Olympia Restaurant

Wonderful pizza! How do they make the crust? I usually don’t eat the outer crust on a pizza, but alway devour this one. We always order a half House /​half Meat Lovers pizza with a carafe of their house red wine. Always friendly service, and they have an outdoor patio. Love it!!!

very rude customer service! took 30 minutes to get any service. When my friend went in to ask for someone this Greek lady was sitting at a table stuffing her face and waved him to the kitchen and went back to downing her meal. The Tortellini I had tasted like something you could buy at Safeway. It lacked any kind of originality. My friend liked his calamari though…

Waitress got the order horribly wrong, then another server informed us she was a bus girl and could not speak English properly. That might have been charming, except the food (lamb chops) was atrocious. An ugly, dour restaurant serving substandard Greek food. On a positive note. Wait. I can’t think of anything.

Excellent roast lamb, that was tender and moist.
They have a fresh pita bread that is 100 times better than I had in any other reseraunt, store or bakery

staying at the coast plaza. needed food. ordered a large with 3 toppings. came quick for a Friday night. $ 27 with tip &tax. lots of cheese but too much char on bottom. I like char, this was burnt. Im sure this does, nt happen regularly. I would have sent it back if I was alone. Im sure this was my luck. I know they have been there forever!

The food is fine but the service is consistently slow, slow and slow. Our waitress last night delivered our salad to share and never showed up with plates… She seemed surprised when she finally came back to the table and I mentioned it. «Oh did you want plates now? «
NO TIP

Garbage service! This place seriously needs to get their shit together. Took them an hour and a half to deliver pizza, then it was stale and cold, so called for a refund and said the most they could do was give me 5 $ credit because the delivery driver said it was delivered 45 minutes ago but in fact I have proof of the apartment buzzer (which goes to my phone) of it being 10 minutes before I called. Refused to help or listen and hung up. VERY RUDE. Complete garbage service.

We ordered the Fettuccine Alfredo with chicken and the Spaghetti with meatballs at 5.30pm last night. At 6.30pm I called to get an ETA on our food. I was told it had just left the restaurant and wouldn’t be too far away. I called again at 7pm to be told the same thing. I called for a third time at 7.30pm, to initially be told it had left the restaurant (again). After I piped up and said it wasn’t good enough, the staff member offered me a 20% discount on our meal. I pressed him as to why it was taking so long and was told «don’t worry, buddy, it’s coming.» I heard the staff member say to the driver «take this meal here first» and was then offered a 50% discount. Needless to say we were lied to each time about the meal being on it’s way.
When it did arrive, well over 2 hours after we’d ordered, the containers were scorching hot, as if the food had been nuked in the microwave to be reheated. The Fettuccine Alfredo was bland at best. The Spaghetti was just as tasteless and the meatballs were dry. The garlic bread was cold and dry. A total disappointment (but based on the experience so far, not a total surprise). The bagged caesar salad we brought from the grocery store during the long wait was the highlight of our meal.
I would go out of my way to dissuade anyone from eating here. The service was atrocious and the food was offensive. If I could have given no stars, I would have. For the record, I live 5 minutes from the restaurant.

At the restaurant, the pizza is awesome. For home delivery it is a soggy mess. For a third time today, the pizza was cold and soggy and downright inedible. When we called the manager and complained, he simply offered to send another pizza. It took an hour for the first one, and he could not promise the next one would come any sooner. When we complained that the pizza box was not in a thermal package, he said they don’t use thermal delivery and that the pizza is shipped just in the box. That explains the disaster. So net-​net. If you are craving pizza, go their restaurant, order delivery from someplace else– even frozen grocery store option is infinitely better!

Worst place ever! They have white girls who send the black chefs to «ok» us to get our order. That was my first experience there after many years.
Worst service ever! The staff is extremely rude and unhappy
Now this second experience was a take out order.
When I asked to speak to the mgr the uppity white girl behind the till said no one is here and then told me to sit down to wait for my order but said it so fast and so Rudely it made me cancel our order.
Will not be going back! Even tho I live next door. They don’t treat the customers very well takes like 45 mins to be served and they have no customer service skills whatsoever. This place only exists from their past glory. As most establishments in downtown the quality is lacking. You would get better service at a place in Surrey.
Also I wouldn’t go there if your not Caucasian or a bougie gay professional. We went to the falafel place next door and was treated very well! Not sure how these people run a business with such poor service as the food is mediocre Greek food.

They have the best pizza in town and after searching for a good pizza place I finally found one! Its filling and cooked to perfection and I’ve been in other times for other dishes too and they’re not bad but the lasagna sauce however could use some help. Its worth making the trip downtown and returning but if you expect some fine dining experience you better try elsewhere.

