Lyla’s Family Restaurant

I ordered the pot roast and my wife ordered the meatloaf. The portion sizes were moderate but filling. The pot roast appeared to be shaved roast beef with gravy. My wife thought the meatloaf was mediocre. The staff was friendly and we were seated promptly. Our waitress was attentive but I just didn’t think the food was that memorable.

Friendly service, great food and large portions at good prices. Their soups are especially excellent. We enjoy this place!

Grecian stuffed potato pancakes are INCREDIBLE! And my wife thought the sweet & salty waffle was very good, also.

The food is quite good, they always give you your money’s worth, the staff is always friendly to you, some times they can get a bit over rush when they are short staff but they do their best to treat you like you are special

I can only comment on the breakfast because, so far, that’s all I’ve had. But, we went twice this past week! We had a different server each time and both of them were very friendly and attentive. Food came out both times very quickly. This will be our go-​to place now for breakfast. More food and half the price of Bob Evans (our usual place). $ 4.99 got me 3 eggs cooked perfectly medium, home fries, bacon (more than a couple of pieces), and toast. Servings were very large! Breakfast is available all day.

I really like this place. We haven’t had a bad meal there and have been there 4 times. The chicken fingers appetizers was large and tasty. The soups are good as well. I ordered the Corned Beef sandwich and it was piled high with corned beef and very good. My daughter had the cheeseburger and was good. My wife had something from the Mediterranean side and said it was very good. The place is clean and kind of plain, but the food is good. They take the Belly app also and you can get good coupons from them.

Absolutely worst experience. Went in for breakfast was kinda busy. Hostess /​server? Greets us looks like she just got out of bed without showering or anything. Gives response oh u guess I will get you started with drinks
We sit another 15 minutes at least I have to ask about server she replies oh no one’s came back? I guess I can take your order what do u want? Really??? Later the original server comes over to apologize once again we don’t see anyone again. Food comes out cold ordered side of gravy for 1.99 and was charged for biscuits and gravy not what I ordered
Meanwhile it’s slow and all servers are just standing around? No refills offered nothing??? Price value good but doesn’t really matter if it’s cold and service is awfuk

This place is great! Only complaint you get sooo much food — so that’s really not a complaint. Our waitress was so friendly. We are just visiting and we might be back tomorrow for breakfast. The menu is vast and there is something for everyone. The sweet and salty waffle was buried in crisp bacon, the stuffed potato pancake was amazing, and the eggs with gyro meat was also great. I didn’t eat everything but luckily I got to taste the things others ordered.
I just wish they had real maple syrup as a choice.
We will be back when we’re in town

Menu was way too large and varied too much, in my opinion. The hummus was really garlicky, too much for me. Falafel seemed frozen with dry herbs. The tahini seemed tart and caught me off guard. I will go back to try something else as I’d love to see this place stay around. I’ll be keeping my eye out for recommendations…

Took my mother to lunch today and it was fantastic. We each had a bowl of matzo ball soup and we split a Reuben sandwich. Always looking for a local place and not a chain Service was outstanding and the place was very clean.

Best falafel in town
Hummus & Baba ganoch were okay but can be better with less garlic
Tabouleh was old and definitely not freshly made as it should be
We also got lamp pita sandwich and meat shawarma pita sandwich which both were good but we asked to take back and warm/​toast the bread
Good place to eat if you are just looking for a neighborhood diner with middle eastern choices on the menu

Lyla’s is right down the street from our house — it’s located in the old French Coffee Shop space in Cuyahoga Falls. I loved the old downtrodden cozy Paris-​themed décor of the French Coffee Shop, but the new theme is brighter and somehow colder. As a fellow reviewer hinted at, it is more suited towards the older breakfast crowd.
Gone is the carpet, the natural light from the windows, rum/​sugar crepes, and liquor license. Usher in the tile floor, fluorescent lights, white polished ceiling tiles, and nothing stronger to drink than caffeine. We held no preconceived notions about Lyla’s when we had breakfast there last Sunday. We had read about Lyla’s online.
My husband and I — having found ourselves alone on a rare frigid Sunday morning — walked to Lyla’s for breakfast. We were greeted by friendly staff and were seated in a warm, roomy booth.
The menu was overwhelming! My husband and I ordered decaf coffees and waters with lemon. Our server, Renee was friendly and attentive. Ray had a meat-lover’s scrambled egg skillet with sausage gravy over the top (seriously?) and I had scrambled eggs with corned beef hash, a side of ham (not a literal side of ham), and hash browns (sliced fried potatoes). Our breakfast was delicious and we took much of it home with us.
My biggest concern is the ambitious menu. This menu is huge (4 pages)! I’m afraid that a restaurant of this size cannot supply the fresh ingredients that are listed daily based on the location/​clientele. There were senior citizens sitting next to us complaining about the fact that they hadn’t received glasses of (free) water on a Sunday morning! This type of diner sadly doesn’t help to pay the bills.
We enjoyed our breakfast at Lyla’s and plan to eat dinner there soon!

