I was excited to see a new Greek restaurant in Surprise and was happy to hear my girlfriend was going to pick up lunch from them today.
By the time I got to the table at home she already had a disgusted look on her face. She said that the humus tasted like the stuff you get from a bag or box and add water to. I tried it and it just tasted like nothing but ground chickpeas to me. I was disappointed. There are a fair number of decent Greek and Mediterranean restaurants in the valley and having bland somewhat watery humus is definitely going to hurt your business among people that like Greek food. My poor girlfriend looked even worse after biting into her gyro. She is a little bit of a picky eater. I told her that the gyro was probably just prepared a little different from what she normally liked. She likes the meat to be seared on the grill or griddle a bit. She pushed it aside and proceeded to try her vegetables. I tried her discarded gyro while noticing that her vegetables looked like they had been boiled to death or sat under a heat lamp forever. At first the gyro seemed fine, but after the second or third bite I noticed that the meat tasted a little off. I'm not sure what it was, but it definitely was not what I'm used to. My chicken Gyro was fine. The meat was a little tough, but well seasoned. The fries were seasoned well, but soggy.
We will try it again down the road once it has time to mature, but they need to kick it up a notch to compete with places like Mike's, George's, Greek Wraps and the list goes on and on. They also need to realize that most people will drive a little for decent Greek and Mediterranean food.