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| - grape leaves were the tiniest we've ever eaten! About the size of a cocktail frank, and about as remarkable. The lemon piece served with them was dried out. The hummus, though tasty, was VERY thick! Almost like cutting into a soft cheese - not spreadable. We asked for some oil to add to it and felt that that was really a just so-so solution. I doubt seriously that it was freshly made - thinking it had been sitting around for a while.
Our pastitsio was ok - not very hot when served though, my guess is that it was microwaved. Our pasta (ziti) was the worst we've had in a restaurant ever - in that it was SO overdone. Normally, if a dish isn't perfect , we will not ask for a replacement, but this was luke warm and SO mushy and starchy and tasteless. The server explained something that I really didn't want to know - that the pasta is precooked at the beginning of the day and then reheated ! - not cooked to order. Our server was accomodating, but the whole experience was much less than wonderful. While we expect ethnic music in an ethnic restaurant, theirs was so loud that after a couple times around the play list we were really quite ready to leave and had our 2nd plate of ziti (only slightly less mushy) packaged to go. a big disappointment - glad we had a groupon. BUT - it turns out that our server's insistance that the groupon required us to order two entrees (rather than the mix of soup/salad and one entree we'd planned to order) was NOT true. We didn't have the groupon with us - only on my phone and I didn't look closely at it until I got home and looked at it more closely on my lap top. SO that less than hot, overdone ziti was the dish that we actually didn't plan to order - but we had to, and that pushed our lunch order over the $30 limit of the groupon -- just an overall bad lunch experience - after a previous lunch there which was much better.
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