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| - So really wanted to love this place as it's a 10 min walk from my mom's plus we love Greek food and there seems to be less and less good Greek food in the city.
We went on a Monday night and aside from two pick up orders, we were the only customers, the entire night. Waitress was nice, brought over water right away, and we kind of just launched into our order. Asked what the soup was, she said lentil, I said great I'll have that as long as it's gluten free and I'll have the chicken souvlaki dinner, no rice, no feta. My mom said she'll have the same but feta was fine. Again, we're the only people in there... she needed to go write this down. No drinks btw.
They brought our salads right away, VERY small, very bland with cheap canned pitted olives. Bad sign. Then the waitress said there "might" be gluten in the soup, as they use a chicken broth, so they don't know. Seems like an important thing to know but I guess it's not important to them so I skipped the soup.
30 mins later (and again, we're the only people there) our food arrives. Not sure what took so long. The chef brought out the food himself and of course, the order is wrong, even after she wrote it down. Mine is correct but they put rice in my mom's plate. Since we had waited so long and were starving we said don't worry about it. Her plate looked correct, mine was a small pile of chicken and then about 20 pieces of potato. He asked if we wanted hot sauce. I've been going to Greek restaurants for about 30 years, this is the first time I've been asked that. We declined. Then the waitress came and asked us if we wanted hot sauce. We declined again.
There is no doubt the food was very fresh and unlike most Greek restaurants, wasn't overly salty which was great. The chicken was the best thing on the plate, wish there had been more of it but my mom's said hers tasted burnt. The potatoes, all 20 pieces, were flavourless. Fresh, but without taste. Rice pretty much the same story as I had some of my mom's. Suddenly it made sense why they were pushing the hot sauce on us, they wanted the food to have some flavour.
The tzatziki, if you can call it that, was the worst I've ever had. Pretty sure it was sour cream based (yuck) and way too light on the garlic. Such an important part of the meal and I had to just put it aside, what a waste.
After taking our plates she asked if we wanted dessert, of which they had baklava and I reminded her again... don't do gluten.
I work in the service industry so I believe in tipping well but I went a little light tonight since the food took so long and for two orders for two people she didn't get it right even after writing it down. So the two dinners and some water came to $40.00. Not a bad price but I left feeling pretty hungry.
The ambience is great, the food is very fresh, the waitress is very nice and the prices are fair. The food is too flavourless for my taste, the tzatziki is downright gross, the chef is over friendly, comes across fake as I think he knows the food isn't so hot and the waitress, while nice, couldn't get two orders right and of course, 30 mins when we're the only two there, is not right.
We won't be back which is a shame as the foundation is solid. We'll stick to our usual spot, Green Eggplant on Queen Street. We went due to the reviews here but we've noticed a lot of the food people are raving about are the sandwiches. We also believe, for this area, this is a stand out joint with fresh food. They just don't do Greek entree's very well.
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