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| - I will start off saying that my husband and I have made it a business to try as many gyro places as we can to find one that revels closest to The Greek Pita (N Phoenix). I looked on yelp when I started my new job to see what I could find. This place showed up and the reviews were off the chart. Today, I decided it was time (there is another place in the Fry's parking lot that I tried previously and would give 3-4 stars to)....I now wonder two things. 1. if everyone that is going here is stoned and just has the munchies or 2. If I somewhere along the way have been so spoiled by my place that every other gyro place will never make it out alive.
Let's start with the basics. The place itself is in a great strip area on Baseline. It's got a fabulous patio setup and you walk inside to a huge (unexpected) clean restaurant. It was more than half empty on a Friday during lunch hour though...maybe that should have been a clue to bail...but I stayed since I had already ordered my food via phone in.
Food. The quantity of the food content is great. My to-go container was FULL. I looked at it for a moment and then I started to LOOK at it. The first thing I noticed was it looked like they forgot my tzansiki (sp?) sauce. I was like okay, well that sucks, but went to eat anyways. The sauce was there, but it was more of a water down yogurt dressing with little seasoning to it. No cucumber, dill, lemon taste at all (and had it been better, this could have easily changed my stars). Because the sauce was put directly on the pita, I couldn't pick it up at all so I had to use a knife and fork. I thought that was weird. The meat was ok. I'll be honest, I can usually taste the marry of the beef and lamb, but I'm not even sure I got both and I definitely didn't get a lot of meat on it. It tasted like overcooked, under seasoned beef. It had a weird red coloring on it also, but there was no flavor with it. The abundaince of my gyro was a lot of shredded lettuce and tomato (it's a gyro, not a taco). The fries were basic, fries with no salt and kind of soggy (probably from my soggy pita bread).
So there you have it. I would say I'm going to try it again, but like I said, there is another place almost directly across the street with better sauce and meat...a little more price (like $1) but that would be work it. A short tip, as about another cup or two to your sauce with some lemon, dill and CUCUMBERS for your sauce, learn to salt and pepper a bit and parchment paper to separate fries from gyro (if you can't sauce on top) and I might be back.
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