Greekman's — Restaurant in Los Angeles

Everything was super salty; we had the fried zucchini, grilled branzino, chicken souvlaki, and the sauteed spinach.

The zucchini, chicken, and branzino were decent, just too salty. We had to slather the chicken in yogurt to reduce the tremendous saltines.

The spinach was like licking a lemon forgotten in the back of the fridge served with half a can of salt. Way overcooked, sour, and salty. We might as well have been served a lemon-y glass of water from the Aegean Sea.

This was definitely the worst tasting Greek restaurant I've had in LA. Plus the prices don't reflect the insultingly small portion sizes. Our waitress recommended we get 6 dishes for 2 people. If we'd gone with her suggestion, our total would be around $120 (beware the automatic 4% service fee). Save your money and go somewhere else. There are plenty of reasonably priced, delicious Greek options in LA.

EDIT: I pass by the restaurant every day for work at 7PM and it's always empty. All the 5 star reviews are either...

The food quality is fine as in everything is edible but the portions are for ants - so small! So stingy on the portion sizes, not at all like what a real Greek restaurant would have. See pic for how big the hummus is.

The Greek salad was half a tomato, half a cucumber, and 3 ounces of cheese. And it cost $16 (not including the 18% automatic gratuity).

There is a 18% gratuity included but it is not a tip. However the staff aren’t really working for tips there. Slow and combative. They’ve tried communism in other countries and it didn’t work… why should it at Greekman’s

This place feels like the manager is a freshly minted MBA who ran some analytics on the menu to min/max profit margins. However, doesn’t seem like this manager went to Harvard Business School. More like clown college. The manager doesn’t realize that you can only have profits if you have customers, and the way to keeping customers is not through stinginess and shrinkflation.

Tasty...

The food was quite tasty and high quality, though the dip portions on the souvlaki “party” were almost insultingly small (given they’re the cheapest items in the dish). The service was nice, knowledgeable, and consistent. The white wine bottle was lovely. I would sit inside instead of in the patio, and the inside is beautiful, while the patio was decorated nicely, but inescapably reminds you that you’re technically eating in the parking lot. My only main gripe is the 18% service charge that explicitly states that it’s not inclusive of gratuity. This says, in a somehow unspoken manner, that there’s an expectation that you’ll be parting with at least an additional 30% of the cost of the meal, not forgetting the 10%...