text: I'm Cuban. I'm not Greek. Nor do I think I know jack about authentic Greek food. I just like certain dishes, and I'll go where I can get them the way I like them. In this case, the dishes in question are greek salad with chicken and souvlaki platters, and to some extent hummus.\n\nBefore living in New York, I hadn't really had much by way of Greek food. I tended to stick with my Cuban food, run-of-the mill American food and steak houses, occasional Italian, and whatever I made at home. There were only a handful of mediterranean places near where I lived back in Miami, and I just never got around to them before leaving. Boo.\n\nThen I moved to New York. Greek diners are on every corner it seems! My now-husband and I had a particular favorite (Gracie Mews Diner) where we would go at least once a week if not more, and get a souvlaki platter without the pita. That was basically broiled chicken or beef, falafel, greek salad, garlic potatoes... I don't know what it was about that dish but my god, it was damn good.\n\nSometimes grapeleaves, sometimes hummus and pita, sometimes baba ganoush...but always that platter and the salad.\n\nWhen we moved out here we thought for sure we'd never find another souvlaki platter like the one at Gracie Mews Diner. But we've tried. Up until a few months ago when we finally went to Pitta Souvli, we'd settled for the one at Pita Jungle (I have my thoughts on Pita Jungle on this site somewhere). It was no Gracie Mews platter, but it was good enough to keep us coming back. Eventually though, i just opted for the broiled chicken salad over there. And that was fine, because apparently Pita Jungle opted to remove the souvlaki platter from their menu - at least in Chandler, that is.\n\nThen a client of mine mentioned Pitta Souvli, and even told me a story (I don't know how accurate it is) about how the owners used to work at My Big Fat Greek but hated the direction the chain was going in, moving away from the traditional way in which things are cooked in Greek cuisine, so they went and opened their own restaurant striving for quality and authenticity (judging by Sara G's review, they missed the boat?). Well, that client's story about the owners was enough to get me interested.\n\nPatrick (my husband) and I went to check it out - as we still were without a gracie mews replacement for our souvlaki platter/greek salad thing. It took us forever to find the place. It's in the most unfortunate location in a shopping plaza on Germann and Alma School, next to Cactus Bikes. You have to try really hard to see it. \n\nThe place is rather small, and the owner seated us right in the middle of it. Service throughout our visit was top-notch. Very attentive staff, our glasses were never empty, and they didn't ever leave us wondering when they'd come back. \n\nBut the food... ah... \n\nPatrick ordered the souvlaki platter and I ordered the greek salad with chicken. We also ordered a hummus and pita appetizer. Was it suitable as a stand-in for Gracie Mews? Absolutely! Pita Jungle who? (and i say this ONLY about these dishes - as I really love the art/music aspect of The jungle...)\n\nThe chicken was seasoned JUST the way I remember it from my Gracie Mews dish. The salad dressing was identical! The meat, tender and moist. The hummus was good, but had that strange taste like the one at Big Fat Greek, which i just can't get behind. I still like the hummus at Pita Jungle better. But I looove that they serve the pita bread all cut up and warm and toasty. \n\nWe even had some of their baklava for dessert. That's the one thing that I can say was good, but not good enough to be worth the whopping amount of calories in that dessert. I would skip it next time. Still, it's like pizza... even when it's bad it's good. \n\nWe both agreed would definitely dine here again, and in fact, we have picked up take-out a few times since then. I might even get a little adventurous and try something else from their menu for a change one of these days. Despite the lukewarm or downright cold reviews from some other folks, I did enjoy my food there, and I appreciated the staff's service and attention, something seriously lacking at MANY dining establishments in this area.