Papaioannou Restaurant - Akti Koumoundourou 42

I should have trusted other bad reviews left by other people and should have not come here. Absolutely terrible overall experience. Neither food, nor service was good. The waiter behaved absolutely unprofessional. It is not ok to insist and even to pressure us to order only the most expensive positions on the menu, when simply asked for the recommendations. Please trust other reviews that mention that octopus here is chewy like a piece of rubber. I didn’t believe it and had exactly the same bad experience with it The cherry on the cake was when a waiter pulled out of my hands and took away the final bill that I was trying to read to see whether my bf was paying the right amount. I had to insist to have it back

Great food, the service is super slow and all over the place. Served appetizers, before drinks, before serving food to our toddler. Had to ask for the waiter to come every time. There were 6 waiters just standing around talking amongst themselves. Honestly not worth it.

In our second visit there we had a big disappointment as service was very late. But still I’m in love with the Greek salad they make.

Excellent sea food and fish and the pistachio baclava at its finest!

Very overpriced, and the food portions are very small, not like in typical Greek restaurant. Staff is slow and they brought me bread that I didn’t order. I don’t know why I left a tip of 2,5 euros for the worst experience during my trip.

Beautiful experience overall. We are a Greek family of three living abroad and appreciate almost everything in our homeland. This time it was this feel good fish restaurant by the sea of mikrolimano. It must be described as an experience because of the welcoming waiters the comfortable seating the cleanliness and the respectful behavior. The tastes are not unique for a greek restaurant but I certainly must point out they are as they should be. Salad papaioannou we appreciated for the uncut tomatos and lettuce leaves greek salad was satisfying with fine feta cheese just like we would choose at home. They were very honest about the available fresh fish and noone should expect more availability Because sea offers a lot but not all the time. This should be respected. Personally I was looking for more variety in clams and oysters which I didnt get because this restaurant is fish based. However I loved the kydonia selection and the shrimps from Symi were delicious. I was expecting more appetizer selection or maybe more variety and this is why I don't give 6 stars. However I admit I will return another day to try the fish. Original and feelgood place. Thank you all

Nice looking restaurant, but lacks in a few key things! I had both good and bad experience in this restaurant. It's a very chic restaurant and good for fish. The waiters are friendly and professional. We orderd a salad I can't remember the name, it's was the restaurants salad and we were 3 people. We forgot to tell them that the want the size for 2 people so they obviously brought us the bigger one for 4 people and it was so overpriced for what it was! 17€....and it was just a plate with lots of green uncut leaves that were very difficult to eat, one tomatoe sliced in 4 some cucumber and carrots and a very simple dressing. I didn't like the salad at all, I have been to much more budget restaurants with much better salads. Then we wanted 3 different fish dishes and 3 portions of chips on side. The waiter insisted that 1 portion would be enough so we trusted him as in other restaurants in Greece you get big portions of fries. They brought the fried and it was a small portion, just about enough for one person. The other thing I didn't like is that they didn't bring all dishes together but one after another, 10-15 minutes apart, so there was always just one person eating and the last one had to wait 30-40 minutes to eat. In the meantime we orderd another portion of fries which was finished very quick and when ordering the third portion the waiter said that it would take 20 mins...for s portion of fries!! So the the person who's food came last didn't have any sides. This was very disappointing. Also the grilled octopus was very chewy, they should do something about it. I have eaten much better and softer Octopus here in the UK in Greek restaurants. I would not eat there again.

The most refined “tavern” I’ve been to in Athens. The ingredients are fresh and of premium quality, the menu is simple, the staff is professional and very nice. Prices are those of a restaurant rather than a (refined) tavern, and considering that plates don’t come in an orderly manner but randomly (very Greek style), I agree with some other reviews that there are some contradictions. Still....it’s a 5 star for me! I’ll definitely go back, especially for lunch.