Greek Taverna Artemis — Restaurant in Maidstone

It looks deceptively simple from the outside, like a hole in the wall. The board outside supported this by offering lunch from 8.95£. Once inside we realised because it’s weekend that offer was not applicable. Should have seen that coming. The regular menu was more in the 15-20£ per dish range.

The food was really good though. It tasted fresh and was obviously coming straight off the stove. We took a chicken souvlaki. The grilled chicken was tender and well seasoned. And two sauces on the side - tzadziki and a delicious spicy red one dont recognise. There were some greens on the side topped with a lovely salad sauce.

A vegetarian platter, pretty simple, with an unnecessary giant grilled tomato and grilled pepper andA not very interesting rice. But the hummus, the tzatziki were among the best I ever tasted. Awesome spanakopita as well. Surprisingly no salad with it, and just one olive. But I would order it again.

We ordered pita on the side, since it didn’t come with any of the dishes. For some reason it was fried. Meh. I would not order it again.

We also ordered fries on the side. Totally recommend. Fresh, hot and seasoned with some spice blend.

Last of all there was a lamb kleftiko, which to our surprise was lamb and potatoes in a soupy stew without any rice or bread to soak up stuff. It might have been good but it was not to our palate. The lamb was tender but tasted too smelly, maybe unseasoned is a better word.

So will I go back? For sure. I still need to try that lunch offer. I feel like the wrap and fries...

I went to this lovely restaurant for my 50th last night for the first time and we were blown away. We were seated upstairs next to a great picture of a Greek fishing harbour. The atmosphere was nice and relaxing with Greek music giving a nice holiday feel. It was just me and my husband, I had a lovely Rose Pinot Grigio and my husband had the Greek beer which he thoroughly enjoyed. We both had the feta cheese wrapped in filo pastry with sesame seeds drizzled with honey for starters. It was so lovely. Then we both had the king prawns in garlic and white wine sauce with rice and spinach. It was so amazing and tasty. Then followed by baklava and I had the chocolate fudge cake with cream which could have fed 3 people. Was very nice but too much for me and my hubby. Ended up leaving some but we did our best! We will definitely be back with family...

Disappointing! Our first time at this restaurant. We had a selection of starters including the Calamari rings. A very small portion of halved rings for £8.20. The most disappointing though was the main course, two mixed grills at £22.95 each. The meat was two very small lamb chops, a small meat skewer and half a sausage each. It was made to look big by piling lots of chips underneath the meat, surrounded by dips and sauces. When we complained about the portions of meat, we were given another half sausage each! We hastily got the £93.38 bill, noticing that we had been given a £3.38 discount. We didn’t care about the discount but it felt like a bit of a mickey-take given how much we had paid for two people. We wouldn’t have minded to pay if the main course had...