Synantisi - GiannelosTavern — Restaurant in Municipality of Samothraki

Whilst I have no doubt that the food here could have been good, it was massively understaffed around lunch, with just two waiters trying to cover both indoors and outdoors for a restaurant sitting maybe 30-40 people. As a result, since I was alone, and so looked like a less interesting customer, I ended up being sat there for 15 minutes and ignored. After some insistence I was brought a menu. Then I was ignored some more. Meanwhile, a table of locals 3 metres from me, with 5 people on it, instantly got served water and bread.

I realise this is probably because they were understaffed. It’s probably a good restaurant when there is staff there and/or if you look more appetising as a customer. However, I was hungry, I just wanted to order and eat something, and I was ignored for 15 minutes. That’s awful service, and earns the single star in my opinion. I eventually got up and left....

We ate here last year and we loved it, this year was different. The greek salad had green tomatoes, the fried zucchini’s were either too thin and burnt or too thick and raw, the fish was good but I asked for a smaller fish just for me, I noticed that they talked about it in greek, but they didn’t say anything… they brought a huge fish for 3 persons. My fault, maybe I should’ve said something, but I don’t like saliva in my food. Also the waiter seemed that he didn’t like his job. He brought the food and handed it to you, while eating rather then putting in on the table, there was space… Nevertheless something was off this year. We payed 60+€ , 36...

Visited both in and out of season. The food is what you'd expect of a local port tavern, without any brash personal touches. I did notice slight variations in the general attention paid to detail (and wine quality, to be perfectly honest) between the two visits, but nothing really off-putting. Drop by, if you can't leave the port area for more adventurous eating on Samothraki. Personal favourite - the...