My mom loves to eat Greek food so when we decided to take her out for dinner we decided on Greek. We wanted to try a place in Laval but it was closed so we drove to Montreal since I've heard good things about Nostos. I have to seriously question the taste buds of my family and friends since they suggested it.
We get there and its a seat yourself place. That's fine. We find a table that seats 3. Our waitress comes up and asks if we'd like a beverage. We all declined. We get the menu and decide on a calamari plate to split between the 3 of us.
The calamari was perfectly cooked but under seasoned. That is fine as well. I can add my own salt. Nothing wrong with that.
Mom orders - Gyro plate
Sister - Chicken Souvlaki plate
Me - gyro souvlaki plate
My mom's plate was a bunch of meat, rice, salad, and fries. There was no tzatzaki served with the plate of meat, nor pita bread. This is unheard of. Name a greek place where you have to order pita and tzatzaki separate when ordering a gyro meat plate! Fries were disgusting. Salad was okay.Mom thought the gyro meat had a weird taste to it.
Sister's plate. Chicken was bland and tzatzaki had freaking paparikia on it. Who does that?! You want a splash of color try adding a black kalamata olive or something.
My plate - the fries were disgusting. They should consider changing their oil a bit more often or lowering the heat of their fryer. I agree with my mom, the gyro meat was off. There was a weird taste to it. I personally loved the salad but wish the portion was bigger. If I were to ever go back I would ask for no fries and double salad.
When our waitress came to ask if there was anything else she could get us I tried to order a souvlaki pita to go. The waitress tells me the kitchen is closed, at 8:58pm. Now here is my problem with this...
1. If the kitchen was closed why did you come ask me if there was something else I wanted?
2. If the kitchen is closing and you have customers don't you think you should notify them of the fact that you are closing so that they can order?
3. Who closes a kitchen before 8:58pm. She said "Sorry the kitchen is closed already..."
I wouldn't go back. Everyone seems to like the chicken so if someone were to bring me chicken from there they might change my mind but for now, I won't be going back.