You Can Make Every Night a Pita Party With Yellow’s Pita Packets | Eater DC
"This Levantine cafe in Georgetown (also with a Union Market location) sells its hefty, wood-fired, za’atar-dusted pitas as a six-pack for $15 (one online menu also lists a 12-pack for $28, though I haven’t seen that offering in the shop). That certainly puts them in a higher-priced category than your typical supermarket offering, but to me, the price difference is worth it: with the mere addition of one of these pitas, I find that home-cooked meals like yogurt-marinated chicken thighs, Zahav’s chicken schnitzel, and gyro riffs automatically turn into something special. They’re also great for dipping in baba ganoush, hummus, or zhug, whether your purchasing allegiances lie with local offerings like Little Sesame or Cava, or even with Trader Joe’s. Bonus — the pitas (also on the menu at the Union Market location) seem to freeze perfectly well, so you don’t need to down six of them in a couple of days in order to make your purchase worth it (that said, no judgment if you do). A warning caveat — if you expect to be visiting the cafe during peak hours, it might be worth a phone call ahead of time. I stood in a 20-minute line out the door on a bustling day around lunchtime in the hopes of snagging some pitas to bring to a group house gathering over the weekend. I got to the register and was out of luck — they weren’t selling the packets that day, and in fact had instituted a three-pita limit per customer. A cafe representative confirmed to me that they sometimes limit sales on busy days in Georgetown, particularly if pizzas are occupying the oven, though so far haven’t had to in Union Market. This was admittedly my first time being confronted with a pita limit in my daily life, but I guess a place has to be doing something right to necessitate one. I of course still bought my three. Update (1/10/25): This story has been updated to include information from a cafe representative." - Missy Frederick
