Restaurante Griego Kalamitsi — Restaurant in Alicante

Poor experience and not recommended. Had dinner on this restaurant with my friend, and had high expectations, but I really can't say I'm impressed. I'm half Greek and have a LOT of experience with the Greek kitchen. The restaurant itself looks good and is located in a pulsating street with other restaurants. But from here it all went downwards. As a starter we ordered a plate with different starters, and here came the first disappointment. The pita bread was bought and ready made product and was not home made in the restaurant. All Greek restaurants with self respect should produce their own pita bread fried in a pan. Period. The horiatiki salad was also a disappointment. I have never ever tasted a dry Greek salad before! Believe it or not, they served the horiatiki with olive oil and vinegar in small box portions on the side. This salad has NOTHING to do with Greek traditions to do! A Greek salad shall and must contain olive oil and a delicious vinegar! What it also should contain is good, real and genuine feta cheese. But no.... On this restaurant they use small dice shaped feta cheese that almost has nothing to do with the real feta to do. As a half Greek, i think this is scandalous! Greek food deserve real feta based on goat milk and not the copy made on cow milk! Period! Further on we ordered the main courses, a plate with lamb souvlaki and a plate with sutzukakia. Again a big disappointment... The souvlaki was hardly cooked at all, and almost like chewing gum, and the sutzukakia didn't taste Greek at all but just like any other meatball. And another thing that we both commented during the meal.... Almost everything was stuffed with a salty flavor. And that's a bad sign. This is a well known trick to try to get the food to taste better. I must say I really can't understand how someone can give this restaurant 4 and 5 stars in rating. We also noted another thing.... While we had our meal, we heard the microwave oven beeping from the kitchen. Apparently they just heat up a lot of food and not preparing it as they should. The most easy way there is. The only thing is that food heated in a microwave ends up being tasteless food. If someone really think this restaurant have homemade Greek food, then you obviously have no experience with the Greek kitchen. Sorry for the bad review guys. 1 out of 5 stars is all I...

The absolute worst Greek restaurant we have ever ever been to. I was reading the reviews here that's why we went here. First of all the waiter wasn't too friendly, we wanted to sit at the window, but he ordered us to sit at the table just in front of the bar where the kitchen is. Very uncomfortable and noisy. Also it was full of screaming children but that's not the restaurant's fault. We had to wait 1 hour and 20 minutes for our food but on a Sunday afternoon we could understand that. The biggest disappointment was the food. Don't expect this to be an authentic Greek restaurant with fresh pieces of meat from the grill like Suzuki, Souvlaki or Greek Gyros. The Souvlaki, which is my favourite, was just chicken on a stick cutted in a few little blocks. It says it's a main course but it's actually just a tapa. The zaziki was the only side dish that was good. My partners vegetarian dish was really salty and dry. The starters are just simple tapas you could order at any Spanish bar. For example the gambas with cheese (there was no cheese) were tasteless and very small portioned. We were thinking to try a desert as we saw them passing by on the plates, because they actually looked good, but we didn't want to wait another hour just to get a desert. We were really looking forward to eat here because of the good reviews but what a big disappointment. My advice would be, don't go here you will...

At first we got excited thinking we’ll have a authentic Greek meal with Greek hospitality. However the food was nice it’s true however the waiter that served us ( big guy going bald) was not only rude- it almost felt like he hated us… he did not comment when we placed the orders- didn’t confirm or repeat our requests - he simply hated being there! While we thought he might just be a character like that- when answering the restaurant phone he didn’t manage to smile through that rude face of his. So therefore such an experience gets ZERO stars. We must admit that the blond haired waiter was so friendly and when he assisted in the orders it honestly made us continue our meal - otherwise we were ready to move!! Owners if this is your waiter - get him trained or get him out he’s ruining your...