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| - I really, really wanted to join the group at Rumour for Yelp drinks, but being temporarily heavily medicated, I decided to forgo it and meet my regular Wednesday Ladies' Night Out group, who chose the Mad Greek, just because. The bonus was my Restaurant.com certificate.
I would have loved to sit in the patio, but it was too chilly. Have they not heard of patio heaters? With all the renovation that went on here, you'd think they could have run over to Costco and bought a few of 'em. But nooooo. There was one measly gas-fed fire pit in the center of a table. It had a real log burning, but the remaining table space wouldn't have been big enough for any plates. So we sat inside.
Black and white marble tile floors are surrounded by white walls and those big industrial heating ducts painted in Greek Isles blue. I could have been on Mykonos - or Israel. Same colors.
We waited a long time for someone to take our drink orders. We were just ordering coffee, but it took forever to arrive. Mine - the high test version - was room temp, so I sent it back. But it wasn't replaced until we managed to snag a waiter, which would have been easier if just one of us had a cane with a big hook. Our waiter kept flying by so fast that it was almost necessary to trip him to get his attention.
Three of us decided to share an order of saganaki, a Greek salad, and the 17-item appetizer assortment. The fourth, on a special diet, ordered grilled salmon.
The salmon came out charred, dried out and overcooked, and she had to send it back. The replacement was okay, but nothing to write home about. She said it tasted like it had enjoyed a lengthy vacation in the freezer.
The saganaki was blah. It tasted to me like fried fish. Not to the others, but they didn't like it, either. The Greek salad was very nice, but was a little stingy on the feta.
The appetizer platter is said to serve two people, but with the other stuff we ordered, it was too much for us three. It was uneven: the calamari were terrible: soggy, too chewy, and not hot enough. The gyro meat was way too salty for me, but then, everything always is. It also had decent tabbouli, eggplant salad, beef sausage, ground kebab meat, but mediocre hummus, a completely charred pepper, and two boring chicken wings.
The food wasn't bad enough to say that I'd never return, but it sure needs some improvement. The patio is definitely a plus, hence the extra star. But it will have to be much warmer to get me back to this place.
The best part came at the end. With the coupon, the whole food experience cost the three of us who shared the meal just $10 each, and that's including the 18% gratuity that was added on. And the waiter regaled us each with a piece of baklava to take home, which was a very nice touch, considering we'd spent so little. That and the patio will get me to go back.
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