The Olive Bistro Midtown - Atlanta

I’ve been here probably a couple times per year over the last 5 years or so… it’s always been pretty decent. But today, (I ordered pickup and it was bad. Really bad. The pita was totally stale and inedible, the lasagna seemed kinda old (either old like it had been sitting around for a few days, or at least the noodles might have been undercooked something was going on where they were too tough to cut and it was SO SALTY I couldn’t eat it. And I love salty things, so that’s saying something. (And there was just like cold hard cheese that wasn’t really melted on top. Even my dog didn’t want it. Same with the roasted potatoes, too salty to eat. And the chicken kebab, though it looked over seasoned, was just blah and flavorless. I gave them 2 stars instead of 1, because they’ve been pretty good in the past, so I’m holding out home that this was just a bad day for them and maybe understaffed.

Nice little neighborhood joint with good food reasonably priced. Good quality price ratio. The Halumi was good, spinacotta was ok and the gyro plate was a lot of food and comes with choice of 2 sides! Went for the hummus and Greek potatoes pretty good :

A great dinner and drinks while people-watching. The kabob sampler with lamb and chicken were great.

Had high hopes because I’d ordered delivery from here earlier but ended up disappointed Ordered a rosemary chicken sandwich and a falafel sandwich on wheat. The taste was just ok. Like it was not super great and neither was it horrible. Just ok. Felt like eating fast casual at a sit down dinner place and that felt kind of weird too. The baba ganoush was.. a weird color and kind of grainy, not smooth. And there was too little pita to go with it. It tasted ok but the texture threw me off At some point someone turned down all the overhead lights and the lights started flickering instead of being like a constant dim and that gave me a horrible headache. It was fine if the lights were on full but the on/off thing was really disconcerting and we heard others mention it too I guess we also ended up there on a super busy day where they just had one person running around doing everything, I hope their service is better otherwise? And they have a bar area where some sports were playing which is fine I guess but struck me a bit odd haha But it’s cool that they have half off wine bottles on mondays. And other drink specials other days Solidly average experience and food, don’t recommend if you’re in a hurry though

The restaurant is dark, small and gets packed really quickly. It probably has enough room for 40 to 50 people at most and a small bar with about seven stools. The customer service is good but when they have live music you have to shout to hear the person in front of you because the acoustics are awful. I ordered a Greek salad and lasagna. The salad was okay but the lasagna was salty and primarily cheese and meat sauce. There was very little pasta in that dish. By the time the night was over I blew $80 in that restaurant. I tipped the staff but left disappointed and won't return.