I was in last night., I keep saying I won’t go back because the service has deteriorated so much. Despite having 3 servers on… I still was ignored. The it was about 9:30. Each of the girls was in the back doing god knows what. They were running around but none of them even looked at me. One even filled up water jugs and went outside to water the hanging baskets. A table of two came in after me and sat right buy front of the restaurant… They were served… and I sat there being ignored.
We went down the street to try another place which had just closed… so on our way back we said lets just try Olympia again, we were starving… we turned to go in and one of the waitresses stepped out of the door, unhooked it… gave us a look like.- please don’t come in we are trying to close early — -and closed it in front of us. we did not go in… it was only about 10… the are supposed to be open till 11pm
The last time I was in there, I saw a huge table get up and walk out because no one approached them for about 15 minutes… I felt so uncomfortable and wondered how much money this place is losing by not being able to service the customers… We ended up walking out too… nobody even noticed… on another visit the waitress was so overwhelmed that she kept making mistakes… she even forgot to give me back my credit card… which I noticed after I got to West Vancouver. I had to come back and get it.
Get a busboy… or give each server max 6 – 7 tables… so things go smoother…

Honestly this place is good, no complaints, decent service, food is exactly what you would expect. We didn’t have any drinks but I did eat half a chicken! I will be back, why not. its a cute neighbourhood spot.

I’ve been here twice and happy to say that both times my guests and I had a really nice home-​cooked kinda meal!
Suggestion: put a little olive oil or dressing on the salad (but it was fresh and had variety).
Had the roast lamb… amazing and filling! Guests had chicken souvlaki and tomatoe soup — all happy and I’ve been there twice and no complaints from anyone :) dishes looked amazing.
Very reasonable pricing for amount and quality of food! I suggest this over the once popular place on davie bc this food is not oversalted, its not bitter (as in potatoes), its not oily greasy lamb, its not at all overpriced, its not old and slimy (salad), and its not overcrowded or has lineups! Yay! I found my new greek place and its awesome because the owners I believe are Persian which means good food!
Service: Great!
Food: Even better!
Ambiance: Exactly how you imagined it
Parking: Under hotel or street
Drinks: I had none so can’t comment

The owner was very nice. Cute Greek décor. The chicken brochettes were the juiciest ones I’ve ever had, ever. So much that when I forked my first piece, juices splattered out. It was so beautiful I swear…

This cosy little place offers good, homely food at a reasonable price and in a nice setting. The atmosphere is very relaxed — the servers are friendly but don’t try to engage you with too much chatter, which is a good thing in my books. The restaurant is decorated nicely in a pretty authentic Greek style, with accompanying Greek music to match.
The food is definitely satisfying. The grilled chicken with rice, potatoes, pita, salad and tzatziki will set you back about $ 14 and comes with TWO large chicken breasts. It would be nice if they offered a ‘small’ option with only one breast, as a lot of the other Greek places around the West End do.
I’m told the pasta is also great. The drinks are fairly priced and they can put together pretty much any kind of cocktail you ask for. They once made me a Paralyzer that came in a full pint glass. Excellent.

This place satisfied my cravings for Greek style pizza i a big way. The crust is nice and crispy, the cheese generous and the sauce is so flavourful!
They gave me an estimate of an hour to an hour and 20 mins as it was Valentine’s day, they got here in around 50 minutes so I was quite pleased. Thanks for being there in my time of need!

I ordered a greek pizza and it turned out to be the worst pizza I have ever tasted. Greasy, thick not crunchy at all. Untasty.
The hummus was… a chickpeas soup. The worst one money could buy.
The baklava there is on the picture to the baklava they delivered there´s quite a difference.
The baklava shoul be crispy, crunchy and full of pitachio falvour. The philo paste was not crunchy or crispy because it was soaked in whatever sweet sirup it was that tasted like nothing,
My worst possible recommendation. Very expensive for what I got, if you have enemies bring them here.

Based on delivery service alone, this place gets 4 stars.
We’ve had everything from a handful of appetizers to souvlaki, pizza to lasagna.
The pizzas are what you would expect from a decent Greek-​Italian menu: a hefty, somewhat oily crust (which I like), generous toppings and lots of cheese. From the varieties I’ve tried, they were all good except the chicken pizza. The chicken pizza was very bland though it had many toppings. Any of the others I quite like.
The pastas are better baked with extra cheese. On a cold lazy day, they hit the spot.
In the appetizers, the meatballs were pretty yummy and came with lots of sauce and feta. You could almost make your own pasta and dump the meatballs and sauce onto it. The spanakopita was pretty good, the fried zucchini as well, though a little greasy (as you would expect from deep-​fried zucchini).
All in all, the portions are big, and the food is better than average. The prices are a little bit higher than your average mom and pop restaurant, but the ingredients are also better than average. Don’t expect fine dining, but yummy, good food.
Lastly, and I think this earned them an extra star, the service is great. They once sent me a free slice of cake because an appetizer I ordered was not available that day (I did choose something else). Things like that go a long way nowadays, at least for me!
Give it a try and see for yourself :)

I came to visit my Dad in BC and this is one of the places I was brought. It’s a small but inviting little place with a nice patio.
My Dad and his girlfriend LOVE the pizza here. Unfortunately I didn’t get a chance to try it, since I was so full from my chicken souvlaki. :) Good size portion served with a nice soft warm pita.
I’ll have to come back here next time and try the pizza!