Pride of the Mediterranean

by Emily W.

Yowzers!For starters: the waitress was harsh. Kept cursing for no apparent reason. She forgot our orders...then completely left the restaurant right after we ordered our food. ??!!My food was burnt! Someone else had unexplainable crunchy inedible bits in her lamb so loud it was heard across the table. It's kinda pricey considering. We did get some good laughs out of the extent of the badness, I must admit.

by Jay A.

Way overpriced, bad service and the owner is the server, cook, waitress, waiter, hookah man and everything else. He is too cheap to hire more friendlier people. He will always try to sell you his expensive hookah versus the cheaper one. Why would you have a cheap and expensive hookah flavor in the first place?

by Bella I.

We went to this little location at the blackhawk plaza expecting authentic food... When I came in,  there was only one lady who was serving ( if even) one table and  of which it seemed she was also the cook (if she wasn't warming up food).. sat at the table for about 5 min before my husband came in, and I yet was asked for anything to drink or even given me a glass of water.. Went to the bathroom of which I asked my husband to order me a pot of tea, when I came back I still did not have either water nor hot tea... She asked if I had a lighter so she can heat up the tea, since she said she would not be able to make my tea and by this time I decided to pay for our hummus (as to what had too much tahini and had better) and left to go to a sushi place which was a lot better. I will never go back nor recommend this place.Need to mention, when my husband paid for the hummus, she came out with the tea to say it was ready.....right......

by Sherry B.

Delicious and authentic Greek food. Cooked perfectly. If you've never been to Grease, you'll know what to expect with food after you've eaten here. Very good service and a wonderful menu.

by Cindy L.

If you like Hookah and Hot Belly dancers on a warm summer night, then this is the place to go! The food isn't that great...and the service isn't that great either...but the fact that there is a Hookah bar in the middle of Danville is pretty Awesome! It's a fun place to go and get a few drinks with friends, smoke some Double Apple Hookah, and watch the belly dancer mesmerize you with her hips (I mean, how do they DO that?) They are open until 2:00 am on weekends, so it's a great place to go out to- without having to actually "go out"! (Be sure to have cash after 11:00pm, as they turn the credit card machine off at that time....and the ATM is far...far away" (I learned the hard way...)

by Jennifer S.

Would have loved to have tried this place - went yesterday at noon and doors were locked!  Option two: Alberto's next door: out of business!  Option three: the always dependable, but a bit pricey, Blackhawk Grill.  After lunch, walked back past Pride of the Mediterranean and it was then open (but no one at tables).  I suggest they open their doors prior to 12p to get customers who otherwise walk away!

by Lee H.

This was one of the most bizarre dining experiences I've had in a while. We arrived early on a Friday evening, still light out, families galore flocking to the sterile environment of Blackhawk Plaza. We sat ourselves along with our  nieces on the patio overlooking the pond. The makings of a nice early dinner, right? Our waitress was a bit terse with us, but we chalked it up as a cultural difference. Our meal arrives and it's mediocre at best. Although, I have to say, my falafel was pretty tasty. The pomegranate chicken was basically a Costco chicken kabob with not a hint of pomegranate molasses flavor. During our meal an older gentleman came out with a big piece of what appeared to be gyro meat and plopped it on the vertical skewer that uses radiated heat to cook meat. Not sure why this was all transpiring on the patio, but let me tell you, it wasn't a pleasant site to see this piece of Jabba the Hutt looking meat being sodomized by this man. The piece of meat was literally oozing by the time he had properly placed it on the skewer. It provided me with a new opinion about gyro meat, that's for sure. To top off our early dinner, a belly dancer started performing on the patio for us. Now I know that belly dancing can sometimes appear to be a bit erotic, but this woman was working the crowd for dollar bills. The topper was my three-year-old niece putting a dollar bill in the belly dancer's underwear. Yikes. Sorry excuse for Mediterranean food and a strip club atmosphere at six in the evening does not a good experience make.Definitely a Blackhawk dining experiment that we won't repeat.

by Joan E.

The food tasted very good, but we were very sorely disappointed that the portions were extremely unbelievably small! We were still hungry after the moussaka and the gyro wrap. I will not go back.

by Bro F.

The previous reviewers are absolutely correct and I had an almost identical experience. On a Saturday night we went to the Mexican place next door to this place and they had an over two hour wait. We were bummed but decided to give this place a try. Walked in and, at 7:30 on a Saturday night, not one customer. The ambiance on the back patio was nice so we decided to try it anyway. I didn't get the infamous cursing waitress that others did(I wish I did because it sounds hilarious), but I got some middle aged guy with gold chains, a cheap dress shirt buttoned down to an unacceptable level and some kind of cheap tennis shoes. I can deal with the fashion nightmare, but he was rude and the worst part, he had a blue-tooth on his ear and was talking to someone while he was serving us. Then he just sat there and stared at our table while we ate. Weird and creepy. The guy was a total ass!The food was not good. Dried out falafel, mediocre hummus and a "vegetable moussaka" that really appeared to be a tomato floating in some kind of broth. Apparently the owners don't read these reviews because there is definitely a trend that a real restaurant owner would try to fix.  Must be the tobacco that keeps them open...the food and service is terrible.

by Mike B.

If I could give it a zero I would...the food was horrible, the place was dirty and it was way overpriced...need any other reasons to stay away?  The lady convinced me to try the "pomegranate chicken" because "people come from all over for it"...it may have been the worst food I have ever eaten.  I moved up here from LA and worked in downtown La where getting good persian/mediterranean food was not hard...up here its been next to impossible.