MERAKI Greek Taverna — Restaurant in Northern Territory

For Greek food its nice, but Greek, I was expecting alot more.. more food, I left still hungry.. and staff were friendly except when we pointed out that something was wrong with a dish which they did replace but did not agree that the dish was burnt (compared to the other 4x same dishes it was black and hard down the bottom and tasted burnt. The one they replaced it was luscious and rich with flavoursome melted cheese and eggplant and mince were heavenly.. totally different from the first one. Pork ribs meal for my male colleague, he was looking for more.. the plate should have been on the kids menu. The food service was a bit slow, noticed a lady waiting at pay desk stood there for a while before staff helped her, only one thing on menu available for dessert Baklava which looked dry, no syrup on it.. and the noise they need to get some sound barriers.. very nice Industrial modern take with concrete walls and floors with some beautiful framed pictures. MUST try Mousakka even though the above comment 🙃.. the 2nd one was delcious and this one would probably be filling. Photo attached.. Entry is on Austin Lane and lots of street parking in...

A few issues with the service. We ordered 2 platters, the meat one and the seafood one, both for 2 people each. As we were a party of 4 we expected both platters would come out at the same time, but this was not the case. We received our first platter, then waited 50 minutes for the second one to arrive, some 30 minutes after finishing the first platter. When l asked where our second platter was, l was told, it was mistakenly given to another table, and we would get ours in another 10 minutes. We finished the second platter and were planning on having dessert, but after waiting another 30 minutes, without the table being cleared or asking if we wanted dessert we decided to leave. The meat platter for 2 was pretty good, tasty and well cooked. The seafood platter was not worth the money, 2 prawns, 1 bug cut in half, few piece of octopus and alot of chips. The entertainment was nice to fill in the time while we waited for food or service. Probably wasn't enough to warrant...

The food was good and we enjoyed everything we tried. But the service was extremely slow and unattentive unfortunately. We ordered a couple of dishes and were advised things would be brought to the table as they're ready. That's fine if each dish came out within a few minutes of each other. But it ended up being 20-30 minutes in between every dish. So by the time the meats came out at the very end, the side dishes that you would've liked to have them with (i.e. bread, chips) were either gone or stone cold. So dinner was eating bread on its own, chips on their own, salad on its own, meat on it's own etc. with long pauses in between. As nothing is served with sides.

It was also impossible to flag down staff to get a second drink so didn't get to have more than one. The food was decent though so I'll give it 4 stars as I wish the restaurant well. But the service really...