I was pretty hungover when we came in here for some Greek meze on Sunday...but Karavas made my world better.
I've been here once before and remembered warm, genuinely friendly staff and delicious home cooked traditional Greek food. It was just as pleasant as I remembered...but we used a taste card, so it was cheap as chips! Even though we were getting 50% off our food bill, they still gave us a couple of free meze dishes (yummy beetroot and cannellini bean salads)
Starters:
Aubergine salad: This was garlicky and gorgeous with the hot pita bread.
Hot mixed starter: this included dolmades (stuffed vine leaves), lountza (smoked fillet of pork), loukanika (little spicy sausage) and grilled haloumi. The loukanika was lovely, but it was the dolmades that blew me away! They were stuffed with meat as well as rice and you could tell they were made freshly. Yum.
Spanikopita: This was a bit of a let-down. I normally looove spanakopita, but this one was a bit too oily for me.
Main:
We were stuffed after the starters, but somehow found space to share a dish of sheftalia. We ordered it because we had no idea what it was...and it turned out to be spicy (fragrant rather than hot) meaty sausages with rice. This was also looovely.
The décor is a bit dated and the loo was freezing...but I would still recommend Karavas for a relaxing Greek meal.
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