This is going to be a rough review. If you think it’s biased or unfair, feel free to read my other reviews. I’m not a sand bagger.

We dined here today for a late lunch, picking El Greco based on its many positive reviews and 4.5 star average.

I ordered the Old Fashioned Pork Gyro Platter. It was good, but not great. The meat was cooked nicely and there was a lot of it, although it was under spiced to the point of borderline blandness.

My lunch partner ordered the beef platter, and was told they were out. The cook offered to substitute lamb chops instead, to which he said okay.

What arrived on the table was a disgrace to lambs, sheep, Greek people everywhere, and perhaps the entire human race. The lamb “chops” were about 5/16 inch thick (we measured) and over cooked to the point of charring. Not just well done - they were well and truly burnt. Hard burnt. Cremated.

My lunch partner was so mad he got up and left, later explaining that he “didn’t want to ruin the nice 3 generation family’s meal sitting right beside us by throwing the plate at the cook”.

I stayed, and the waiter asked about the meal. I pointed at it and said “the lamb is completely burnt”. I then picked up a rib bone (which was obviously not a whole bone, because it had been filleted down to the aforementioned thickness) and I snapped it in half with four fingers and very little effort. I showed the waiter the center of the that bone, and it was burnt all the way thru.

Lamb bones shouldn’t be that way.

The waiter said it was “obviously burnt” and that he’d talk to the mgr. He came back ten l o n g minutes later to say that the restaurant was going to do nothing because “he ate all his food” (not remotely true) and “he left”.

Further consideration by my dining partner yielded the following quotes:

“The worst meal I’ve had in years”. “I’m never eating Greek food again” “The worst $50 investment ever” “And to think an animal died for that!”