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Visited NYC last week and took my mom with me to Rainbow. She had falafel, I had a falafel platter with califlower instead of humus. Still tasted as good as it did when I lived there over ten years ago. Ripe tomatoes, falafel tastes of coriander, fresh chopped onion. All good--I'm no expert--and I've never been to the Mid-East or Israel, but their falafel tastes good to me.

I used to love this place, but now it's gone way downhill. The shwarma was too dry to eat, had to throw it away. Nothing good about the sandwich, brown lettuce, rotten tomatoes, yuck. The fried cauliflower was ok, but too greasy and soggy.

The falafel sandwich at $3.50 was really hard to beat. This used to be my favorite little cheap place to get a great lunch. Now it's $4.75, and still delicious, but somehow the price increase leaves a bitter taste in my mouth.

Buried amidst the insanity of Union Sq, this place is literally a hole in the wall. And it tastes as such. It's great, if what you want is (relatively) cheap, typical "Middle Eastern" food that will probably satisfy whatever craving you had.

Gave this place a try twice in the last few weeks... the schwarma is just flat out overcook and completely dry. All of the flavors are there, but the chicken is borderline inedible. The falafel was ok, but a little cold. Having had schwarma and falafel from Israel, this place falls way short.

only falafel is good but shawarma is not at all good.

Yes, I want to Rainbow Falafel for my birthday dinner this year (and for *many* other meals) Yes, I *love* Rainbow Falafel. It's awesome and the people there are like family to me since I've been going for ~10 years. Yes, I did go there for my birthday dinner this year, out of all the great restaurants in NYC which I've known my whole life. Get the Vegetarian Platter - it's a perfect combination of falafel, hummus, baba ganoush, salad, tahini, lemons, peppers, ... great food!