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| - Folia Grill describes itself as serving Greek Fast Food. Really good Greek Fast Food. The owners know the Greek street food food they are inspired by very well and they do an excellent job at making it. I have no quibbles about the food at all.
We recently went for lunch.
When you first walk in the decor is so nice and clean it takes a second to realize that the service is fast food style, not waited tables. There were only two staff, a woman doing most of the cooking and a guy who did everything else, looking at the website these are the owners.
There was a little bit of business over getting a table despite their being 12 seats and only 5 other patrons. The table we wound up at was interesting as it was directly opposite the kitchen so we got to watch the action. For what is basically a fast food joint I was generally impressed, in particular that the salads were made fresh from fresh ingredients, OK the french fries were frozen from a bag but everything else except the pita bread (which was excellent) seemed to be made in house (in some cases, like the bifteki and the zucchini sticks obviously pre-made but not brought in frozen). All of the food looked really good and the portions were beyond generous. So here's the first caution, there's one cook, there's really no expediting and some things like hand chopping veggies for each village salad to order takes a little time, we we're cool with this, well worth it for well prepared food, but some of the patrons who came in for quick takeout seemed a little annoyed.
Caution number two is that the owners insistence on authenticity seems a little fusty. When we were there someone came in, perused the short menu for a second and asked why they didn't have chicken souvlaki, the answer was "because that wouldn't be authentic, they don't cook chicken that way in Greece, only pork and lamb" the guy looked stunned for a second then turned around and walked out.
There were a bunch of really minor service hiccups while we were there, nothing that was enough to put me off the place, but things that felt like first week jitters which shouldn't still be there as they have been open for a few months now.
We each had a pork souvlaki pita and shared an order of zucchini sticks, that and two bottles of water came out to less than 15 bucks for both of us. The sandwiches were very good, although next time I think I would probably opt for the gyros (chicken only) or the bifteki. The zucchini sticks were delicious and the portion insanely huge for the price, we couldn't finish it.
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