January 10, 2009 at 12:29 pm (4-6, Jo'Burg, Ratings, Reviews)
A run of the mill, standard Greek Salad
Rating – 4/10
All my past experiences of the Piatto in Cresta have been great! This salad however left me longing for something better!
Presentation
I have decided to add the presentation of the salads into my reviews…
The Piatto salad came in a regular bowl, with the salad dressing stuck in the corner of the bowl on top of the salad itself, over all the presentation came across as nothing special!
As soon as I see a salad being served in a bowl I automatically jump to the assumption that the bowl will be filled with lettuce, and all other ingredients will be piled on the top. The Piatto salad did not disappoint my assumptions!
The Cons
It had less than half a tomato?! Seriously… with all the local petrol price increases I didn’t expect tomato to become the most expensive part of a salad?! So why are we skimping on the tomato these days?
The salad really was a no fuss, nothing special, pile of lettuce in a bowl with some veggies thrown on top.
I am really loosing respect for the salads served with the ’soft gooey’ feta cheese, feta cheese should crumble. I know this contradicts some of my past reviews but I am beginning to wonder if this is the cheap alternative to real feta cheese!
The Pros
The olives were great, not to rich, yet flavorful!
I tasted the salad dressing before I even poured it onto the salad (just in case it was terrible), and I was pleasantly surprised. It appeared to be home made, as it was a dressing I had never tasted before. It came across quite strong on its own, but once poured onto the salad it complimented the veggies perfectly.
Summary
I wouldn’t go out of my way to order this one as a starter. Stick to their Camembert cheese!! 
Piatto Mediterranean Kitchen
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January 4, 2009 at 11:41 am (4-6, Jo'Burg, Ratings, Reviews)
Tags: Calamata, Cooking, Cuisine, Feta, Food, Food Review, Fratellis, Greek, Greek Salad, Greek Salad Review, Health, Home, Lettuce, Olives, Opinion, Resturants, Review, Reviews, SA, Salad, Shopping, South Africa, Wellness
A rich, strong, flavorful Greek Salad!!
Rating – 5/10
The best way to describe this salad is simply, Rich, Strong, Flavorful… as I have said already. Fratellis in Greenside make a salad that is laced with an extremely vinegary salad dressing, and olives with a flavour that would make most people run for the closest piece of tomato, or cucumber to simply calm the flavour rush. This is not necessarily an all round bad thing. I for one quite enjoy a strong salad dressing, maybe they simply needed to put less on, or put to much on to start with.
I was dinning with a group of friends and they stole two pieces of feta cheese and I was still left at the end of my salad with a sad load of crumbed feta drowning in salad dressing… that was after rescuing the drowning pieces of remaining lettuce.
Regarding the mix of veggies… its a regular disappointment, half a tomato cut into four pieces, a few slivers of green pepper & onion, not a ridiculous amount of lettuce but it certainly was the main ingredient.
It is a salad that is as mainstream as they come, nothing special & nothing horribly wrong. It scrapes a mid level score, becuase it resembles a Greek Salad and tastes like a Greek Salad! 
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January 3, 2009 at 3:45 pm (4-6, Jo'Burg, Ratings, Reviews)
Tags: Calamata, Cheese, Cooking, Cuisine, Feta, Fitness, Food, Food Review, Greek, Greek Salad, Greek Salad Review, Health, Lettuce, Oil, Olives, Opinion, Pita Bread, Resturants, Review, Reviews, Rocket, SA, Salad, South Africa, Spring Onions
Kicking off the new year with a relatively top notch Greek Salad with an interesting twist… just to keep things interesting!
Rating – 6/10
Lets start by pointing out the obvious.. Pita Bread?! Having memories of the Mugg & Bean salad. They made up for this oddity by at least providing a side plate and Balsamic Vinegar and Olive Oil. (It makes a great mix for dunking the bread of any resturant!)
Back to the Greek Salad though, unsurprisingly it turned out to be roughly a one inch deep bowl filled with lettuce, and all the other ingredients scattered over the top. They made up for the quantity of lettuce by surprising you with a few pieces of Rocket, and Spring Onions instead of normal onions. The Spring Onions actually made for an excellent addition, they are not to strong simply adding flavour. I think this choice will go down well with most salad eaters who don’t enjoy the regular onion in salads.
Feta & Olives were run of the mill catering Calamata Olives and the Creamy Feta. The feta was not to salty though which can often be the downfall of many fetas as they can come across way to strong.
I really must find out the make of the Salad Dressing used on this dish. I have tasted it many a time on Greek Salads from all over the place. It must be a standard in the catering industry. Nothing wrong with it though, its remarkably enjoyable!
One thing I noticed was the cucumber seemed quite slimy (I left most of mine) it seemed as though it had been cut, and kept in a bowl of water to keep from drying out.
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January 3, 2009 at 5:11 am (Updates)
Tags: Cooking, Food Review, Greek Salad, Greek Salad Review, Home, SA, Salad, South Africa
Its been over a year now that I have been running the SA Greek Salad Review site, yet I only have 12 reviews. Its been more of a hobby than anything ‘official’, but with the beginning of the new year and some inspiration from a few friends I have decided to step up the reviews.
In other exciting news, I recently met a casual blogger, who lives in & reviews restaurants in Cape Town. We have arranged to begin reviewing Greek Salads within Cape Town. That’s gonna be awesome, and I really look forward to the first reviews from the Cape.
I have also re-arranged the site, you can now easily find highly rated salads & salads specific to an area, using the new link system. We have future plans to begin reviewing commercially available Salad Dressings too, so keep on checking back for those!
I wish everyone a Happy New Year, and I hope that it will be a Great Year for you all.
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