Comments on: Forget ‘Top Chef’. Can you make it in Miami?

By: J>c>

J>c> — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 06:52:38 +0000

http://southflorida.dinemag.net/restaurants/taverna-opa-debuts-at-the-dolphin-mall-on-thursday/

FAKE REVIEW…

TRUTH..#6 IS A FLOP…AND BAD NUMBER… A BEASTLY SIGN… FOR THINGS TO COME..

I was working thursday and you were NOT there!

Well.. This is obvious a marketing blurb from someone who has NOT been in the taverna opa.. at Dolphin Mall

first half of the things you listed ..are NOT on the menu in the Dolphin mall. We started with an opening menu..

There is NO lasagna, no souvlaki, no greek paella (what is that anyhow??), no athenian scampi, no lemon chix..

and the head chef is named Rich (hardly from Athens) and john…

and these fotos look nothing like the food served there..

and there is only one belly dancer… quite cute but not trained too well and she always starts the dance with 3 or 4 ..1$ bills strategically placed from her vestry..

Sadly, it most likely will be a flop. The food is good, i highly recommend the Greek Salad, but that should be an easy score from a “Greek” restaurant owned by a Chinese guy (with a VERY bad sense of humour and corny jokes), greek guy, and north american “american dad” looking guy…..

DO NOT go for the Family platters, very small portions, weak delivery timing..

Drinks way too expensive.. 9$ martinis.. I suggest trying blue martini instead as you will save on the commute.

I think your best bet would be to simply eat a Buffalo wings or the other bars in Dolphin Mall and watch the non-greek waiters dance (speaking spanish) and lonely belly dancer flopping around with her propped up $$ bills..

2 stars… (I quit)

By: JACK J

JACK J — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:31:44 +0000

YES WEVE BEEN TO DEVITO… THE SERVICE IS OUTSTANDING AND THE FOOD EVEN BETTER,, WE SAT NEXT TO TOMMY HILFIGER AND THE CSI MIAMI CAST..

By: FISH

FISH — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:29:43 +0000

MANERO’S THE BEST IN THE BUSINESS…JUST DRIVE DOWN ATLANTIC AVE ANY TIME AND SEE THE PEOPLES CHOICE…ITS VIC AND ANGELO’S… BY 10 TO 1 WOULD BE AN UNDERSTATEMENT.

CAN’T WAIT FOR HIS NEW “OFFICE” ON ATLANTIC AVE

By: B HAMMER

B HAMMER — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:26:39 +0000

DELRAY VIC AND ANGELOS WAS JUST RATED A BY PALM BEACH POST AND WON THE FIVE DIAMOND AWARD? ARE YOU KIDDING OR JUST THAT JEALOUS…

By: Lenny Buth

Lenny Buth — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:16:04 +0000

Dave Manero is a FRAUD and a wanna be “wiseguy”. OPM – Other peoples $$$ — Food is garbage in Delray….

By: ELC

ELC — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:56:00 +0000

I hope Mr. Suley formerly of Cafe Joley gives his customers more
food on their plate than what he gave when I ate there. What an
overpriced place. The duck was just o.k. I never went back. So the
Fountainbleu can have him. Mr. Manero’s restaurant(Vic & Angelos)in
Delray is nothing great either in my opinion. There are much nicer
restaurants in Delray for the price. They were totally overpriced
for lunch.Good luck to Gary Rack-Coal Mine’s Pizza is very good, but
than again I ate great calamari(can’t eat cheese on pizza). It was
totally delicious. As for Opus 5, I will definitely try it again with the new chef.

By: Pjay

Pjay — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:18:48 +0000

It’s too bad that south Florida restaurants have to hire, well, south Floridians. I have been to restaurant after restaurant finding that clueless, idiotic, inattentive people make for clueless, idiotic, inattentive servers.

There are exceptions, but it often feels like I have to ~help~ my servers to be good servers. That should not be.