Pat's Place — Restaurant in Melbourne

Pat's Place - Melbourne Beachside - 1 Star. Fraud by any other name is.......well......fraud. There is no reason to engage in disingenuous behavior when you can only fool some of the people all of the time. I stopped here to get some "authentic" Greek food. I truly love Greek food. In fact there are two real Greeks within 2 miles of Pat's. Sadly, this Pat is named Patricia or who even knows because the fetid stench of her lies is layered so deep, I think she may have even lied about that. I asked about the gyro. She said it was fresh cut. I said if so, where is the spit? She replied, well the health department frowns on them, so she cuts it in the back to order. I immediately felt red flags in my stomach but I figured hey, it will be blatantly obvious if she is lying. She went on and on about how fresh her food is. I decided to add an order of "home cooked" Spanakopita. When the food arrived I tasted the spanakopita. It was flaccid, refrigerator burned spinach that tasted so bad I had to spit it out. It seemed like it had been sitting in the fridge for weeks and I was the fly finally caught in the spider's web. Now, for the big moment. I bit into the gyro and knew Pat was a liar. You can see from the attached photo, this gyro meat is the frozen pre-cut slices sold by Sysco and Cheney Brothers. To my surprise, when confronted with the discrepancy, Pat began a tale I have heard from many a sociopath. Ohhhhh I am not lying, it's you who is mistaken. This was a low rent version of the cook up the street who tried to convince me a sirloin breakfast steak was filet. The difference is, instead of threatening to kill me, "Pat" took the manipulative approach. Far be it from me, I went to two different Greek restaurants and showed them the photo. At the first restaurant the owner chuckled when I showed him the photo. He said that's frozen strips of gyro. He asked where I got it. I refused to tell him. The same line ended the same at the second restaurant, except that there was an owner of a third restaurant who also confirmed the pre-frozen, pre-sliced nature of the gyro. So the Big Boy says avoid the lying liar at Pats and go to an authentic Greek restaurant if you want real gyro because the food here in my humble opinion...

Delicious. Small mom and pop place we stopped at while vacationing at beach. Was about a mile from ocean so within walking distance from our hotel. Sign above simply said "PIZZA". Friendly and good service. Had the Mediterranean combo and a cheese pizza . Spinach pie seemed OK but I wont to be a good judge of that because I'm not a huge fan of spinach. The meat slices were absolutely incredible which I believe are the ones for The gyros. Everything in the salad seemed fresh unlike many restaurants salads I've received from places in the past. I stopped by on a weekday afternoon and they were fairly slow. Instead of using other promotions they might consider Advertising some sort of small discount during times they're not...

Pat’s place is tucked away in the Ross Plaza, and is such a hidden gem. Their subs are amazing, and huge. My favorite is their Italian. Definitely wait the extra few minutes to get them toasted.

My wife ordered a small Greek Salad, and it was loaded. It reminded me of the old school way, that legit mom and pop restaurants would make their Greek Salads.

The staff looks burly, and tough, but you can tell it’s their business, and that they care about it by the way they treat their customers. Another good sign was the fact that, it was loaded with lunch time patrons.

I definitely can’t rave enough about this place, and highly...