Ostria — Restaurant in Municipality of Naxos and the Lesser Cyclades

Horrible service, bad food! I ordered the lamb with Risotto. The lamb was shredded and even being shredded I couldn’t chew it. I have grown up eating lamb. I also am not picky when it comes to chewing. I have never complained in a restaurant about meat being tough in my entire life. But I literally couldn’t swallow this meat. It was as tough as leather. I told the server that this lamb was not cooked right and I couldn’t eat it. He tried to tell me that this is how lamb is. I told him I am a regular lamb eater and then he tried to tell me this is HOW GREEK LAMB IS. I told him that I just had lamb last night at the neighboring restaurant and it was tender. Finally, he reluctantly offered to replace my meal with an appetizer of my choice since I couldn’t eat the main portion of my meal. I hesitated because the whole exchange was argumentative and by that point I was losing my appetite to even be there. He left the menu with me and said to let him know. My wife encouraged me to get something since this was our dinner and my meal was not edible. He came back a few minutes later and I told him I would take a turkey club. He then Informed me that he had checked with the kitchen and the meat was fine and that if I ordered the turkey club I would have to pay for it. The whole experience was frustrating. You can have a beautiful restaurant on the beach but if you treat your customers with disdain it makes the whole experience ugly. I would never go back to this restaurant or recommend it. I think because we are tourist they don’t care if we come back. But this kind of treatment of tourist has to stop. The only way it stops is when we...

Unfortunately one of the worst experiences we’ve had in a long time. Zero flexibility in the menu, simple things like adding avocado or changing the eggs from fried to boiled as an example. We requested eggs to be well done, scrambled eggs came out very wet and sloppy, when we explained we wanted well done, we were met with a resistant attitude stating that scrambled eggs cannot be well done because they have cream, we have had scrambled eggs plenty of times before we don’t need an explanation on what’s included!This is how we regularly have our scrambled eggs and have never been told that it is not possible! A very strange approach to customer service and was very awkward. When we were advised that it might not be possible for the cook to make scrambled eggs well done, as an alternative we said we would be fine with well done fried as an alternative. This is literally what we got! 2 fried eggs on a plate, without the rest of the breakfast we originally ordered! The waitress then argued stating that’s what we asked for! Appreciate there is a level of a language barrier but some common sense and a level of customer service needs to apply and both of things were definitely missing! On top of all of this what was served was low quality cheap ingredients. Skip and go elsewhere for...

For our first evening in Agia Anna, we chose a beachfront restaurant that let us dine right on the sand - quite literally with our feet in it! The setting was stunning, just steps from the water, with the kids happily playing nearby while we enjoyed a sunset cocktail.

We started with tzatziki and zucchini balls to go along with our drinks — both fresh, flavorful, and a great pairing.

We innocently gave our main course order at the same time, which meant everything came out just a couple of minutes after the cocktails. Next time, we might pace things a bit differently, but everything was delicious, and the timing didn’t take away from the experience.

The food, the golden light of sunset, the sound of the sea, and the relaxed summer vibe made for a truly memorable first night on Naxos. A lovely spot for a seaside dinner - definitely...