December 26, 2008 at 3:56 pm (7-8, KwaZulu Natal, Ratings, Reviews)
Tags: Cheese, Cherry Tomato, Cooking, Coral Divers, Cuisine, Feta, Food, Food Review, Greek, Greek Salad, Health, kwazulu, KwaZulu Natal, Lettuce, natal, Olives, Recipes, Resturants, Review, Reviews, SA, Salad, Sodwana, Sodwana Bay, South Africa, Travel, Wellness
Being the Holiday Season I recently (well back only a few hours ago) ventured to Sodwana Bay on the west coast of South Africa, where I spent 6days at a Dive Resort called Coral Divers. The resort is amazingly well kept, and if anyone is venturing to that part of South Africa it is definitely the place to stay.
Rating – 8/10
This salad achieves the 3nd highest rating on the site so far! A the first to be photographed with a proper camera 
The salad made by Coral Dives certainly is unassuming, served on a regular size dinner plate with all the salad ingredients layed out on a bed of lettuce. I must comment right now though that some of the lettuce was rather dry (it appeared slightly old, even though the photo makes it look old and soggy). The salad came with good proportions of all the regular veggies, which was a refreshing change from some of the last Greek Salads I have had. It was however lacking carrot, but they certainly were not missed! A powerful flavour boost came in the form of very rich olives, and a wonderful feta cheese that had a melt in the mouth sensation. Of course cherry tomatoes are a wonderful addition to a Greek Salad with their unique and wonderful taste bringing so much more to the Salad. The onions were perfectly proportioned giving an excellent flavour boost just here and there.
The cons sadly fall to the lettuce, the salad could have maybe done with just a little less lettuce and maybe lets throw in a small variation in the types, and we would have a winner of a salad right here!
The salad dressing came in the form of the ‘off the shelf’, Knorr – Vinaigrette Salad Dressing which suited the salad perfectly. I have decided to begin reviewing salad dressings on the blog too so keep checking back for those 
Excellent work considering sodwana bay is pretty remote, so keeping most things fresh must be a challenge!
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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 12:27 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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