Tasos Euro Cafe

Service with a bite



A friend and I went to see the World War 2 bombers at Norwood Memorial Airport, and decided bring our lunch money to Taso's Euro Cafe, in the airport's parking lot. Their hours sign showed that they were closed on Sunday, but the door was open, so we went in.



My friend ordered a sub and I saw a small Gyros pitta on the menu, which I ordered. The food came really fast. The sub was decent, the Gyros tasty. I was a bit disappointed that the Gyros was americanized Greek meat loaf, not the traditional pork-and-lamb-sliced-off-the-grill that Greek restaurants in Europe serve.



My coffee was decent, but my friend took a sip of his coke, made a face and left it on the table: a fountain drink made from unfiltered chlorinated town water.



The waitress, a young Greek lady, came and asked how the food was, but didn't wait for an answer amd turned around and left before we could ask for a bottled coke from the refrigerator. No refill on the coffee either.



When the bill came, nicely tucked in a leather pouch, I noticed that the fountain drink and the coffee were $2.95 each - pricey. The bottom line showed $20 and change, we decided to leave $22

As we walked out, the waitress came running behind us, telling us that we didn't leave enough money for the meal. My first thought was, that I accidentally pulled a $10 note in stead of a $20 note, but no, when I looked at the cash register receipt the waitress showed me, I noticed I should have pulled the receipt out of the pouch: I had missed the tax and the grand total for $22.26 ...

<blush> I had shortchanged them by $0.26 - my mistake.



When I tried to explain what happened and see if I could find a few bucks to make up for my mistake, the waitress interrupted me several times and aggressively remarked that "even if we didn't want to tip her, we should pay at least the entire bill". I couldn't believe what I heard and asked the waitress "can we be nice to each other?", waited for the waitress to compose herself. She didn't.



While I was waiting, my friend got four quarters and dropped them in the waitress' hand. She kept her hand out, not a word from her, no apology, just glaring at us. When she realized she really wouldn''t get more, she spat out "No tip?"

After how you treated us here, outside?" I asked her. She pushed three quarters in my had and told us to "never come back".



Don't worry, we won't.

I'm not sure whether the other reviewers were having a bad day or not, but my experience with this restaurant was the complete opposite. We've been going to this restaurant since it opened. Their bad luck (a fire at their Quincy location) was our good fortune since we live in Norwood. The people running this restaurant are funny, generous and good spirited. Can you imagine your family business burning to the ground and then restarting again? I can't, but I'm so very glad they did.



This restaurant has the absolute best Greek food in the Boston area. I'm not a native New Englander &amp; have gone to Greek restaurants in Western Pennsylvania, Baltimore-Washington, and New York areas -- I know good Greek food when I taste it.



Best kept secret: They are open for breakfast on Saturday mornings. Try the hash brown potatoes. Awesome!