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| - Vasili'sTake Five recently opened up on Willy street right across from where I work. I wanted to like this place because I love Greek Food, but the experience was really very average.
The service I received from my waitress was friendly and prompt. She got us menus and water right away.
The decor is modern and clean. I really liked the granite tables.
My dining companion and I ordered a sampler platter of appetizers. While the cheese pie came out piping hot, I suspect it was premade/frozen and heated to order. There was really nothing special about it. Spanikopita or spinach pies were the same story. The stuffed grape leaves were most certainly from a can. They were really quite terrible. I love stuffed grape leaves. These were awful. Seriously, I went to a restaurant so you could open a can and dump crap on a plate?
Egg plant hummus was an interesting take on hummus, but they are definitely using canned garbanzo beans, and it didn't really wow me. It was unusual and different, but not awesome tasting. I'd rather have an amazing plain hummus than a wild/crazy hummus that is just OK.
Staff loudly yelling and chatting behind the bar in the other room detracted from the ambiance. The music selection also seemed a little odd, and was way too loud for a dining room that was largely empty.
I ordered my salad "light on the dressing". Instead, they put the dressing on the side. This is a major pet peeve of mine in restaurants. I hate tossing the salad on the plate because it's difficult to do and makes a mess. If I wanted dressing on the side, I would have asked for dressing on the side. It also cost extra to have chicken on top and then they gave me a miniscule portion of chicken. It was probably 3 ounces of chicken. The salad itself wasn't very generously proportioned and so I actually left hungry after dropping almost $20 on dinner.
A few weeks prior to this visit, I had a chicken pita to go, was good, but overpriced. The moussaka that my friend had, which I tried a bite of, was very good tasting.
Overall, save your money and go somewhere else because this restaurant just isn't firing on all cylinders. There are too many great restaurants in the Willy street neighborhood to waste your money here.
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