Nick The Greek — Restaurant in Newport Beach

Super disappointingly-prepared food and will not order from here again. Simple classics were completely butchered in their flavors and textures.

I had the beef/lamb gyro plate with an add-on of chicken souvlaki skewer. I preemptively ordered additional sides of Tzatziki and Spicy Tzatziki… thinking it’s hard to mess those up.

Let’s start with the chicken. I’ve never had a chicken souvlaki skewer that used dark meat/thigh meat, rather than the even texture of breast meat. This skewer was all dark meat, rubbery, intermixed with mostly cartilage, and flavorless. Zero seasoning or marinade of any kind.

The lamb/beef gyro…. GAH!! So salty!!! And dry!! My apologies for the grotesque imagery… but the texture and shaved appearance of the meat were reminiscent of the excess skin that gets shaven off one’s heel during a pedicure. Neither are appetizing in the slightest.

The sauces… oh man. There is something fundamentally wrong with the yogurt base they use. Instead of a nice classic, fresh, yogurt taste, this one wasn’t just tart- it had a weird musty/dirty laundry scent about it that made it impossible to eat. There were zero refreshing qualities like dill, cucumber, etc, that would typically balance out any weird yogurt characteristics. The “spicy” tzatziki is a joke… it’s the normal tzatziki with a slight speckle of paprika or some other red spice on top of the dollop in the sauce container.

The only redeeming quality in this whole meal was the freshness of the salad. Great cucumbers and...

Worst “Greek food” I have ever eaten.

The Beef/Lamb Gyro Pita had a miniscule amount of meat. They put FRIES on it… WTAF??? If I want fries, I’ll go to McDonald’s. The onions were rotten. The whole thing was luke warm and tasted like salmonella served up in a pita.

The “Greek Salad” had no lettuce. It was mostly rotten tomatoes including the butts and stems along with rotten onions. I asked for no bell pepper. It came with bell pepper. The kalamata olives were mushy, like they have been sitting around since the days of Hercules. It was so foul, I couldn’t eat it.

On top of all this, their prices are outrageous.

I didn’t have time or energy to ask for a refund or new food. So, I just put it in the appropriate rubbish bin and ordered from a different restaurant.

Don’t waste your time with this...

I was in this restaurant 10/29/22 around 7:30pm. Ordered 3 kinds of dishes, one of them was not fit for consumption, it was pork gyro. The fact is that the meat that was in the gyro was completely dried up, as if it were jerks. There were also large chunks of fat. Usually this meat is cut a very long time ago and has lain down for several hours. and also the onion was cut so large that only the taste of onion was in the mouth. It was impossible to eat this sandwich. Spoiled dish. They poured into it what needed to be thrown out. If the owner of the restaurant wants to contact me, I can send him a photo with proof. Other 2 dishes was okay probably because there was different...