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| - While out in Arizona for a wedding, my friend and I wandered around downtown Phoenix for something to eat and something to do. Little did we know that this would be a pretty difficult task. Who knew that there was so little going on in a downtown area! Wow - I was blown away at how quiet and boring this place was. I digress. After finally having found a small shopping plaza by following a small group of people walking towards something, we decided that this area was going to be our best bet as far as finding something to eat that wasn't fast food.
Well having walked around the small shopping plaza, we stumbled across this place. More drawn in by the name than anything else, and having recently seen an episode of Bourdain eating shwarma, Greek sounded pretty good to me.
As we walked in, the initial person to greet us seemed occupied with something else and decided that he would just go about doing whatever it was he was doing and leave the seating to someone else. Well, we stood there for a while and after about a minute or two, another employee came and seated us. Having taken a long time driving around for something to eat, my friend and I took a quick survey of the menu and quickly decided on our appetizer (feta fries) and our entrees (I had the Gyro plate, my girl had the steak kabobs).
While I was not very impressed with much at this place, I will give this place credit for the feta fries. They were hands down the best part of the meal and possibly the best feta fries I've ever had. The cheese was delicious and there was a light rosemary based sauce drizzled on top which was just a perfect compliment to the fries and cheese. Unfortunately, this is where the good part of the meal ended. Having waited a good half hour after we had already finished our fries, my gyro plate was nothing to write home about - it was your usual fair with somewhat over cooked rice, sauteed vegetables, and way too little pita and tzatziki sauce for the amount of meat. My friend's steak kabobs were all but inedible - cold and seasoned with entirely way too much salt, the meat was salty to the point that it was borderline bitter. Poor girl just ate the rice and veggies and left the kabobs all but untouched.
Well, overall, this place did not impressed. Not only was the food not very good, the service was also pretty terrible. From the half hour wait for food to the server not even taking notice to the untouched steak, I can't say that I liked this place much. The only reason I would come back would be for the feta fries...mmm...so good.
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