This is another Greek breakfast place, though it is difficult to parse that out from their goofy sign and very basic menu. That sign, an object of much commentary, with the color scheme and odd font, looks almost like a child designed it. In fact, I mistook this for a daycare the first time I saw it. They continue this odd arrangement of primary color blocks on the menu itself as well, inexplicably. Adding to that is the décor, which looks like they bought random images of various "landmarks" (get it?) from Big Lots or maybe World Market and tossed them up on the wall. The padded booth seats are also higher than normal and very stiff, which was unusual. None of this is influential to the rating, but bears mentioning.
There are still several telltales of various items on the basic menu and the chalkboard wall behind the counter. One of them is the honey donuts, which were pretty well done and somewhat unique, basically fried dough balls served in a pool of honey on a plate, with pockets of powdered cinnamon. The rest of it had some issues, starting with Kroger tea bags for the black tea. My wife had the lamb sliders, which she enjoyed somewhat, but which came with a block of feta cheese and a glop of tzatziki sauce, which was about as unappetizing as possible. I got a Landmark sandwich, which was some shredded cheddar, a slab of pressed ham and what appeared to be powdered "scrambled" eggs stuck between some respectably grilled sourdough. It was quite bland and tasteless and I spent much of the time with it trying to improve it. The eggs had a very strange mouth feel that was kind of annoying. I would tolerate this, to an extent, on a road trip, when I'd want something fairly basic to just get and go, but here, it was pretty unwelcome. They also have Landmark potatoes, which is basically somewhat flimsy restaurant-made chips. If you've ever had a bag of cheap potato chips, what is left on the bottom, those tiny burnt crumbs, you've seen about half of what I had on my plate...also underseasoned.
I surmised, given that the honey donuts were the only actual good part so far, that perhaps they did sweets better. I ordered the baklava pie and the strawberry shortcake. The baklava pie should be renamed "walnut pie" as it is literally a pile of walnuts between some phyllo dough acting as a crust. I love walnuts, but it would be difficult for me to imagine more of a mess than this. The cheesecake was partly frozen but was otherwise fine.
Service was very good (and gives it the bump from the 2.5 that it realistically is at) and friendly throughout, with a lot of really good touches. Detail is meaningful with me, as usual. It's worth noting this is a "seat yourself" sort of joint, which is sort of obnoxious, but on the plus, you can probably nearly always get a table here...if you want one, I guess. None of the food overall was outright bad, but it would be hard to call it good, either. It was just mostly acceptable, I guess, some of it more than others. While the burgers did look somewhat interesting, there was nothing about this place to make it really stand out to the point where it would be worth a second drive, so I sort of doubt I'll be returning. read more