Yalos — Restaurant in Municipality of Thira

Our family found this gem of a restaurant on the NE coastline. It took us some double checking to make sure we were on the right road to get to it. FYI, if you are driving here it will seem like you are driving thru a local neighborhood before you get to it at the bottom of the hill, next to the small port. The road looks like it wants to curl back to the right, but that is a dead end road to a neighborhood, instead take a hard left thru what barely looks like an entrance to get to the port / restaurant. Overall we give it a 5 our of 5 stars with 5 stars for food & atmosphere while service was 4 stars, because: A) Atmosphere- The place has a rustic / repurposed vibe with rust rebar entrance portals and a rusted out mini van at the entrance. It also has larger couches and seats and almost entire bed like lay down areas to eat and drink. They are also mostly covered for shade. They have bean bag like things on the beach too! B) Food - We had Mini Burgers with Potatoes and the "Chicken". Both were excellently cooked and tasty. Seriously this food was top notch. The drinks were good. C) Service - Initially the hostest was warm and greeting, but after that it was kinda hit or miss with staff. Our server was really preoccupied with her cellphone and after hailing her several times for a check we got no response. So we got up so as to appear to leave and she finally came over. The other staff helping bring us food and drink and to take away our dirty dishes were...

Let's start with the positives. Our server was knowledgeable, helpful, and patient. The entire serving staff was cheerfull and respectful. My server offered me her personal cigarette when i asked if I could buy one. The bartender was friendly and a true professional. The drinks were good and potent. He educated me on the difference between a moscow mule vs Mexican or various other kinds of mules. Moscow Mule 4/5. Pina Margarita 5/5. The ambiance and views were outstanding. Now for the cons. The 1/2 kg (495g) red snapper was all head and had barely any meat. It was grilled with relatively no flavor 1/5. The Angus steak was ok. I asked for medium, it came out well done. Flavor was good but tough 3/5. The shrimp greek salad was good. 4/5. The chicken legs were good. Crispy on the outside, tender on the inside 4/5. Taking all of the details about, this place is way overpriced 16€ for each drink, 36€ for the steak, 45€ for the snapper, 16€ shrimp salad, 16€ for the civiche was about double it would cost anywhere else on the island. If you factor in the taste and quality, then I'd say it's only 1/3 the price. I regular spend 200-300 € for a family of 4 for good food without hesitation. This place is not worth it. I would suggest doing some quality control on the food and expanding your options. You have a great atmosphere and a wonderful staff. I think you business will truly grow x 3 if the food was better in quality at that...

Scam for tourists

Most of the meal was pretty good and they had a DJ playing house music all night, but don’t expect portions like any average restaurant.

We ordered 4 main courses, chicken legs, tagliata beef, sea bream, and lamb filet.

Our lamb was forgotten and we ended up cancelling it, the chicken legs came and looked like scraps from maybe 1.5 legs. The beef couldn’t have been more than 6 oz. The sea bream was the real kicker here, we ordered it as sashimi and we were asked for how many people we were ordering it, to which we responded one person. They then brought us the sea bream and it was one fillet worth and what seemed to be a few more scraps. When the bill came, we noticed they charged us almost 65 euros for the sea bream and when we asked why, they told us since the whole fish was 870 grams, they had to charge us this much. The amount of fish we received was maybe 140 grams max (about 5 oz if even) yet we were told they charged us according to the price of the whole fish.

An absolutely despicable practice by the restaurant, as they only brought us one fillet of the fish yet they charged us for the entire fish which they probably even used for another table’s order.

Needless to say, we all left still hungry yet still spending a ridiculous amount of money. Not recommended for dinner for tourists, only to sit by the ocean and...