WaiterAlexandria

I worked here for ONE HOUR. The kitchen is much more frightening than the menu. Drinking water is dipped out of paint buckets and it’s filthy and overrun with bugs.

Great food; excellent pizza and pasta; nice servers, manager is best in town. Great prices, too. Just don’t try to go for a date on a Fri or Sat during the rush hours (7-8); huge wait time and LOTS of kids. Any other night is great – esp Mon for pizza special or Tuesday for wine specials. Open kitchen so you can see what they’re doing. Wood fired oven.

I worked here for a week – my training consisted of “get out of here as soon as you can find another job” and “make sure you shake the cockroaches from the breadbaskets before you fill them.” They cannot keep a chef for more than a month; the owner/manager is, well, loopy to say the best. It’s ALL downhill; the kitchen is a mess, to say the very least, and it’s been closed for “public health safety” concerns several times. It’s not what it was 20 years ago.

Excellent atmosphere, beautiful kitchen, gorgeous food. Worth every penny. Terrific wine list, great chef, good management, caring staff, clean clean clean. Live music to boot. Lunch is a great value, too. (No, I don’t work here, but I know it inside out.)

This place has great food, period. The other review I read even admitted it – and I have to wonder why it took so long to get to their table, unless the reviewer really doesn’t have a sense of time.

So: I worked here, too, but the ex-manager (here’s a reason he’s the ex-manager) over-staffed for summer so (not due to anything on me) I was let go along with 4 other servers after a week.

I still eat here; I don’t work where I don’t like the food (and don’t continue working someplace unless I approve of policies – cleanliness, quality, management, etc.).

BRUNCH IS FABULOUS. They also have – I’m not kidding – the BEST chicken quesadilla ANYWHERE.

The owner of this place is ALWAYS on staff – and the best thing you can do is go for breakfast – the gyros omlette is amazing and the Greek potatoes that come with it are outstanding…. lunch and dinner this place is hard to surpass for its pizza and super Greek dishes. The gyros (again) is real, REAL, something a fine joint in Santorini (photos of which adorn the walls) would be jealous of. Freshest Greek salad you’ll find anywhere.