Aristofanis Restaurant — Restaurant in Argostoli Municipality

First of all the place where the restaurant stands is amazing. It is right next to water bridge and you can see swans on the water, ducks and if you are lucky maybe even surfacing turtles.

Restaurant has overhead tarps set up so you won't suffer from the heat, but the reason for 2 lost stars are as follows:

Lost opportunity: They could have had better tables, instead of old style wooden tables with plastic cover they could've used better cloth. More comfortable chairs would be a great addition, because that is the place where you want to relax and enjoy your evening in comfort. Which is nigh impossible with those slick wooden chairs that serve only their purpose of providing a place to sit instead of a modicum of comfort.

Simple menu without explanation: This restaurant is not for people that are first timers to the cuisine. Waiters offer little to no explanation about the dishes and give almost no suggestions, it's like they do not even care much. Menu itself just lists a name of dishes and prices without any description or visualisation of the meal you are about to order.

All in all the place is good, but not if you don't know what to order. Full relaxation is out of question. The view is amazing though and you can even rent a paddle boat nearby (50 meters) to go out on water...

The place looks lovely from the bridge, but that is where it ends. To start of, the service was really the bare minimum level. No greeting when we walked up, or when we sat down. The lady who served us was grumpy, not attentive nor a pleasure to be served by.

They absolutely overcooked my tuna, twice! I sent it back the first time, clearly said it was overcooked, they sent me the same one even more cooked. If you are a seafood restaurant and you don't know how to cook tuna steak, I pray for you! I didn't eat the tuna, when we got the bill it was still listed. We asked to remove it, and had the waitress come back saying I said it was undercooked, ridiculous. There was no redness anywhere on that steak. When explaining that, she scoffed and without saying anything walked off. She came back and threw the receipt on the table. She probably left her hospitality at home today.

Also, we didn't ask for bottled water, got it (we thought it was complimentary) didn't drinkt it and they charged us. We did get it removed from the bill. Same for the bread, not complimentary but we ate it so fine.

The tzatziki was way too much garlic.

The Kefalonia beer was nice, but bottled and available in any supermarket so really not worth it. Go elsewhere people!! So many...

Really wanted to rate higher but have to be honest. Staff were lovely, really friendly and spoke great English. Very fast at taking our order and bringing out our food, but the food wasn't quite what we were expecting. Plate of calamari, we were expecting rings but it was a mix of rings and baby octopus. Head included 🤢 tasted very oily (like chip fat) no dip, side salad, nothing. Shrimp linguine for 16 euro!! It was a plate of pasta with about 4 prawns. We asked if we could have a half portion for our daughter, but was told no. She didn't like them as she was expecting shrimp (that is a very small prawn where we come from), they were big with heads on. But that's a very expensive meal for just pasta with 4 prawns... Seafood platter was very reasonably priced. 22euro for 2 people. But it said mussels, crayfish, shrimp and calamari. But it arrived with a huge pile of sardines, around 6 shrimp/huge prawns, 4 mussels in shells and 2 crayfish. Plus a pile of mixed calamari and baby octopus (see description of that above). No sauces, no salads on the side. Some lemon slices but all in all, it was very expensive for what you got and not as described. Plus the toilets were a pain to use, as you had to get a member of staff to type a pin code to...