Cafe El Greco, Sarasota, Florida Restaurant Details

Food:

Best Greek place on main street. They have been in business for a long time and it shows. Great quality, fast service and a good selection. Another fantastic lunch place! The owners often are there and very friendly.

Food:

I had heard amazing things about El Greco on Yelp and Urbanspoon for a few years back. So I eventually mustered up the courage to try it. I would NOT recommend this place for a nice dinner. Probably one of the least enjoyable experiences in my life at a restaurant. The older staff, or at least the older waiters, look down on us and other young couples at the restaurant. We felt this animosity toward us. We decided to shake it off. However, they kept messing up our orders. When the food arrived, after nearly 1.5hrs later, the waitress placed a receipt next to us. I felt like she didn't like her job, but she made our experience worse because of it.

Food:

Save your time and patience and just take any of the other restaurants around, it's really not worth it!

I don't know how they manage to be still in business with such an restaurant. Let's start with the quality of the food we got.

My girlfriend ordered a Gyro Platter for around 16$ which was basically some gyro + tzatziki + salad and pita bread. The salad came as appetizer and was okay, everything else came together as main dish. The gyro and tzatziki was eatable, but nothing special, it tasted just not like greek food. The pita on the other hand was gross, soaking in fat and not enjoyable.

I ordered the Shish Kebap for 17$ which came with a soup. The soup upfront was okay and eatable, the rest not so much. The lamb meat tasted like any other meat without much flavour to it, the rice and the vegetable which came with it were okay.

In addition to that, they serve water which has a really strong and bad sulfur taste to it. I don't know if this is a thing with their water in general, but the water was disgusting.

But now about the worst part of our experience. We came in at about 8pm, in a not quite full restaurant with more than enough waiters. It took our waiter 15 minutes to take our orders and give us some water (which is totally fine). After that, it took more than an hour to get our food. In this whole time we saw our waiter twice and many other customers come and go in the same time. The waiter promised after the first 30 minutes that our food will be ready any minute now, leaving us thirsty at our table. It took more than another 30 minutes to get our food from here. When we finally got our food after already spending more than an hour in the restaurant he apologised leaving my complaints unattended that four other tables which came more than half an hour after us already got their food...
I don't need to add that he was not caring about us at all or ever taking care of our drinks.

We finally left the restaurants 1hr 45mins later with a bad dinner. Never again! Stay away!

Food:

Wonderful all. Not found such original food & great service at fair prices since Greektown in Detroit (my home orig.) b4 it became The greektown casino. Streetside in a cool part of town, outside service on a nice nite is θαυμάσιος

Food:

The gyro is great and the tzadziki sauce is wonderful. The only problem is that they screw you on the sides. A small side is 35¢, a medium is 2.50 and a large is 7.00. Crazy prices. You should get some sides with it and not pay these outrageous prices. Mind you, the gyros are really good. Never tried anything else. And after all these bad reviews, I don't know if I want to try anything else.