ordered a chicken bowl that took 16 minutes later after they received their food. Food was great but service REALLY SUCKS! Linda made us feel SO UNCOMFORTABLE, about 4:40pm she Hubbard over a table next to us and just STARRED at us while we ate & conversated! We looked up the hours and it stated they closed at 8pm. I asked her Do you want us to leave? She stated yes because we are closed. I told her the hours online shows closed at 8pm, she said no we closed at 4 and said that's why I gave you guys the food in to go boxes. Which Linda Never said they closed at 4 after we ordered. This place needs to evaluate the employees! Linda left the tables dirty and locked up immediately after we walked out....

The gyro sandwich was just ok... I couldn’t finish it though, I lost my appetite from how filthy the restaurant was. My expectations are pretty low for fast falafel restaurants. I’ve eaten at just about every type of restaurant, 3rd world street food to high end fine dining. I’m not that picky. But the floor look like it hadn’t been washed in weeks. Flies were buzzing around. The tables weren’t clean. Even the napkin they gave me wasn’t clean. I could look past a lot of this if the food was as amazing as everyone suggests but it was just ok.

I spilled my drink all over the floor trying to open the garbage lid, the lid was stuck together from what I presume is sticky soda residue that hadn’t been cleaned off. Nobody seems to care... so I didn’t...