Basilas, St. George Ut

I don't have time to format this the way that I would like, but lets face it your probably surprised that I'm still posting (or posting again) at all.


I lived in Greece for a while so when I heard about this place I was pretty excited. I decided to try it out one night and well, the experience was kind of disappointing. There was a pretty good sized crowd there the night that I went, and yeah the outside has more atmosphere than the inside, the decor is fine, but I wouldn't call it Mediterranean. 


It's not a very big restaurant, so you'd think it would be hard to get "lost." But some how I did. I didn't know what I wanted the first time my waitress came by, but I didn't think I'd have to wait 20 more minutes for her to come back. I couldn't decide whether to get the Spanikopita, or the Souvlaki, because I really wanted to try them both. Then I noticed that for almost exactly the price of both I could get a combo plate, but the combo plate came with the chicken and the beef souvlaki. This was definitely what I wanted. I reasoned that even though it was way more than I wanted to spend, it would probably be enough food to take some home, and eat the next day. After waiting for what seemed like an eternity my food came. (about a minute before my food came they brought out some bread and oil for me) The bread was ok, but not great, the oil was good, but I wish I'd received it about 1/2 an hour early... while I was actually waiting for my food. 


One of the servers (not mine) was kind enough to make sure I never ran out of water, she seemed nice (and I admit, I'd probably like to get to know her better, so if your reading this... let me know) and for that I was truly grateful. For the most part the food was good, but everything was cut in half. literally. Each of my kabobs, was three small pieces of meat (1 chicken kabob, 1 beef) I expected a full kabob of each.  There was plenty of rice, but not $20 worth. The flavor was good. Then I tried the Spanikopita. It was soggy. I'd been seeing these large gorgeous servings of spanikopita come out, and I was pretty excited. but I only got about three bites worth of Spinach pie. I expected at least twice what I got on the Spanikopita, and at least 20 % more on everything else (except the rice, I still had plenty of rice... though I was able to finish it all). I felt like I was getting a buy one @ $10 or Buy two @ $25 deal. If I had known, I'd have ordered them separately. 


I totally felt like I got gypped. I was not impressed with Basilas, and I would not go back. The worst part of the whole thing is that I really could have had a good experience. Some restaurants make sales, and some make customers, this one didn't end up making a customer out of me.


I would give this place maybe 3 and a half bronze spoons out of 8, The food was mostly pretty good, but the experience was everything else.