The Mediteranean Restaurant in the Kirini Hotel on Santorini, Greece
We made the mistake of visiting the restaurant of the Kirini Hotel in Oia, Santorini, Greece, on the evening of October 4th 2007, since we did not feel like going out and wanted to enjoy the undoubtedly nice view on the Caldera from the Kirini Pool terrace. After the previous experiences, we should have known better 🙂
The setting was great, the service perfect – a wonderfully friendly young man, local to Santorini, serve us. This is just to say that he is not to blame for what happened afterwards. Also, the wine was a dry local one, perfectly ok and correctly described by the waiter. Then came the food. We went for seafood, which seemed a good idea, being on Mediterranean island. The prices were right ahead obscene, the starters the mid-30 Euro area and the main courses in the mid 40s. If you compare this with the perfect experience in the 1800 two days ago, it could have been ok, given that the hotel is known to be overpriced, if the food have been flawless, but it wasn’t. I had langoustines as a starter, which had clearly seen their hours of freshness quite a while ago and were mealy and tasteless, served on a bed of fennel and other greens without any significant seasoning. You could have had this material in a local Taverna for 8 Euro with better freshness taste. The fish that followed was unedible, and I’m not making this up. Leathery and cold, it was again not fresh, which, as we reckoned by then, is not wonder because not other idiots were making the mistake of eating here and the cook was trying to stretch the time before throwing away the food which was not consumed. A local cat which knew the situation better than we did, was prepared and had a great meal for about 40 Euro. She had, as we learned, little babies and I felt I did something good feeding the stuff to her. My company had the same sea bass made different style as a starter and, while finding it edible, was not particularly excited. She then had the most expensive main dish, a drag fish soup, which was boringly flavoured, almost cold and suffered the by then well known shortcomings.
We did not take a desert and went to town for the coffee. I can only warn to visit this restaurant.
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