Ikaros To Go

For a kitchen “regularly voted Best Greek in the East Bay”, I have to say their take-out option on Adeline Street is incredibly disappointing. Ikaros to Go cooks out of the ghost kitchen of Adeline Food Hall and tastes exactly like how you’d imagine something made in a cafeteria that pumps out a dozen different quick cuisines. The fries, gyro meat, vegetables, and even tzatziki sauce taste like they were prepped in a far off factory before being frozen-thawed to go out for delivery. The fries were thick and bland, the meat was clearly pre-cut significantly earlier in the evening (since when is gyro meat not shaven from a rotisserie directly before going out?), and the bell peppers were not only unexpected for a traditional gyro but also dry and cracked around the edges (see picture). Even the tzatziki sauce tasted like it was apologizing for something — maybe that it moonlights as a salad dressing for another ghost restaurant in the hall? I might forgive the generic ready-made meal quality if it weren’t for the $20 price tag (mind you, I picked it up myself to avoid any additional delivery fees — wild to think people are paying even more for this gyro). I have to hope that the quality of this gyro is limited to their ghost kitchen and not the same one that Ikaros serves at their dine-in restaurant. Overall, I would not recommend Ikaros to Go. I truly try not to leave one star reviews unless I really, really mean it — and for this place, I genuinely do. Save yourself the trip to the soulless chamber of the Adeline Food Hall locker room.