The Olive Bistro Midtown - Atlanta

I came based on this image of the interior on Google Maps and was disappointed when I got there so find the dining seating below ground in an outdated area. The ambience was very meh. Next to our dining table was a bucket of pita bread and a panini grill,that hasn’t been cleaned in a while, where they were heating up the pita…it was weird. We paid $17 for an appetizer of hummus, babaganoush and eggplant. Realistically it should’ve been $10. Portions were small of the dips and there were 3 small cold slices of eggplant. My mom said her chicken had a strange taste to it and my salad was small for $16. I expected much more to it for the cost.

One of those perfect restaurants that hits everything right from the food, service and atmosphere. Solid choice! All the food was good. The steak was crazy good.

Everything was delicious and the service was great. And half price bottles of wine on a few days.

I’ve been here probably a couple times per year over the last 5 years or so… it’s always been pretty decent. But today, (I ordered pickup and it was bad. Really bad. The pita was totally stale and inedible, the lasagna seemed kinda old (either old like it had been sitting around for a few days, or at least the noodles might have been undercooked something was going on where they were too tough to cut and it was SO SALTY I couldn’t eat it. And I love salty things, so that’s saying something. (And there was just like cold hard cheese that wasn’t really melted on top. Even my dog didn’t want it. Same with the roasted potatoes, too salty to eat. And the chicken kebab, though it looked over seasoned, was just blah and flavorless. I gave them 2 stars instead of 1, because they’ve been pretty good in the past, so I’m holding out home that this was just a bad day for them and maybe understaffed.

Nice little neighborhood joint with good food reasonably priced. Good quality price ratio. The Halumi was good, spinacotta was ok and the gyro plate was a lot of food and comes with choice of 2 sides! Went for the hummus and Greek potatoes pretty good :