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| - Market Grill, Durango
One Fri evening in mid-August, coming back after hiking on Mt. Charleston one Fri evening, my wife and I were hungry and thirsty. A quick check with Yelp showed a Greek restaurant nearby Durango off I-95. So, we happily rushed into Market Grill Greek Café for beers and dinner!
After settling down with a couple of Greek beers, (&3.5@, NOT BAD!), we began to notice something in the restaurant:
- It's spacious with high ceilings; has an airly, clean and comfortable decor; has a nice patio...
- Its TV continuously shows pics of theirGreek dishes, deserts, etc, and how they are prepared. It seems to us that this is the ONLY hint that Market Grill Café is a Greek restaurant. We did hear "Oopa!" a few times, but did not see any flaming cheese anywhere?
FOOD:
- We followed a couple ofYelpy recommendations and ordered the popular "Chicken Parmegranate," "Chicken Gyro", anda "Greek Salad". The Greek salad was pretty tasty with lots of black olives; but the lettuce was too finely chopped. The Chicken Parmegranate was too bland, and the chicken not firm; Chicken Gyro needed salt and pepper to boost the taste. The dishes were not how we remembered as Greek cuisine would taste like as those served in Greek restaurants in Detroit, Chicago.... Well, perhaps, the regular Greek chef was not on duty that evening?
SERVICE:
- Our waitress was attentive and and helpful. [GOOD!] But, we did notice a couple of times when customers were waiting by the hostess station, but there was no hostess and the restaurant people just walked by WITHOUT greeting them, leaving them standing for a while! No one was busy at the time, as the place was pretty EMPTY! This is not a good practice! [BAD!] I was surprised that the customers did not turn around and leave the place!
HAPPY HOUR (3-6)
- $1 off drinks and appetizers. We were too late for the happy hour that evening.
Peterskis, Aug 2012
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