Takis' Taverna - Vancouver

Lovely! Fast and friendly service, great food, very fresh.

AMAZING FOOD AND ATMOSPHERE!!! Delicious mezethes and saganaki :

While most other restaurants were packed on a Saturday night, we easily got reservations on OpenTable. When we arrived at the restaurant the place had only three tables occupied. One was a group of 10 celebrating a birthday. There were two wait staff and one was slowly decorating a Christmas tree at the door. When we walked in she looked at us and did not come to great us. She waited for the other waitress to seat us. Bizarre. Things went further downhill from there. This one nice waitress was running around serving all tables and taking care of delivery driver orders while the other waitress just continued to slowly decorate the tree in the middle of dinner service. I commend the one waitress for doing her best. We ordered the calamari deep fried, the shrimp souvlaki dinner and the lamb shoulder. Pita bread was one of the highlights. Pillowy soft and warm. Calamari was the highlight. Flavourful and crisp with a great tsitziki. Entrees were well portioned, but not great. Potatoes were undercooked, rice was lukewarm and the lamb although was tender was also lukewarm and lacked depth of flavour. Prices were reasonable so I will give them that. If you are hungry and in need of a decent portion this is good. But we were expecting better.

Great food and service!! Will definitely dine again.

We ordered the Greek platter. The dolmades, spanakopita, and chicken souvlaki were good. The mousaka was dry with lumpy bechamel sauce. The Greek potatoes were a disappointment not really Greek tasting and boring. The vegetables were a joke. Huge roughly cut carrots that tasted like they were just boiled. The Greek salad was mostly cucumber and the feta cheese was dried out. The dressing had no flavor. The tzatziki was okay. I have recipes for mousaka, Greek carrots, Greek potatoes, Greek salad, and tzatziki that are all far better than what we got here. Overall, it was a disappointment. The service and the ambiance were good.