Opa Grille — Restaurant in Town of Oyster Bay

If you want FROZEN soggy, sinewy strings hanging calamari you can find it at OPA Grille in Bethpage along with hard as a rock canned stuffed grape leaf. As an international chef who eats a Mediterranean diet daily, I was so looking forward to their lunch special but was enormously disappointed. As good as it was a few weeks ago when I ordered pasticchio and another time moussaka and garlic spinach, it’s obvious the owner is not using FRESH ingredients but getting OLD hard product and poor quality UNAUTHENTIC calamari which neither is expensive to buy fresh and delicious. Perhaps he’s saving on a real chef in the kitchen too with a line cook who only knows how to fry things, not making them truly Greek from scratch. Every Greek restaurant always makes Fried calamari with flour. When I asked the waitress about the calamari BEFORE ordering if it was coated with flour and nothing else, it was NOT TRUE. Owner is trying to shorten the preparation time by buying READY-MADE INFERIOR items thinking he’ll FOOL the customers but he’s only fooling himself because he’s doing away with all customers. They’re not stupid and know the DRASTIC difference between fresh , homemade, and CRAP! Never heard of dolmates being hard and my favorite brand of canned is Santorini due to its SOFTNESS and lemony sauce in the can- NEVER in a million years was this Santorini brand. The waitress told him to hold up the can to show it to me— you guessed it, he didn’t! Hard as a BONE or brick is definitely NOT Santorini brand’s texture or quality or taste because It’s MY personal favorite, I guess OPA’’s owner is writing a book on how to RUIN a restaurant overnight!!! Last time I ate there, every table was occupied, but not so today. Do you wonder...

While we have been to Opa Grill, the one in New Hyde Park a number of times and the food was always good. Being Greek it's nice to have a place go to, since my YaiYai has passed. I had to write about dinner last night. I had ordered one of the specials Scallops and Shrimp with crabmeat. As I ate the first Scallop the taste was off, so I tried the second one and the taste really wasn't good at all, took a piece of the 3rd one and I couldn't eat it. Had my husband try it and said it was off. Whether it was the Scallop or the seasoning, its what happened next that appalled me. I told the waitress about the food and she asked if it was fishy and I said yes, but it tasted off. She asked if I would like something else and I got an app. I'm facing the bar so I could see everything. She told the manager, who by the way never came over once to say anything. Then 5 minutes later the manager comes out with a plate of Scallops sets it on the bar for all the employees to try! Really!! Still he didn't come over. I then said to the waitress, I did see you tried the Scallops and she said yes because they did come in fresh today. So be that as it may, as a chef myself that display should have be done in the kitchen NOT in front of the customer! Even as we got up to leave he didn't ask how was everything was, like he did to the people who left right before us. The whole thing was distasteful! We won't...

This place has the worst customer service ever, and that older lady, omg she is just nasty, I don't know if she is a racist, prejudiced, or just doesn't care. But She is not welcoming nor inviting, She looks ominous.. you have a restaurant fell with kids (4 or 5) at the host desk waiting to take your money but once you sit at a table, you wait over 45mins for your table to clear, that's when ur getting dinner. this place really needs to be cleaned up and organized, i dont know if she is the manager or the owner's wife, but she should stay in the back. About a month ago, I went in to have an early dinner before an event, and i had to get up and walk out because i was sitting there, and no one was attending to us.. we was the second table to walk in and eveyone else was getting their food and we just sit obsessed waiting patiently I before i got up and leave, the moment i ask about our food that we've been waiting for a 1hr she quickly said its not her fault and dismissed us, we order atleast 2 times per week from Bethpage...