Traganou Taverna — Restaurant in Municipality of Rhodes

1 HOUR AND A HALF WAITING FOR A PLATE! WORST PLACE IN ALL RHODES - 0 STARS We sat down for lunch, since it was the only restaurant available on the beach. We were 2 people, ordered 1 Greek salad, 1 fish plate and 1 chicken souvlaki. My boyfriend got the food about 20 minutes in, but I didn’t get my souvlaki, of course I waited since they were pretty busy. After 40 minutes I asked if my food was being prepared, to which they answered it was. After another 20 minutes I asked again seeing that I haven’t received my food yet. They told me that it would take about 25 minutes for the chicken to be ready, I waited again and after another 30 minutes I asked again about my order, to which they didn’t know how to reply. Basically they forgot to put in my order and only started preparing it after I asked the third time.. My boyfriend ate alone and I was seeing all the people that sat after me getting served, eat and leave, while I was STILL WAITING on my order. At that point I said I didn’t want the food anymore, as I waited for 1 hour and a half. Right away they got my souvlaki ready, and served me. I only ate half the meat and didn’t eat the rice or potatoes. When I went to pay, I asked if we could split the souvlaki price 50% because I waited 1 hour and a half and the answer was “NOT MY PROBLEM” at that point I was pretty upset and told them that I shouldn’t pay for a plate I have waited so long for and barely touched. The whole staff came out yelling that if I even ate a little bit I should pay full price, again reiterating it wasn’t their problem.

I HATED THIS PLACE. WORST EXPERIENCE EVER IN ALL RHODES. Please stay away from this decaying business and...

Firstly, chocolate milkshake was rancid. I couldn’t drink it.

Service was just awful- sassy male waiter roughly gestured to the restaurant when we asked for a table for four, and it took them ages to bring us menus. All the staff seemed inconvenienced by the idea of customers (don’t open a restaurant if you hate customers). In general there was a very unsettling atmosphere sue to the staff.

Two of us ordered calamari and the tomato and cucumber salad. The calamari main was undercooked and was €14 for about 7 pieces (didn’t come with chips). The cucumber and tomato “salad” was just roughly chopped tomato and cucumber washed in the sink and put on a plate. we had practically finished both our food before our other friend had gotten her souvlaki. The other friend couldn’t eat hers because it was so disgusting (aubergine starter).

The prices were extortionate for the absolute slop that was served to us.

In conclusion, don’t come to this mess of a restaurant, bring your own food...

So the view and setting of the restaurant is great. However it fails on some levels. For example, me and my brother both ordered the chicken souvlaki. It comes with rice, fries, the souvlaki and a couple pieces of lime. The food was okay at best, it was quite dry without any sauce. Furthermore the service was very slow. One would think that this place being located right next to the beach would expect a lot of visitors. Even so the place felt understaffed and overworked. We were forgotten at least 3 times. When we first got there we had to ask for menus and then it took at least 10-15 minutes before the came to ask what we would like. When we ordered the food it arrived maybe 30-45 minutes later. And when we were going to pay I took it upon myself to ask for the bill and even pointed to the table I sat at. Even when telling them this it has been as I’m writing this...