Taverne Maria — Restaurant in Municipality of Chalki

Unfortunately the (few) restaurants of Chalki village are really spoilt by day-trippers from Rhodes which fill up the places without much effort. Nice, in parts shady location at the port with nice views. The menu is absolutely okay, basic island-style. The portions are small, the fried fish looked very lonely on their plate, the tzatziki was equally small - and the dakos was nothing that would deserve the name: it was a mushy wet something of old bread with a bit of tomato and feta added - no sign of rusks. Service: okay until they noticed that we would not order the entire menu up and down. Questionable...

There were 9 of us eating there and 8 out of 9 dishes were disastrous. I have chosen sardines with fries and the fish were definitely made from canned fish, which was very disappointing since the sea was about 5 metres away from the restaurant. The staff made us feel very unwelcomed, they were unhelpful and they really tried to get away from any requests we have had. The food was generally quite bad, althought it was very expensive relative to other local restaurants. It was overall a very bad choice, maybe they had an exceptionally bad day, but I...

I would've given 4 stars for the cozy location and 3 stars for the food that was average. But I gave one star because my friend and I got a recommendation and were guided to this restaurant by the trip office, saying that we're going to get 10% discount. And for two students who were on a budget, we thought the offer was reasonable. When the check came, we noticed that we didn't get any discount, yet we got even a tax on the bill!! It's not a matter of money it's a matter of feeling scammed...