Apollo Flame Bistro - Hendersonville Rd — Restaurant in Asheville

I wish I could leave 3 1/2 stars. The food was decent. The service was good. However, the prices here have gotten too high. $15.99 for my meal was a bit much. I ordered the Greek meatballs. The menu description said “our meatballs.” They were not homemade. They did not have the homemade look, taste, or consistency. They had the same appearance, texture, and taste as frozen meatballs from the supermarket. I had their meatballs in the past, and they were homemade once upon a time. The salad was a decent size, but was primarily lettuce. The clincher was getting my receipt, and not noticing until later I had a message at the bottom that read “If paid with cash, you could’ve saved $1.47.” That was an additional 4% charge on my total bill, on top of an almost 25% tip. That left a bad impression on me. If you need to charge your customers a fee for paying with a debit or credit card, please post a notice on your menu, and at the register. I found that not posting a notice to your guests about this charge to be sneaky, and underhanded. I believe we should all try to support locally when we can, but frozen meatballs, and hidden charges has left a bad taste in my mouth. I doubt I’ll be back for a long time. I also have a concern, why do the ranch dressing bottles not have a top on them? I would think with all the germs and illnesses in our world, those bottles should have some kind of covering on the top, to help prevent cross...

The food is always great. The problem I ran into today was when I was packing my leftovers into a box. My meal came with a disposable plastic ramekin of tzakziki sauce, which I had not completely finished. As I was packing the to-go box with my salad, chicken, pita bread and was about to put in the DISPOSABLE PLASTIC ramekin, my waitress informed me that she would have to charge me if the ramekin of half eaten sauce goes into my box. When I further inquired as to why in the world I’d be charged to take home my half-eaten sauce, she told me that they are required to charge for any ramekin that goes out the door or it will be taken from her tip (and then pointed out that the owner was standing about 5 feet away). I tried to explain to the waitress that it wasn’t extra sauce, it was the half eaten sauce that came on my plate (which she was well aware of) and the price of it was included in the price of my meal... so why in the world could I not take it home with me?!? This was the most absurd encounter I have ever had at any restaurant with any wait staff. Needless to say she took away the container when she cleared the plates and threw it...

From the moment we sat down, we could tell that the waitress wanted us out. We ordered our sodas and then she stood there expecting us to order without even opening our menu. We got our drink’s and ordered but she couldn’t give any recommendations. We asked for our salads (that are only lettuce, onion, tomato) to come without onion and tomato, which she repeated to us, less than a minute later she was back with our salads WITH onion and tomato. Before we could get the dressing on our salads, she was back with the entrées and finally offered straws for our drinks. Two bites into the entrée, salad still on the table, she shows up and puts the check on our table and asks if we need boxes. After we had eaten half of our food, she came back asking what else we needed and reminded us the check was on the table, boxes in hand. The food was average at best, but service alone was the worst I’ve ever experienced. The one star is based on the food alone. You couldn’t pay me to...