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Love, love, love this restaurant. I've never had a mediocre meal yet. Everything on the menu is delicious and so fresh. Aside from the food, the 2 sisters (owners) are such characters that it makes going there feel like visiting family. Fun, fun, fun!

and this place beats the pants off most Greek restaurants. This is what a true Greek restaurant should be. Greek Town is for suburbanites and amateurs. If you've had a bad experience here, then my guess is you don't understand the true definition of Greek food.

This place has really great food I've been twice, and both times, my party has shared a bunch of appetizers, which are their strong suit. Definitely try the loukaniko and the kolokytho keftedes. The loukaniko is their sausage, char-grilled it's juicy and has a really good citrusy flavor. The kolokytho keftedes are zucchini pancakes served with skordalia, a garlicky potato puree. I also really like the horiataki, which is a roughly chopped Greek salad. The first time I went, my group ordered all of the above, plus saganaki, plus each of us ordered an entree. Way too much food. The second time, we were more reasonablewe ordered all of the above, and then split two orders of pasticchio among the four of us. Still a ton of food, but more manageable. The hostess is extremely friendly, and service is otherwise pretty good. The atmosphere is nicethey don't try to do the fakey fake Greek murals that you see in the places downtown. It's just understated and pretty. A little small, but it feels intimate. The only downside is that it's pretty expensive. ($16 for pasticchio, no matter how good? Yikes!) It's definitely not an everyday sort of place for my friends and I, but it's one that I don't feel bad about splurging on occasionally.

Went there as an option not to have to schlep all the way to Halsted St. It was terrible. They were out of 5-6 entrees that night. The taramousalata was just ok and the saganaki which took an extra 10 minutes was so so. The chicken regnate which took 45 minutes to prepare ( more like over an hour ) was mediocre. This was after the chef who is one of the sister owners said it was to die for. My braised lamb - I probably got about 5 forkfulls out of it and was starving when we left. Never experienced that after eating at a Greek place before. Service was iffy at best. I highly do not recommend and will be surprised if they make it beyond 2008 since I understand they just opened after seeing them and looking forward to going on Metromix.