Santorini Greek Island Grill
La Jolla, CA · Greek restaurant
- Address
- Santorini Greek Island Grill, 9700 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093
- Phone
- (858) 622-0067
- Status
- Closed · Opens 8 AM
Santorini Greek Island Grill is a restaurant located in La Jolla, CA. It is one of 235 restaurants listed in La Jolla. Its 3.7-star rating is slightly below the La Jolla city average of 4.3 stars. There are 10 photos associated with this location.
Hours
| Saturday | 8 AM–9 PM |
| Sunday | 8 AM–9 PM |
| Monday | 8 AM–9 PM |
| Tuesday | 8 AM–9 PM |
| Wednesday | 8 AM–9 PM |
| Thursday | 8 AM–9 PM |
| Friday | 8 AM–9 PM |
Customer Reviews
One of the many locations within Price Centre, the only wait you'll have here is standing in the line for 5 minutes with everyone else who wants to eat good greek food. They have a great menu variety of everything between gyros and pitas to falafels and greek salads. It's just like home, except these guys make your entire meal in front of you in only a couple moments. I personally recommend one of their value meals where you get a whole chicken/gyro pita, a fountain drink, and so many fries they can't even close the box properly. i swear these guys round up twice when deciding how many fries to give you, but i'm definitely not complaining. If you like salt like me, you'll love this place. The chicken is seasoned and salted, fries are thick-cut and salted, everything is perfectly salted.
Santorini is very based. As a carbs enjoyer, their fries have excellent seasoning, salty in the best way, and their rice is buttery and tasty. 🤌 Could not ask for anything better, best fries I've ever had around San Diego. So I like to get their gyro plate with fries and rice. Their pita and gyro are also great, but not as spectacular. I think Cafe V gyro tastes a lot better 💀 but the fries and rice make up for it They give a lot of food, like Blue Pepper, so the $10 plate is almost enough for both lunch and dinner, two meals in one, if you're willing to carry leftovers around.
Why do people come here? The chicken is super dry. The staff is insanely rude and dismissive. I've been here a few times and the rudeness is shared (and taught from the manager down). Some anecdotes: I try to order quarter chicken, and asked for the leg instead of the arm. Am told (quite angrily as though I were trying to steal something) that leg only comes with half chicken. Why? There are four quarters to a chicken, so if you sell a quarter chicken with wing, you now have a quarter chicken with leg. Make it make sense? Second time I visit, I order a gyro plate. When I get to the counter, I asked about the baklavas. Am just totally ignored and they ring me up. I repeat my question about wanting to order baklava. They then give me a dirty look and ask me why I didn't tell them earlier (I
Do you wonder why the line at this place has visibly gotten non-existent this quarter? It’s not that the food has changed it’s still decent if you know what youre getting. It’s because everyone I’ve talked to complains about the same thing, the RUDE staff. They tell you to hurry up give dirty looks and DO NOT CARE. Hell, they won’t even give you water if you ask for it and are so stingy that they purposefully turned their fountain machine the other way! I guess they don’t know it’s ILLEGAL to not give water when someone asks for it but hey what do I do know. Personally I think they need new management and staff.
I watched the staff remove items from my plate during preparation, discard them, and then add some of what they threw out back into my food. When I asked why, they ignored me completely. This was disgusting and a serious food-safety concern.
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