Dionysos — Restaurant in Mainz

Stayed for a night in Mainz, just around the corner from this restaurant. We gave it a go, juts because it was close by and we like greek food. Moreover it had decent reviews, but it turned out not to be what we expected.

To sum it up, a small restaurant for the pensioners in the area (they even have special discounted prices in the menu), but don't go if you know your greek food.

Menu seems like it has many options, which was impressive, but the dishes we ordered were very poor: fried calamari was mushy, the gyros plate we got was heavy on potatoes and the meet was burned or too salty (ok, this is a taste thing), while the souvlaki was tasteles ( just pork on the grill).

What really annoyed us was the cold mezze platter, which in spite of the many mezzes advertised was heavy on tztatziky and the the taramasalata was an odd pink beans paste. When we asked the (greek-looking) waiter about it, he said it was all made in house and we it has fish roe although we couldn't taste it. He then suddenly forgot he can speak English and ignored us...

Cozy little Greek restaurant in a quiet neighborhood offering a great variety of food. I was generally satisfied with the food as well as the atmosphere.

We had a couple of main dishes: the lamb plate was very tasty, meat tender and juicy, unfortunately I cannot fully say that about the Apollo plate - the gyros pieces were rather dry, however still tasty and well seasoned. I also ordered Musaka which was delicious! Apart from the meat plates I really enjoyed the side dish in the form of fried potato slices, they were obviously air-fried as they were not oily at all, yet very crispy! Tzatziki were flawless and salads as side dishes had the right amount of dressing (unlike in some other restaurants the salads just swim in the pool of dressing).

Service was nice but could have been slightly more friendlier, I didn't see anyone smile while we were there. I appreciated the English menu and large selection of Greek wines (I had a delicious sweet red wine).

Paid by card. Visited in...

The waiter was rather abrupt and not exactly friendly. You get a kind of salad starter. Iceberg and grated carrot with ranch dressing.. but there is an olive so that makes it Greek! Lol. Some of the meals we had were accompanied with traditional Greek frozen veg, the crinkle cut carrot variety. It’s very meat and potato heavy as you come to expect in Germany. I’ve been disappointed here 3 times so I think that’s enough chances.. if you’re German I guess this is about a 4.5 star place, if you’re from a country with good food… it’s a 3 at best. My recommendation? There is a better Greek place down in town called Naxos. Or you could try the Korean place just near here. It’s way better. Positives - there are discounts for seniors and the decor is so ugly it’ll...