Manoli’s Taverna

This place is a little hard to find if you’ve never been here before. The décor is a little funny with their strange choice for their table top covers. The food is just edible. It’s not that great and I’ve only seen 2 – 4 people eat in there at a time. I’m not sure how they’re surviving but they are. I find their portions are too small for what you pay. I blame this on Stephos haha. Sometimes I find UFOs in my cup of water so I don’t even drink anything when I go in there. Everything that goes down is hot food or from a pop can.
I don’t plan to eat here ever again. If I do then it would be because we have a company function here. The lady who serves us is an interesting character. I love her because she’s very friendly and LOUD and she’d be the other reason why I’d return because she’s entertaining to watch and listen to.
If they worked on their food I’m sure they would be more busy. They’re lucky they’re surrounded by businesses because I think that’s what is keeping them going. People will stop by here for some quick lunch or dinner.

On my way back to the hotel, I thought Greek sounded good. Good Greek food did sound good. This place was somewhere between that and just plain food.
I entered around 5PM on a Tuesday to an empty, slightly musty smelling restaurant. I chalked the smell up to the place appearing to be an old building. I was the only, yes the only person in the place. I waited a few minutes for the lady who told me to go ahead in to finally drag in off the smoke break to get a menu.
I identified as a first timer, to which the heavily perfumed, probably, part/​owner, waitress replied, «I know, if you weren’t, I’d know you». I thought this was odd, but figured it was a strong locals haunt. Not tonight. The only other folks that graced the place while I was there were a loud, rough looking couple that looked more like they fit below a highway overpass than in a restaurant. The woman was looking for work, anything, janitorial, anything.
I asked for the lady’s recommendation. The Roast Lamb it was. A bowl of soup was good. The roast lamb was tender and tasty enough, but it wasn’t very spicy. The rice was pretty good, the salad was weak. I had a couple glasses of house wine. All together, $ 42.
I would not return and would not recommend this place. I should have read the lone Unilocal review (not that I would have heeded the warning).

I ordered lunch for the office. They suggested we go with the buffet for $ 9.99 per person, which included skewers, bread, tzatziki, humous, greek salad, rice and potatoes. I added on spanakopita for the vegetarians. We had lamb, chicken and beef skewers. First problem was when I went to pick up the order. They have no concept of how to pack food for that many people (16). The heavy tzatziki and humous were in styrofoam containers that bucked and overflowed when a container was placed on top. The rest was just given to me in containers, no bags or box. I asked for a box and they put it in a wine carton. The hot potatoes and rice were in square tin foil, and didn’t fit the box. I had to carry them as they were, and it was too hot to carry with bare hands, I had to grab napkins to use as potholders. I finally got the food to the office with little mishap. The meat was all over done (I didn’t have the beef, though, maybe it was perfect) and bland. The spanakopita was VERY salty. Bread looked yucky, I didn’t have any. Greek salad was OK, tzatziki was good. I will NOT be patronizing this establishment again. Oh– and the parking lot is set up stupidly.