Estia

11/04/09

Estia accepts YourCauseCards

by Lili Margot at Citysearch

Estia accepts 1 YourCauseCard with a $100 min. Estia is participating in the YourCauseCard fundraising program. When you buy a $5 YourCauseCard a bonus donation is made to the cause you select. Then you get to spend the full value of the cards at Estia and other participating restaurants and retailers. Raise money for Your cause, the donation is free.

• Pros: Raise Money for Your Cause
• Cons: Eat good food

10/18/09

Lovely food & service, but front management can use some sha

by ckwald at Citysearch

It has pretty much all already been said about this fine restaurant. The food's great and occasionally verges on the exquisite, and table service was perfect, even on a very busy pre-theater Saturday night.

My one gripe is that it was pouring cats & dogs on the night we arrived and we waited, and waited, for the valet to show up and park our car, went twice into the restaurant to inquire about it only to be told by the reception folks that he was there--somewhere. Finally, after nearly 15 minutes, one of our guests already present in the restaurant left the bar and parked the car herself. This might not be such a big deal, I suppose, but one of our party in the car was a Senior using a cane-- and she was the one who made the inquiries at the desk about the missing valet! Nobody showed any particular concern for her situation. At a restaurant of this caliber, I would have expected one of the front desk people to volunteer to deal with it --hence one less star here than I would normally have given it.

• Pros: You won't find grilled octopus as good as this anywhere.
• Cons: Parking valet nowhere to be found on rainy Saturday night

10/11/09

suoer duper

by creativeuses25 at Citysearch

Can't say enough about this jewel of a restaurant. It is unmatched as far as quality greek dining is concerned.

Love u guys

• Pros: great food, gorgeous place

10/01/09

Ok food, horrible service, worse management

by centercitymama at Citysearch

Went for a romantic dinner Saturday night and was horribly disappointed. We were put next to a rowdy, drunk table who ruined the dinner of all nearby diners, oblivous to management. There appeared to be 2 managers, but they just hung out in front of the kitchen all night, and in ear shot of this table, but did nothing.

I order the calamari app. and when I received it it was completely different from the description in the menu. I asked the waitress and she said they were 2 calamaris, and that I should have been specific. I told her I wasn't aware of that, but I wanted the other, she brought it and charged for BOTH!

My husband's $40 fish was burnt.

It took 25 minutes to get the check.

The entire time we could not have a conversation because of the obnoxious table next to us.

Horrible experience! Don't go!

• Pros: nice atmosphere
• Cons: servers, managers

08/30/09

Excellent food

by rockstar1974 at Citysearch

So impressed! We had a very attentive server who took time to explain things on the menu if we had questions. She also overheard us saying the salads were large and asked us if we wanted to remove one of the sides from the dinner. That was considerate. I ordered the hailbut which was very tasty and melted in my mouth. Portion sizes were adequate! I also ordered the roasted potatoes based on recommendation and they were to die for! I never knew roasted potatoes so could be light and tasty. My friend ordered the 3 day marinated Lamb Chops which he kept raving about. The salads we had were both excellent, the saganaki cheese was great and the tzatziki sauce was excellent as well. We will definitely go back! It is located in downtown Philly so in the middle of all the action.

• Pros: Excellent food, service, good location
• Cons: couldnt hear the live music