Holy Pitta Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "What an excellent kebab!.. delicious chicken yiros with hand cut fresh chips, what more can you ask for and service was excellent but best of all very decent price!!"
• "Original taste from Greece."
• "The food is consistently fantastic. Simple, rustic and bursting with flavour."
• "Very good quality food and tasty."
• "The food tasted absolutely delicious."
• "Food was great! Tasty, greatly cut pieces of chicken and pork yerros."
• "I just love the souvlaki!!! Always good. Staff is always nice and place is clean."

Cons:

• "The skepasti had some off taste and I've realised that it was the meat."
• "The most disappointing yeeros. No sauce, spices or flavour and only 3 pieces of thumbnail sized halloumi."
• "The taste is not the same as it was a year ago."
• "The food did not reminded me of real Greek souvkaki, while meet was red inside, not cooked enough time."
• "Unfortunately there has clearly been a change of management with a horrific result on the quality and taste."
• "Everything was soggy and greasy."
• "The dish was just too bad with this uneatable bitter flavour of the meat."

Service

Pros:

• "The staff are ever so friendly and fun, including Tony."
• "Clean place and friendly staff."
• "They all do genuinely seem enthusiastic about the products they sell."
• "The staff were superb - chatty and welcoming."
• "It felt like being on holiday!"
• "The staff were friendly and accommodating, particularly since we turned up late around 9pm."
• "Fast and courteous service."

Cons:

• "Terrible service. Very negligently slow to serve water as I asked for."
• "Highly disappointed with the service ! We were waiting for souvlakia for 35 minutes."
• "Bad service and charges."
• "The front of house was awfully disrespectful, racist, rude and greedy."
• "The service leaves a lot to he desired: slow, disorganised and coarse Not very customer-oriented and too keen on getting you to order the pricier stuff."
• "Manager/man on till - the rudest man I have ever come across."
• "Rude manager and inefficient. On top of that, my order was not what I asked for."

Atmosphere

Pros:

• "Your search is over - this is the best gyros in London. As close as you'll get to an authentic-tasting gyros outside of Greece."
• "I sat outside so you get the atmosphere of Islington."
• "The restaurant style if simple with greek music and writings on the walls."
• "The atmosphere was also very appealing."
• "This place is brilliant, the yeros are delicious and the souvlaki amazing, I cannot wait for the restaurant to open fully I bet the atmosphere is amazing."
• "The ambience is so non-pretentious and comfortable, it'll put you at ease as soon as you enter."
• "Authentic Greek food, great service, lovely atmosphere."

Cons:

• "Nothing in the name of ambience or atmosphere."
• "Unfortunately there has clearly been a change of management with a horrific result on the quality and taste."
• "Serious hygiene concern."
• "With such a vast number of restaurants on Upper Street, I would take your custom elsewhere."
• "Horrible greek place, the worst I have tried in London."
• "The place had no heating."
• "We were the only people in there which was the only downside, there was no atmosphere."

Value

Pros:

• "Best moussaka in London, real Greek food not Cypriot like in Real Greek restaurants."
• "Food was delicious, I ordered a pork yeero which was a good size and very affordable."
• "However a plus for the food was that the portion sizes where very good."
• "You can taste the love in every bite and feel it with sizing of the portions - value for money."
• "Very good food and value for money."
• "The food is amazing, the interiors... eclectic and it's fast for a good price."
• "Great food, good vibe, decent wine selection, we’ll be back :)"

Cons:

• "For £14 I suggest to go any other place around but not here…."
• "I regret ever stepping foot into this place."
• "A 10.2% service charge, which was previously included in the cost of food, was added to the total cost of the order."
• "Hands down the worst Greek food I've ever been served."
• "Prices are rising, portions are decreasing."
• "Went there last night and they double charged us for almost half of the bill (around £200 more)."
• "Nice Gyros, but £9.60 for a gyros is way overpriced."

Cleanliness

Pros:

• "Clean place and friendly staff."
• "Clean and friendly stuff."
• "I just love the souvlaki!!! Always good. Staff is always nice and place is clean."
• "Very clean open kitchen with a good/quick service but the best was the food quality."
• "Staff is always nice and place is clean."
• "Very friendly, very clean."
• "The restaurant was clean."

Cons:

• "Everything coated in cooking oil."
• "Cleanliness is an option here: food remains on the floor and tables."
• "Serious hygiene concern."
• "Haven't eaten here and won't. I was shown a photo on someone's phone who had walked past this so called eatery on their way to work in the morning and on the image was two rats running around."
• "The only waiter was dumping food leftovers with bare hands, he was eating while speaking with customers and without washing hands and he was serving food, which raised serious hygiene concern."
• "They are very loud whilst working, making the whole environment very noisy."
• "This place is a big disappointment for several reasons: burnt skewers, cold gyros, over-salted food in general; poor food quality."