Souvlaki Bar

Proprio

3.0

We ordered the chicken souvlaki platter. I was looking forward to a good ´ol souvlaki with tzatziki & a nice Greek salad on the side. We ordered 2 chicken souvlakis in pita, looking to share the rest. The waitress told us there would be a $3 surcharge because we would each get our own dish with potatoes, etc. I was ok with that.

What was delivered was 1 dish with 2 empty plates. The meat insides was not chicken souvlaki from a skewer but shawarma carvings. The waitress was nice & offered to change it, but I learned to never return a dish. I figured it would be a few dollars cheaper.

The sauce was ok, but not the delicious tzatziki that I love. Potatoes were very good. The most disappointing was the salad. It was not Greek at all - it was iceberg lettuce with a tiny piece of feta & a few slim slice sof tomato with a lousy dressing (& way too much dressing). We picked at it but left most of the salad untouched. I was hoping for an authentic Greek salad of tomatoes, onion, feta, olives,…

When we were ready to leave, it was taking a while before we saw our waitress, so we went indoors to the cash register. I stood there for a while watching our waitress come & go. She never noticed that we left our table & never noticed me standing there for a while. Eventually another employee noticed, addressed me & told our waitress we were waiting to pay.

The last disappointment was with the bill - turns out the gyros chicken carvings were the same price as chicken skewers (brochettes). How disappointing.

It seems that every Greek restaurant I try these days is a disappointing Americanized version of Greek. I’ll continue to search for a restaurant that serves authentic Greek.

Aug 29, 2023

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