April 30, 2008 at 5:44 am (4-6, Jo'Burg, Ratings, Reviews)
Tags: Cooking, Feta, Fitness, Food, Food Review, Greek Salad, Health, Heathway, Home, Lettuce, Oil, Olives, Opinion, Piatti, Primi, Primi Piatti, Recipes, Review, Reviews, SA, Salad, Shopping, South Africa, Wellness
Rating – 5/10
An interesting mix of vegetables, smothered in oil! Sounds good, lets have a closer look.
The Primi Piatti Greek Salad certainly is different and they have mixed it up a bit. They’ve thrown in a few ‘untraditional’ extras such as boiled egg, beans, leak, and what appeared to be roast carrots that had been soaked in oil. The entire salad came pre-drenched in oil which for those people who would prefer to apply their own dressings may be annoyed by…
The salad had a great mix of different lettuce, from regular to rocket. It had the basics of the Greek Salad… tomato, cucumber, feta, olives & grated carrot all of which I cannot fault them on. The major things that would put me off having another Primi Salad would be the fact that I was unable to put my own dressing on, the green beans and although I enjoyed the boiled egg, it didn’t seem to fix nicely with the idea of a Greek Salad. It also came a little pricey for a Greek Salad, but maybe that extra cost came in the extra veggies.
If you’re the experimental salad type, by all means this might be the one that gives you the kick you’re looking for….
http://www.primi-world.com/
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April 24, 2008 at 4:14 pm (Updates)
Tags: Cooking, Cuisine, Feta, Food, Food Review, Greek Salad, Home, Lettuce, Olives, Review, SA, Salad, South Africa
So I managed to quite easily transfer all of the site from the old blogger address to the new wordpress site. So looking forward we plan to continue posting valuable, partial, and usable reviews.
I want you to be able to come to the site, and really get a fair point of view, and be able to draw from it information that is meaningful. Not some crazy review where we go ranting off about nothing of value.
So with that said, enjoy the new reviews and keep on enjoying Greek Salads
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April 23, 2008 at 1:36 pm (9-10, Jo'Burg, Ratings, Reviews)
Tags: Cooking, Feta, Food, Food Review, Greek Salad, Home, Irish Club, Lettuce, Olives, Review, SA, Salad, South Africa
Rating – 9/10
Aha! Something that I completely did not expect! An Irish Pub to serve such an excellent Greek Salad!
If I could offer you any advice! Rock through to the Irish Pub on a good weekend and order yourself a Greek Salad! The price is so reasonable for what you get and the salad was truly excellent. Now there was nothing special in terms of the salad dressing, it was just standard Knorr Greek Salad Dressing.
The salad came well presented with an excellent mixture of salads, they potentially slacked a bit on the supply of tomato, it was only half a tomato. The feta cheese was crumbly! *Yes!* Which was wonderful! The olives were varied between pitted and non-pitted which was interesting. Personally if they had lost the pitted olives the salad would have been impeccable.
I really recommend this salad to anyone who is keen and willing to go and have a good night out.
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April 23, 2008 at 1:24 pm (4-6, Jo'Burg, Ratings, Reviews)
Tags: Cooking, Dominique's, Feta, Food, Food Review, Greek Salad, Home, Lettuce, Olives, Review, SA, Salad, South Africa
Rating – 4/10
Well, Dominique’s in Cresta was interesting I have been meaning to make this post for a while now, seen as I went there on the 1st of Jan 07, but what can I say. I have been pretty busy!
Dominique’s salads are, to well be blunt, average!
They had the typical salad dressing and nothing special in terms of the salad. The feta cheese used was the ’squishy’ type. Which to be deadly honest I am not keen on. I prefer feta cheese to crumble under my fork! The bowl was not presented in any spectacular fashion and was filled below the surface with lettuce. Making the bulk of the salad feta and lettuce! You very soon ran out of other salad ingredients which is not cool in my books!
I was not particularly thrilled by this salad and wouldn’t really be going back anytime soon!
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April 23, 2008 at 1:12 pm (4-6, Jo'Burg, Ratings, Reviews)
Tags: Cheese, Feta, Food, Greek, Greek Salad, Salad, Shopping
Rating – 6/10
So last night we went thru to Satori in Linden for a Birthday Bash, and I can’t resist ordering thier Greco Salad. Hmmmm, heres the pic
So its was nothing special! Wasn’t bad, all the veg was fresh and tasty with no funny business. The feta cheese was brilliant! As you may have figured I don’t do that soft sticky cheese, so when I find the harder crumbly cheeses I’m happy. What you see in the pic is what you get! The rest was a pile of lettuce. To much lettuce is always overkill.
I don’t really like salads where I have to do all the chopping work. Thats what the chef is for 
All round it was a pretty decent salad, can bitch about much. The salad dressing was milky and pretty flavourless! I had to drown the salad toward the end to get the taste of it.
