Parasties Traditional Tavern Meat&Fish — Restaurant in Municipality of Kantanos-Selinon

Parasties used to be our go-to restaurant last year, especially since it was warmly recommended by the owner of the hotel we always stay at when visiting Paleochora. Last year during our 5 days stay we dined every night at Parasties, the service was efficient, welcoming and the food impeccable. This year we visited the restaurant twice in June and once in September.

In June we noticed that several new members had join the service team and while not so serious mistakes were made in our orders, we globally enjoyed our time and stayed on a rather positive note.

Nonetheless, during our visit in September, tonight as I write the review, we are terribly disappointed to have experienced an unusual practice from the service team that consisted to edit our bill without our asking and pin it on our table without any explanation while we were just starting to enjoy our appetisers. We weren’t the only customers to receive the bill during our meal, the neighbouring tables were as surprised as us, especially since the waitress mistook the bills between our tables and did not even care to apologise or give any further explanations. The service had just started (around 8pm) and we truly felt unwelcomed, as if the Parasties team was bothered by our presence and needed us to shorten our time there…

We ended our meal shortly after, we did not finish, we took the bill printed earlier to the waitress in order to pay and we left the place with our plates still full.

Not one single member of the service team cared to ask if everything was ok or why were we leaving that early without finishing our food and without taking the usual raki / dessert offered to sign the end of any decent Greek restaurant experience.

We then went to another restaurant, a few meters away from Parasties in order to have a more welcoming experience and a moussaka to replace the one we left unfinished in our plates at Parasties.

I really hope the management will care to take the time to train the service team in order to deliver the positive customer service experience it used to deliver last year, especially given the great potential the restaurant...

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