Foodies Restaurant & Grill — Restaurant in Russellville

Foodies is Russellville’s ethnic food option. Such as it is, offering an exotic escape from barbecue, burritos or fried chicken. The area is a Mediterranean food desert. No other options for miles in any direction.

Unfortunately, I found it to be a disappointing example of Greek food. The hummus had a good garlicky flavor, but was a little dry, coarse and grainy. Not smooth and creamy as is preferred. A good splash of olive oil would have helped. I had the beef Shish Kebabs, described as tender steak filet. It was most likely sirloin. I expelled several pieces of unchewable gristle. The slices of squash were dry and stale. The rice was mediocre. The tzatziki was a thick tasteless Greek yogurt lacking any flavor of cucumber, garlic, lemon or olive oil. A boring platter of food not justifying the $16 cost.

My wife had a lamb gyro with fries. It was a good serving of gyro meat with a small amount of the lame tzatziki. Fresh cut fries filled the plate of food. Nothing spectacular.

Burgers may be your best bet here, but if you are wanting to sample the closest thing to Greek food in Russellville, order the lamb gyro. The service was adequate.

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Went here a couple days ago with my girlfriend while in town at the recommendation of a friend.

I am vegan and I've had countless good experiences at Mediterranean places so I ordered the same thing I do everywhere: a falafel gyro with no tzatziki sauce and no feta add hummus. She attempted to repeat back my order but immediately said "no falafel" which I immediately corrected but evidently was not understood. Initially I was brought a pita with literally just vegetables and tzatziki sauce. I requested it be made the way I asked initially (I tried to go through my order again) and without even making sure she had my order right she immediately took it back and brought me back a pita with just vegetables and some hummus on the side. I then flag her down for the 3rd time to explain that I do indeed want falafel on my falafel gyro. 20 minutes later I'm brought out the scraps and crispy bits of what once may have been an entire falafel on a plate to put on my now stone cold pita. My girlfriend pays for hers and I refuse to pay for mine to which the server responded by not letting my girlfriend tip despite us insisting as it was obvious they just wanted us to leave.

By far the worst experience I've ever had in a restaurant. If you are vegan steer clear...

I read the reviews and was excited to try Foodies. I was greeted by a very bubbly young lady who promptly seated me and brought me a drink. I ordered the spicy three meat gyro with chicken, steak,bacon,shredded cheese,cucumber, jalapeno,lettuce and tomato with chipotle sauce. I got dry chicken a small amount of steak couldn't really see any bacon and none of the aforementioned toppings. Had it not been for the really sweet girls I would have given Foodies a 1 star for the food. I NEVER give 1 star reviews unless the place is overwhelming awful. As you can see by the photo there is nothing but dried up meat, no sauce, no nothing at all. Sadly I came here on here on purpose. The young lady that checked me out offered me a free appetizer I declined because I won't be back based on on my experience today.

The owners response seems to downplay the lackluster attitude of the cook. Exactly correct this isn't what an even decent meal. Actually it was abysmally not good. I don't care about the supposed fresh made stuff. My meal was awful. Your cook walked around as if he really didn't care. What exactly was the dish ? A bunch of dried protein and a pita with zero...