Tanner L.
Yelp
Gyro sandwich: great pita, good meat, good price, but overall just meh. Personally, I don't like fries in my gyro sandwich; the fries are good, and I'd rather just eat them on the side. Tzatziki a little too thick for my tastes (it added to the dry effect of the gyro, rather than lubricating things). The tomatoes were actually revolting--the most mealy tomatoes I've ever had the misfortune of tasting, so I pulled those out after a few bites. So between the dry tomatoes, the thick tzatziki, and the fries in there, the whole sandwich was kind of pasty. But worst of all, it seemed like it had no salt on it, so it was also pretty flavorless. A few tweaks would make this a great gyro: a little more salt all around, a slightly looser and more flavorful tzatziki, better (and more) onions, and good god, please, better tomatoes. And at least for me; I'd ask for the fries on the side only.
Greek salad: those tomatoes were at least 50% of the salad, and they were inedible (seriously, the worst I've ever had--you know what I mean: it's February, and these are the prototypical tomatoes picked green, then refrigerated for six months and let to slowly "ripen" to a grainy, mushy pink mess with no resemblance of tomato in any way). This time of year, at least, if you're going to lean so heavily on tomatoes, you have to just use hothouse grape tomatoes if you can't get a decent regular one. The rest of the salad was fine, but again, totally underseasoned. Seemed to be dressed in oil and vinegar, with a pinch of oregano--which would be fine if the ingredients (those darned tomatoes) were decent. But in the absence of delicious ingredients, you need a punchy dressing to make up for things (hence the ubiquitous "Greek dressing" with all it's salt and sugar and garlic, etc)...
The fries: GREAT, once we added a good bit of salt to them.
Would I ever go again? Maybe I'd try it once more, since it's down the street. The ingredients were (except those tomatoes) fresh and the prices were right; mostly it was a serious under-seasoning issue. Perhaps I'd get a family platter, so everything would be easy to season myself with salt, pepper, and a squeeze of lemon, at least...?
For reference, for me, the standard-bearer for this kind of Greek place is the old Spartan Souvlaki in Sunset Park/Bay Ridge (RIP!!). I also love the food at Avlee in Carroll Gardens.