The Tantalus Restaurant

Enjoyable early dinner after walking the dogs around Issaquah on a sunny late (🤞) Winter afternoon. We shared the mixed appetizers (hummus, Tzatziki, eggplant dip, Skordalia, feta, olives) with warm pita and then the Olympus Plate dinner (Moussaka, Chicken skewer, Spinaokipta, Dolmades and veggies). I encouraged my friend to try Retsina and she enjoyed its unusual but refreshing taste.

My husband and I came here for the first time with some friends. We were so impressed by the incredible customer service from Alice. She was so kind and helpful in choosing our meals and even gave us some tips on cooking the food at home. The food was delicious but Alice’s service took it over the top! We will def be back again!

Takeout review: I was hopeful about this restaurant given the location and appearance, but our food was average at best. We got the gyro dinner and Olympus combination plate to go. Estimated time to pick up was 25 minutes and it was ready by the time we arrived close to closing (I typically try to avoid but I did ask when calling if it was too late to order and they were fine with it). The flavors of both dishes were alright but not notable in any way. My biggest complaint is that my Olympus plate was missing the one item I wanted the most: moussaka. I’d rather they have told me they were out and it wasn’t included instead of not saying anything. It felt like they tried to compensate with more spanakopita; unfortunately, I wasn’t a fan of that item. They also forgot to include the soup that was supposed to come with the gyro dinner. My favorite part in the entire combo were the potatoes, of all things. Perhaps dining in would be a better experience, but I’d still probably skip.

Extremely overpriced for a basic gyro, and while I did take this to go so it may not be the restaurants best showing, the gyro was nothing to write home about with gigantic chunks of tomato that would be a mouthful all on their own, and meat that was surprisingly lacking in flavor for a gyro. The steamed vegetables were exactly as described no surprise there, but the potatoes were just an odd thing, swimming in… water? Grease? Who knows it was very unusual. Also they forgot the pita for my $11 hummus so I had to break out my own chips after paying… $11, for hummus. I just could not justify coming back here when a food truck will have 10x better flavor, fresher ingredients and at half the cost. Thanks, but no thanks.

Restaurant was empty when we stopped in so we thought about going somewhere else, but glad we didn’t 😁 sat outside on the porch under covered patio tables. Falafel was so good! tzatziki has a delicious flavor. Greek salad was all vegetables (no limp gross looking lettuce) a little pricey but so is everything close to Seattle. Worth stopping in!