YaYa's Euro Bistro

Our food experience here was probably a 5 star average. The appetizers were all very good. We had crab cakes, and some kind of chicken flatbread pizza-type dish. Both were very good, but our favorite was the complementary bread with baba ganoush!

The entrees were all very good. For the price, I would not order the ribeye again. It was cooked perfectly, and had a nice smokey flavor, but overall was not quite as flavorful as other ribeyes I've had. The food here is very pricey in general, and I question it's sustainability in Salina, but I'll hope for the best.

We had to wait about 30 minutes to get into the restaurant, which is fine and normal. After we were seated, it took about 10 minutes for us to even get water. The hostess walked by and had to ask if we had been served, we told her no, so she notified someone. A few minutes later, a manager or floater walked to us and got us our water. A few minutes later after we drank most of our water, our waitress came by and got our order for drinks. The alcoholic drinks took at least another 10 minutes to arrive. We ordered and the food was delivered in what I considered a timely fashion. We then got our checks and put the cards in, and waited and waited and waited until finally someone in our party got up and flagged down another waitress walking by. Our waitress came back and apologized saying she thought someone else got our checks for us. Overall, we were at our table for an hour and fifty minutes, watching multiple people get seated after us, and leave before us (so I take it this is not the average experience).

With the prices of Yaya's, we expect excellent service, which we did not receive, so we will likely not be back, at least for a while.

I do want to say props to the shorter dark haired hostess though, as she stayed very busy, was the first to get things going at our table, and was busy cleaning when I walked to the restroom and out of the restaurant. Thank you!

Overall, I could recommend this place on food quality alone, and hope, and believe, you would get better service.

Update: We went back and the food was great. Our server was EXCELLENT this time. He recommended buttercake for dessert and it became a new favorite. Updated from 3 to 5 stars after this experience!