Kellari Taverna — Restaurant in New York

I am truly appalled by my experience at this restaurant. Me and 4 of my girlfriends went out last night to celebrate one of our friend’s 26th birthday. Immediately after being seated, they asked to see IDs from everyone in the group. We don’t have a problem with this, we willingly game them over. The problem was the treatment afterwards. After we showed our IDs, slightly baffled that we were being asked this at the age of 26 but not too bothered, they grudgingly looked at each of them and handed them back to us. The service from then until the end of the night was truly horrendous. We are 4 working women, some in medical school, some working corporate jobs, being treated like we were a group of 20 year olds with fake IDs. The waitress serving us was condescending and rude, whispering to every other waiter and to her manager, and staring at us. We would ask her a simple question about food, drinks, etc… and she would give us a short, rude response, as if we were deeply bothering her. We were paying customers- buying food, drinks, dessert. I do not recommend this place to any group under the age of 30. The crowd is older, and anyone who is not in that age bracket will have quite a horrible experience. On top of that, we have so many other friends in our age group who would have gone and gave them business in the future if we had liked it- word of mouth is important- and sadly, this is off many people’s lists because of our experience. If you don’t make your restaurant appealing to the youth or people in their mid to late 20s, you will not have a successful business. Just pure disrespect to paying customers. Don’t go to this place if you don’t want to feel like an incompetent, disrespected customer. There is a way to act and conduct yourself as a “high-end” restaurant in New York City, and this place stands for the exact opposite- embarrassing for...

Pros: Staff was friendly Lamb chops cooked to right temperature throughout every lamb chop. For some reason places struggle to get it consistent. Octopus tender and not rubbery Atmosphere and ambiance was pretty nice Food and plating looked beautiful

Cons: Never in my life have I had an avgolemono soup with such little flavor. It's listed as chicken egg drop soup. Traditionally there's a bunch of lemon in it, but not here. While that isn't a major problem the soup had no seasoning. Was incredibly bland. Almost all of the food ordered was under seasoned or had no seasoning whatsoever. Salt? Not at this restaurant. It's also a sign when the salt shaker at the table is empty. It's like every other guest thought the same thing. I probably am dumb to assume that when I order a Greek dish and pronounce it correctly (soutzoukakia) that I'm not going to get the dish I wanted. Ordered the lamb meatballs but got fried zucchini (zucchini kefte). I said it in the traditional Greek way but should've said it in plain English. The fried zucchini wasn't terrible and I'm not awfully mad, but if the staff isn't sure what someone says when ordering they should probably verify it. My knifes tip was missing. Not that it can't cut without the tip, but feels lazy to keep broken silverware at a restaurant. Maybe at home that's normal but not when you're at a dining experience.

Final remarks; Atmosphere is nice but food utterly bland. Maybe this is just a style of Greek cuisine, but being Greek I expect a little bit of salt. Probably a better choice to buy a hotdog down the street or BYOS (bring...

I checked out NYC website to make sure this place offers a Sunday Brunch/Lunch for Restaurant Week Menu and also called the restaurant to confirm.

I made a reservation on Sunday at 11:30 am. Woman welcomed us and all of sudden the phone rang and she picked up. She lowered her voice and talking to this person on the phone, instructed to do something and she repeated " what? Give them a different menu slip? Where is it?" In front her, there were actual menu and  "Restaurant Week Menu"  but she gave us regular menu and other "dinner menu"instead. And that dinner menu set cost over $65++ per person compares to $30 per person for Restaurant Week Menu.

I asked our waiter if there are any restaurant week menu and he said "No, not on the weekends!" So I told him, "Oh, I actually came to try out Restaurant Week Menu, and I saw on the NYC website shows that your restaurant is  participating for Sunday Brunch/Lunch. He says "No, not on the Sunday"

Well, I didn't want to make a big deal, so I ordered a regular meal.

5 minutes later, I noticed that this hostess, same woman were giving out Regular Menu book and "Restaurant Week " Menu to other customers. So I asked this woman,  if there was a  different menu for Restaurant Week? She says " oh did I give you a dinner menu?" I specifically asked our waiter if there's any Restaurant Week menu and he clearly said, No.

I lived in this area for more than 10 years. She might have thought that we were a tourist and tried to sell expensive menus. I felt discriminated based on our appearance,  race,  or whatever it was....