We came for lunch; started off with foole as an appetizer, and it tasted… weird? I’ve eaten a lot of foole. It tasted off. And lava hot, which was a recurring theme in all the food. Microwaved.
Dining companion’s sausage and even pancakes tasted old and reheated, and my potato pancake was pretty inedible. I grew up on garbage diner food so I had low expectations and I was still unhappy. Servers were both very nice and checked up often, but I wasn’t gonna be like, «Yeah, can you change the entire nature of how the business prepares food? Thanks boo.»
I still feel bloated.

My husband and I went for dinner again tonight. He had he same Mediterranean combo as last time and said it was cooked even better. I had the roast beef dinner with mashed potatoes and gravy. The beef to our surprise was thin slices, like what would be used for sandwiches, but after adding some salt and pepper it was pretty good. The serving was quite large. The potatoes and gravy were not note worthy, but weren’t bad either. Overall a better dinner than our last time.

So far food has been good and prices aren’t too bad. Staff has been great also. Many items on the menu to choose from.

A nice menu with plenty of vegetarian selections. The falafel sandwich was great! My companion got the veggie stuffed potato pancake, which was awesome!

A nice addition to the area. A family owned place with an incredible choice of options on their menu.
I have tried their breakfast and it was perfect, tonight I tried their stir fry and they aced it !!! Friendly staff, if the 4 page menu overwhelms you ask your server I heard them offer suggestions to many of the patrons there were there when I was.
Worth looking into if you want a good meal at a reasonable price and do not care to spend your money at a chain.

The food was excellent; everything else was only mediocre.
There seems to have been a lot of excitement over the opening of Lyla’s Family Restaurant in Cuyahoga Falls so I figured I should give it a try. Everything about it looks and feels like your average neighborhood diner so I wasn’t expecting too much. The differentiating factor about Lyla’s is that they identify as a Mediterranean restaurant.
When I walked in the doors I immediately felt like I was in a diner akin to your typical Denny’s or Bob Evans (complete with the bendable straws and jelly packets on every table), but with less character. The décor was very uninspired. It felt a little gloomy and there was no cohesion between the random artwork atop the pastel color scheme on the walls that clashed with the old and bold colored booths and tables.
The service was exactly what one would expect from from a stereotypical diner; depressing. While watching the servers help the various patrons I saw some smiles and helpfulness but I did not notice any excitement from the servers about anything. When I asked my server if there was anything she would recommend, rather than bragging about a couple dishes or telling me about her favorite meal she pointed to the Mediterranean page on the menu and simply told me that a lot of people order from that page.
Now before I arrived I had planned on trying their Mediterranean food so I went ahead and ordered the Mediterranean Appetizer Combo and the Combination Platter so I could get a good feel for their various items. I felt a little like a glutton after she questioned if I really wanted «Both?» so I told her I planned on taking half of it home for later.
Both the appetizer and the entrée came out at the same time and it was definitely a lot of food. Their hummus and their baba ganoush were probably the best I have had in this area. They had a lot more flavor and spices in them than at Aladdin’s. The pitas were a little hard and the falafel was a little over-​fried but overall I enjoyed the Appetizer Combo.
The Combination Platter was very good as well. The vegetables and all of the meat options were seasoned and cooked perfectly. They did not overcook their lamb like most places so that was a nice bonus. Their rice pilaf was fantastic as well. I do not think their kafta was as good as the other options but it was not bad at all.
I am a little bit torn on my rating. If they had not been so proud of their renovations and updated décor on their Facebook posts, I would not have been so harsh about that aspect. I think I will definitely get food again from here but I will most certainly order it to-​go and not eat inside. I give the food 4 stars and the overall combination of the food and experience 3 stars.