Vrisaki

From the outside you would just walk straight past this place and pass it off as just another kebab shop off Green Lanes.......But don't be fooled by the exterior!

You have to walk through the take out bit to actually get in the restaurant but once inside its a very authentic looking greek restaurant.

There were 9 of us for meze and 2 eating from the menu. The food was absolutely fantastic. The meze was varied but make sure you like fish as there were 2 fish courses. Just when you think they cant possibly be bringing more food out for you ....they do!

Came to about £30 a head that includes the service charge and drinks. Definate value for money as most of us were drinking wine or Beer.

My only slight critisism which i hate to do as we had such a good night is that they only do 1 vegetarian dish. We did have a vegetarian with us and he said his dish was lovely.

All in all a great place to eat if you want a nice friendly evening with good atmosphere and value for money.
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Carli (London)
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Food 9 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 10
Tuesday, June 03, 2008

I went with 5 PCSO's, wardens, and garage hands on a Saturday and had a mixed experience and it was my birthday. The waiters greeted us but refused to take our wet coats except the ladies and these were thrown in a corner and we were told to put ours over the back of chairs which upset other diners as it is quite cramped.

We asked for a wine list and despite trying to orde a French wine, the elderly waiter kept pointing to the Cypriot wines saying 'these are the best Cypriot wines in the world' . We tried to order tap water but another waiter bought up four big bottles of bottled water at about £3 a bottle. When we said we wanted tap he said that if we want tap 'there is a tap in the toilet'. This terrible start shook us and things got a little worse before they got alot better.

One of our female friend got up to go to the loo and as we were crammed in accidently knocked over a bottle of red wine oon the next table which soaked a ladies white dress.

Things started to get alot better and we all had the Meze which was excellent but we did not realise after eating all the initial things that meat was to come and as we were by now full we took the meat home in doggy bags. e did have a sweet of rice pudding 'ricogalo' and a greek coffee which frankly tasted of mud! Overall and even with our initial upset I would give it 9 out of 10
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Inspector Jonathan Clinch
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Food 9 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 9
Sunday, June 01, 2008

My husband heard about this place from work colleagues and wanted to try it. We booked on a Wednesday night, which is the only thing I can think of that might explain the difference in service and food between us and the disgruntled customers on a weekend.

Our two waiters were both friendly and attentive. The food was delicious, although we didn't go for the meze like most of the negative reviewers. I had kalimari, Greek salad which was included with a lamb dish I can't remember the name of, and Greek coffee. Hubby had a cheese starter and moussaka with salad. We split a bottle of red.

We'll most definitely return.
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Irina Feeney
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Food 8 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 8 | Value for money 9
Friday, May 30, 2008

We visited Vrisaki on Friday, 2 had their fabulous meze, 1 had the lamb cutlets and 1 had a very large succulent T-bone steak that we helped him finish off. The food was up to their usually high standard, clean, tasty, varied and plentiful, the waiters very friendly and the bill was more than reasonable. We have been going there for the last 27 years and, even after trying out lots of other local restaurants, Vrisaki remains our firm favourite. Highly recommended - if you manage to get a table! Book in advance.
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Christine
Overall rating
Food 9 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 8 | Value for money 9
Monday, December 17, 2007

Went here last weekend after about a 2 year gap from the last time I went to Vrisakis.

I remember it being a lot better than what I experienced last weekend.

We booked from 7pm to 9pm (We were told this would be our seating slot)

The food was OK. Nothing great, but no Kebab in the Meze.

We were served by two waiters, one was very happy and helpful, the other was the complete opposite, a complete grump. At 9pm, we were aware of the time and asked if we had time for another drink, Happy waiter said yes and brought us our Beers. At 9.05pm Grumpy came over and asked us to leave as the 9pm slot people were waiting, beers half drunk, we paid and left.

Think I will leave it for another 2 years before going back.
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Joe
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Food 6 | Service 6 | Atmosphere 5 | Value for money 5
Thursday, December 13, 2007

Overated Greek Restaurant living on its past merits.

If things dont change I can see it going down hill fast
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Mario
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Food 7 | Service 6 | Atmosphere 7 | Value for money 6
Thursday, November 08, 2007

Very nice food, good value. The meze is great value and the fruit at the end is lovely. good service and we will go back
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Micky Maddams - View all reviews by this user
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Food 8 | Service 7 | Atmosphere 7 | Value for money 8
Saturday, November 03, 2007

If you are looking for greek meze, u can't really fault Vrisaki. The food is amazin.

However, I do think Molo restaurant food is just as good. Also with Molo, you are not rushed to finish (Vrisaki tends to do this as they try to fit as many bookings as they can in 1 night). Another thing with Vrisaki is they just serve way too much food in the meze to the point where u feel sick and just cannot fit anything else in!

Molo is about the same price and the food is perfect and just the right amount.

So overall, I think you do need to experience Vrisaki at least once but would definetly pick Molo over this anytime!
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Overall rating
Food 8 | Service 4 | Atmosphere 6 | Value for money 6
Friday, October 05, 2007

Recently i had been to Vrisaki on a Saturday. It was one of the worst greek resturants i have been to! Even though the waiters were bad the food was very nice especially the sheftalies! There was a waitress which made me feel very uncomftable with her looks being decieving and her quality of waiting was 0. In addition there are many old waiters making the service slow and the atmosphere boring yet again the bar man was the only one reaching the standards of work needing to be done as he did not stop.
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Elena Georgiou
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Food 7 | Service 1 | Atmosphere 1 | Value for money 5
Tuesday, October 02, 2007

I've been to Vrissaki today and I think that everything was very expensive! We order Greek Meze and I we hardly had any meat! You have to be aware that if you go on Saturdays there are two sittings. They are forcing you to leave because they already booked your table to someone else! If you would like to go at 7 o clock and leave at 10 forget it! The strange thing is that they are so honest and they tell you that you have to leave as someone else is waiting in order to take your table! I also think that it is very expensive for the quantity and quality of food that they offering you.
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eleni georgiou
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Food 5 | Service 1 | Atmosphere 5 | Value for money 5
Saturday, September 22, 2007