Athena Restaurant - (312) 361-8445

• In the Heart of Greektown
• Perfect for Holiday Parties
• Authentic Greek Preparation

I went to Athena for lunch today, and, while biting into my octopus was horrified to discover a metal fishing hook. We pointed this out to our waiter, and the manager came rushing over, yelling "It is the fisherman's fault, not our chef's fault. What do you expect us to do?! Check every piece of fish?!" He acted as though as I was the "bad guy" for mentioning it. Then he called the owner over, who also yelled at us, claiming it was not their fault. No comped food, no apology, no graciousness. ...and somehow, during this encounter, the hook "disappeared." Awful experience, and the food was not very well prepared, by the way. Don't bother.

The staff was great, but the food was so salty. My party of six all agreeded how salty everything was, down to the green beans. I was so looking forward to having a good Greek dinner and was so turned-off by the food. I will stick with Central Gyros and Rodity's where I have never had a bad meal.

We went to Athenas and I was really dissapointed. We had the saturday special loin lamb which was 85 % fat. uneatable. I waited 20 minutes for a drink that I requested twice. Also when the final bill came I received a handwritten unreadable piece of paper so forget to double check what are they charging you for. The waiter looked like he hated his job, MEN if you dont like to work saturday nights preferably stay home and let somebody else do a better job. Will never go to a greek restaurant again.

Being a first time visitor to Chicago, I was excited to visit Greektown. We first walked into Parthenon and could barely get in the door to ask about seating times, there were so many people. It had to be against a fire code, or something. We were told it would be about an hour. Being pregnant and starving, I didn't think I could wait that long, so we headed back down the block to Athena, where we had already passed and noticed it wasn't that busy. We walked into Athena and were rudely told it was a 45 min to a 1 hour wait. Looking around, there were about 50 empty tables and no one waiting to be seated. We left and went back to Parthenon and were seated in 30 minutes.

I Love this place.....The food is almost a carbon copy of my yia yia's. The staff was polite and even funny at times. My group was very happy with the way we were served. I will come back to the place 100%.