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| - We ordered take out and when we arrived to pick up our order, we were told that there was a separate entrance for take out and that we would have to leave the restaurant and go around the corner to the take out section. It wasn't a big deal but I thought it was a rather arduous way of doing business since there didn't seem to be a lot of patrons in the restaurant or at the take out area. Oh well.
We ordered combo souvlaki dinner ($18.95) and a regular size Gyro dinner ($13.95). And what a sore disappointment both dishes turned out to be.
First of all, the combo souvlaki dinner is described as having "2 pieces of beef, 2 pieces of chicken, 2 pieces of lamb" and what we got was really just 2 pieces of each meat with some onions and peppers on ONE skewer. I thought for that kind of price tag, there would be at least a few skewers of souvlaki. To add insult to injury, all the meat were grossly over-cooked. I am not sure whose brilliant idea it was to put three different types of meat with different cooking times all on one skewer but the result was a stick of dried out and unpalatable souvlaki. Served with 2 choices of vegs, rice, lemon potato or fries, small greek salad and just as uninteresting garlic bread, this was the worst deal ever.
The gyro dinner did not fare better. Although there was a generous serving of well-seasoned gyro meat, about half of the meat were dried out outer layer strips of teeth-breaking meat.
We ordered veg and potatoes for one entree and rice and veg for the other. And I must say, the only reason for my 2 star rating is their potatoes and the seasoning for gyro meat. The steamed veggies served came straight out of a frozen bag (c'mon, you can't cut up your own veggies?) as the texture of carrots, broccoli and cauliflower bore the typical sponginess that frozen vegetable products have. I think it's disgraceful that a restaurant can't even serve up decent steamed vegetables.
An unfriendly server at the take out counter (a younger lass) who seemed genuinely uninterested in working there just made for an experience that we would not want to revisit.
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