Εστιατόριο Η Μυρτιά — Restaurant in Athens

The family are lovely and kind 👏 We were told that we could only choose from pre-cooked food that was on display. This was then plated up and warmed up in a microwave, one at a time. The first one to be warmed up needed warming up again by the time it was served. It feels like we caught them by surprise in turning up. One of our group almost started helping out in order to speed things up. There was no maliciousness on their part at all, we feel. We're sorry to put a negative review on here. But we thought it would help any non-greeks realise the potential challenges. We came because the reviews were so high on Google... What we didn't understand was that locals that came in afterwards seemed to receive freshly prepared food. We're not sure why we weren't helped out in a similar way. No menu was provided. We would have loved to have ordered a Greek salad! Or some freshly grilled meat. The lady seemed to feel bad about our meal so she brought free orange cake for our dessert, which was beautiful. Also a glass of raki! We are still a bit puzzled to work out what went wrong because the family...

Homemade, flavourful, extremely cheap.

We felt like eating a family meal, both for the flavours and the ambience!

Service was fast and kind, portions were big.

Whats not to love.

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Proper Greek food, at a good price. Highly recommend for lunch, I had a really nice chicken soup. Staff are really nice and speak English. So good I came back again while...