Tinos Greek Cafe — Restaurant in Austin

I wish I wouldv'e taken a picture before having to scrape and microwave my food. So, where to start? Let me start by saying I ordered the Gyro Plate with a side Greek salad, with mixed veggies, rice, and tabouli, the placed the order online and arrived to pick the food up while they were still packing it together (I only live 3 minutes away and arrived early, so this was expected and perfectly fine with me).

For a Greek themed restaurant the first glaring issue is that the standard salad dressing for their GREEK salad is ranch and not Greek dressing. What is worse is that they put the dressing on the salad itself and not on the side, let me note that the website does not indicate that it will be on the salad nor does it give an option to pick the salad dressing. As it was my first time here, I naturally assumed that a GREEK restaurant would default to Greek dressing. My first mistake.

The Gyro meat itself was covered in taziki sauce. My fault again for expecting it to be on the side. The menu online said nothing about the sauce being included on the plate or the meat itself. Nor did if give the option to request no sauce, otherwise I would have.

The most glaring issue though was that my food was COLD. Again, I got there while the food was being packed up and live less than a mile away. As soon as I got home I sat down to eat took a bite of the rice which was ice old and then the veggies, which were also ice cold and unseasoned. At this point I deiced to salvage what I could of the salad, which was only the cucumber and tomatoes and then microwave and season the rest of the food. I understand food will get colder the longer it sits, but this was less than 5 minutes from the plate being packaged and consumed. Plus the lack of actual seasoning and flavor has no excuse. I have eaten at a ton of Mediterranean and Greek restaurants. This by far has been the...

I am familiar with Greek food as I love to eat it and have worked in a fine Greek restaurant. I ordered the Veggie plate, which consists of 4 sides. I chose the Greek Salad, the hummus, the baba gonoush and the veggie moussaka. Every single item was terrible. And I don't say that often. The Greek salad came smothered with Caesar dressing and teeny specs of feta. The veggie moussaka was definitely frozen/canned and mostly canned stewed tomatoes and they lumps that I believe were supposed to be eggplant....I think. I'm not being cute saying I'm not sure what it was. The hummus was very watery and tasted of peanuts....the mark of bad powdered/instant stuff and the baba ganoush was just bland. As I ate, I watched the cashier girl shove her hands in the trash can to flatten it out up to her elbows and proceed to take the pita out of the packaging and literally Frisbee toss it into the oven....I had enough at that point and left. My girlfriend and I can NOT understand these...

I was so excited to eat here because I’ve really been craving good Greek food and this place really disappointed me. The portions are very small for what they’re charging. The baklava was the smallest piece I’ve ever seen and definitely not worth $3.25. The lentil soup was absolutely horrible. There were no lentils and it smelled/tasted horrible. I think they gave me like a leftover batch from a week ago, it tasted old/expired. The rice pilaf is not rice pilaf.. it’s just unseasoned white rice with peas and carrots. The chicken was cold (I live 6 min away from this place) and tasted okay. As I was about to eat the Gyro meat, I found a little piece of like gold foil (in the pictures). I asked for no olives in my salad and they still put them in, not a huge deal, but it’s annoying when places don’t listen.

Will not be eating here again and don’t really recommend anyone eating here. I just really hope I don’t get sick from...