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poor unappetizing kleftico dinner
By freechoice of Burnaby (1 Review)
Submitted Wednesday, September 18, 2013 - 12:02am [Dine in]
Hi everyone... I and my two sons ate here today and had the worst food that a greek
restaurant serves... This restaurant is in the Entertainment book coupon so its two for one and that may explain why the food we selected on the menu was terrible...
first the calmari and greek salad was satisfactory but when we order our favourite greek lamb kleftico (which is the shoulder lamb) to our dismay its was a dish with scraps of lamb meat , pile of rice and half of a potato... We have been to many many Greek restaurants in the Vancouver area and always order the Kleftico which is a large roasted lamb shoulder with all the trimmings bones etc.. and very juicy BUT
at this restaurant the dish as noted had dried lamb mashed meat scraps with rice and one small potatoe...I can assure you that we did went to this restaurant before and had the juicy bone large shoulder lamb...so I think this restaurant is cutting corners and serving poor unappetizing kleftico as note here...scraps of mashed meat...
When I ask the waitress whats this and where is the juice shoulder lamb with the bones she said that the meat falls off the bones and they dish it out... I say that portion control and dries out the meat....
I will not recommend this restaurant and certainly for 17.00 a plate of lamb scraps on rice is not what I envision of a Kleftico shoulder of lamb....
There are other greek restaurants in town that served the traditional lamb Kleftico...
The lamb scraps on the dish were so unappetizing and dried up I just told them to box it and take it home ....did not enjoy eating here
freechoice
ps The waitress was very polite ,helpful and courteous under the circumstance of poor food being served
I gave it three stars strictly because the food served was fair. That being said the menu is in desperate need of an update. No changes in many years... Boring. The restaurant itself is horribly cluttered, kind of tacky and dirty. when we sat down on those horribly uncomfortable seats, my forearm stuck to the table ! The servers are hit and miss. the one we had last night seemed like it was her... more
Let's begin with I was asked to come for a birthday. So normally I wouldn't go to a restaurant that has less than good ratings on yelp.
Environment was decent. Nice staff. Decent space.
I ordered the meatball dinner who after reading another person's review thought it would be good. I wouldn't say the flavor was bad. But It wasn't amazing. I wasn't wowed and I left hungry as hell.
The dinner...
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We were headed to a different restaurant and came upon this one. It looked interesting and had a good menu. It is family owned and operated. Our waitress was one of the grown daughters. She was charming and helpful. The food was fresh, well prepared and plentiful. The lamb was very good. If you have a hunger for Greek food, this is definitely the place to come.
Sfinaki Greek Taverna offers these services: grocery store, restaurant.