If you live anywhere near the Hasidic and Russian Fairfax district, or have spent any time down there, you may have encountered the Eat-a-Pita shack. Driving by it, you wouldn’t think much of the place. It’s a super yellow and orange single story building with benches and a parking lot. Nothing special, nothing out of the ordinary.

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But being a local and growing up in this neighborhood, the Eat-a-Pita spot was almost a landmark. The dirt that now lays in its spot resembles someone tearing a piece of my childhood memories. I know, it’s only f’n food. As a kid, sitting in the back of your parents car driving up and down Fairfax Ave. and seeing this same spot near Canter’s Deli, you can’t help but have a special spot for this place in your heart.

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We don’t have any pics of their food, we got there too late. It was all just quick-sinking mud that stained my Vans, similar to walking through shit to see a dead loved one. Now that it’s over, I’m glad to order some RoRo’s Chicken and feed my Arabic food needs. What a great world, a Jew eating Arabic food without getting stones thrown his direction.

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This “Hustle Harder” graffiti set is what remains here. The art is actually very well done and features your favorite beverage-endorsing character, the Kool-Aid Man. Of course it may actually be his evil brother selling that nasty grape-flavored alternative. Check out the full photo gallery below, as well as a preview to my trip to the Illadelph glass shop on Melrose Ave..

Google Map (Street-View): Click here to view what the ‘Eat-a-Pita’ shack looked like before the bulldozing.

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Yours truly,
J.S.