Your Basic Diner
Stick to the basics and you won't go wrong at the Athenian. Their fish has never done me wrong. Spanakopita was less memorable. Lots of families and older people are greeted by name by the waitresses.    [06 Jan 2000 13:18:32]

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Recommended Dishes: broiled fish

     ­Joel Abrams   

It's Okay
My daughter and I have the fish there occasionally, and it is pretty good. I like the fried squid sometimes, and order skordalia to go with it. The Greek dishes are okay but nothing remarkable. I usually end up a bit disappointed with them. The last time I tried the galaktoboureko (which had some other name there), and I was very disappointed.

Last time we were there, the service was dreadful, and it was not the least bit busy, so I don't know what the problem was. That will deter me from going back for a while.    [10 Aug 2001 13:11:56]

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     ­Jean B.   

It's Wonderful if You Want RealL Greek Food, Not Neo-frills
We've eaten the chef-owner's food for decades. He was the cook at the Acropolis for approximately 30 years, a wonderful place that had almost a cult following. When they closed, my husband and I thought we'd never taste those savory dishes again--all the Greek favorites--until rediscovering them at the Athenian. The taramasalata is divine (ask for pita bread with it). Spinach pie, grape leaves in lemon sauce, lamb for the male meatlover...mmmm! Flogera is my favorite dessert. It's supposedly the same as galaktoboureko, but their flogera is much less rich and cloying than the galaktoboureko we've had elsewhere. Flogera tastes like a cross between baklava and flan. The food is the best part, but the owner/hostess is so lovely, it's worth going just to meet her. Today she showed us their kitchen--superbly organized and spotlessly clean. If you live near Lexington on the Arlington line, you're lucky. Our only fault with this place is that it is too far from home. Alas!    [25 Aug 2003 16:01:49]

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Recommended Dishes: Greek specialties, Retsina, Greek beer

     ­Ellen R.   

Not Good
I don't want to sound like a complainer, but this restaurant was one of the worst places I have eaten. The service was bad. The atmosphere was bad. The place was dirty. And the food...oh, the food...tasteless - the rice prepared in the microwave, and the chicken undone. The owner's son also told me to be quiet; I was too loud for their taste.

And they charge for refills, $2 a pop.    [13 Nov 2004 10:14:41]

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     ­Charles