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April 23, 2008 at 1:04 pm (9-10, Jo'Burg, Ratings, Reviews)
Tags: Cooking, Feta, Food, Food Review, Greek Salad, Home, Olives, Review, SA, Salad, South Africa
Rating – 9/10 – Excellent!
So, last night I was at a party and we all went thru to Scrooges in the Waterfront. This has to be the best Greek Salad I have had in a loooong time! It was excellent and I would highly recommend this salad to anyone in the area.
The salad came with some little flowers on top (which i know are edible) but I threw them off All the vegetables were fresh and the lettuce crisp. The salad had been nicely chopped into easily, bite size piece which is excellent. I think we pay enough these days for a salad for the chef to do the chopping for you. Unlike some other places where you get a tomato halved!
The scrooges salad only suffered (for me) by using to much of the soft, very rich feta cheese. The tomato was a little lacking although they did use cherry tomatos which are just excellent. The salad dressing was one of the best I have had in a long time too!
Summary! A brilliant salad, which is worth every Rand. I will definately be going back there for a large version instead of a small.
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April 23, 2008 at 12:56 pm (7-8, Jo'Burg, Ratings, Reviews)
Tags: Cooking, Feta, Food, Food Review, Greek Salad, Home, Olives, Review, SA, Salad, South Africa
Rating – 8/10
Well sometime ago I went through to Boston Barbecue. They are a buffet styled restaurant with a massive selection of foods. The greek salad is layed out in parts and you basically make it up as you like. So you can make the perfect salad. Overall the Salad Dressing is excellent and the quality of the veggies is top notch. Feta has a dry crumbly composition which I really enjoy.
I would have to recommend taking a visit to a Boston Barbecue and making a salad for yourself.
My rating is a bit different with this one, because they didn’t actually prepare the salad. So my rating is on food quality.
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April 23, 2008 at 12:51 pm (0-3, Jo'Burg, Ratings, Reviews)
Tags: Cooking, Food, Greek Salad, Home, Salad
Rating – 3/10
To be quite honest this Greek Salad did not impress me. You get about 5/8ths of a Tomato, and from the photo every vegetable/feta you see is what you get. The salad has a massive pile of lettuce and quanitites of everything else are very skimpy. Over all the veggies I did get were fresh and the feta and olives were very nice. The salad dressing could have had something extra to give it the edge. It was basically a plain salad dressing with not much of a thrill factor. It didn’t have a strong taste, so for some thats a good thing, but to actually get a wiff of it you would have to drown your salad.
I’ll pass on this one if I ever go to Mimmo’s Again
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April 23, 2008 at 12:27 pm (7-8, Jo'Burg, Ratings, Reviews)
Rating – 7/10*
So the Mugg & Bean “Classic Greek” Salad is not all that bad. It comes with what seems like tortilla wedges, which are not all bad. I personally ate them first so as to enjoy the Greek Salad uninterrupted. The salad came nicely presented with very generous quantities of Feta and Olives. A large pile of lettuce was not unexpected. Some people may or may not like onion, but their were around 5-6 onion rings. Small amount of cucumber with probably half a tomato. I liked the fact that the Cucumber and Tomato was chopped us nicely. But the lettuce and onion rings were a do it yourself scenario. The feta was the more creamy & rich make which is common to restaurants. It came in very large chunks which I’m not particularly keen on.
Salad dressing I must say that I did enjoy. It comes with maybe to little, so a bit more could have been nice. It looks unassuming at first to be the regular balsamic vinegar and oil mixture, but I was pleasantly surprised when I found it had a very nice sweet tang to it. I can’t place what they had added, but it added to the salad quite nicely.
Overall, the Mugg & Bean salad is a regular restaurant salad with a few pleasant surprises.
*I’m starting a rating system so I would place this as a 7 out of 10.
Since writing this review I have had this salad 3 times. It is definitely not a horrible salad.
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April 23, 2008 at 12:16 pm (7-8, Jo'Burg, Ratings, Reviews)
Tags: Cooking, Feta, Food, Greek Salad, Home, Salad
So, let kick off with the Jolley Rodger, seen as this has been my latest Greek Salad Tasting.
The Jolley Rodger for a Pub has a remarkably decent Greek Salad. The salad didn’t have anything special to comment on from a regular Greek Salad. To let everyone know I ordered thier small, which came with everything I would expect from a Salad.
Lettuce
Tomato
Cucumber
Onions
Feta
Olives
Salad Dressing
The tomato, did seem as though it were a few days old, it had slightly changed texture to borderline grainy. The quantity of lettuce to other veggies didn’t seem surprising, it wasn’t overdone, which was a very good start. The feta may have been slightly overdone with every mouthful having some feta on the fork. The olives did seem slightly squishy, which to be quite honest I’m not to keen on.
The salad dressing was the regular restaurant bought in Salad Dressing, nothing home made or special. It may be a little to sour for some people, but I quite like the strong foods.
I was unable to test the salad without the Salad Dressing as it came served pre-dressed. Normally just the salad is a good place to start.
Well, that my first review. Hopefully be getting a few more up soon.
Enjoy
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