Apollonia Mediterrean Grill Review

$$$ Ambiance is as good as the food. I've not eaten very much Greek food, but this place makes me want more!!! Wait staff, servers, hostess A+.

Always top of the line. Food is delicious and fresh.

Very cool place.. Good eating shopping and accessible from the intercoastal waterway

Forget high tea at the Grand Floridian come here for French press pots of Mighty Leaf tea, accompanied by the trio taster of hummus, eggplant and others with fresh hot pita. Then the galaktobureko cream-filled pastry with excellent pistachio gelato, cream, and berries is an experience. If you re here at lunch or dinner, we can t help ordering the varied flavors of the mezze platter.

I cannot say enough good things about this place. All of the staff were friendly and welcoming. Our waiter (i hate i can't remember his name, he was a very polite redhead) definitely made the experience even better. We started with the hummus; it was so creamy and just phenomenal. Then they brought out extra bread and a tray with some herb butter, oil and balsamic vinegar, and a tapenade (all amazing). For the main course, I ordered the Proscuitto and Fig Flatbread. It was probably the best thing I have ever eaten. All of the ingredients compliment each other so well. I got the Greek margarita to go with the Flatbread, and it was just as tasty. We will be returning, and soon.

Great upscale Mediterranean Restaurant, comfortable booths, multi-colored walls creates a warm cozy environment, wonderful upbeat wait staff, high quality salads and home made fish stew with deep colorful flavors.
Brian was one of our outstanding waiters and he is terrific, accurate, natural and pleasant!
I ordered a side salad and a cup of fish stew that was out of this world in taste and aromas, very reasonably priced and filled me up. The French Iced Coffee was a great treat and I look forward to each and every visit.

Another great dinner with cocktails with family and friends. So happy they are open again... our favorite Mediterranean Restaurant since they opened!! Our group had the lamb chops, osso buck, mezza platter, shrimp with orzo, etc.....everything was fabulous as always!!

Nice place good service good food, price a little on the high side.

How many ways can you say phenomenal. Service and food always 5 star

For the price food was not great. Wait staff could not speak English well enough to take order, I had to repeat myself several times. Will not go back.

I had spinach pie and eggplant stuffed with beef. Excellent!! As good as my grandmothers!! Terrific restaurant. I definitely will be back.

The waitress was friendly. Heirloom tomato and burrata salad added the lamb chops....delish

Moderately priced food for Small - ish portions. Service was slow but our waitress was apologetic. Good in a pinch but not worth a special trip.

Picked up dinners for three tonight. So delicious. Two of us had the lamb chop entrees. Have never had better lamb chops. Cooked perfectly and the spices were perfect. The sides of veggies and potatoes good too. Apollonia has gone to the top of our list for take out. Will definitely do this again. Did not order tonight, but have had Apollonia Greek salad several times and one of best ever. Thanks Apollonia

I had Mousaka and the 3 others in our party had lamb shishkabob, all were delicious, served hot and with very good vegetables. Atmosphere is good, service extremely good and friendly. You can also eat on a patio outside.

Outstanding value; healthy options including awesome salads! Full bar. Great for family or date nights.

Good food, a good amount of menu items, and a clean and handsome atmosphere. The starters are a little pricey, however.

Very nice place with some really awesome Italian and Greek food....we went on Tuesday night and tried the Branzini whole fish. I haven't had whole fish like that since New York city. Fantastic!! A little hard to see it, but very nice restaurant with great food and staff.

One of my favorite places. Food was delicious and our server was excellent!

Food was great but we had to wait for a long time before a waiter came to take our order

The waiters were nice but Food was NOT good at all and it was cold!! The grilled asparagus was really bad, they were old and had a really bad taste to it. It is also so expensive and NOT worth the money!!! I would NOT recommend this to anyone!!! I don t know how they are a 4.5 star restaurant, if I could, I would ve gave them 0 star!!! Even the 1 star that I just gave them is not worthy of them!!! So unless you want a rotten, old, cold, and expensive meal then this is the PERFECT restaurant for you!

The food was fine. The service totally disorganized. at a table of a dozen people we had only one waiter who took drink orders but didn't recall who ordered which when he served them. Because some of the group were still checking the menu he said "some still making up their minds" and walked away.

There was a LONG wait for the meals (understaffed in the kitchen as well, perhaps?) and again he had no idea who had ordered what so there was a lot of switching plates and "No, this isn't mine".

As I said the food was fine, we all enjoyed it but come to Bill time and more "Did you have the Merlot or the Malbec?" questions flew around.
The final straw was an order based on a badly worded menu meant an $18.99 meal became a $28.99 meal.

Needless to add we won't be eating there again, very disappointing.

Very dissapointed. I called the restaurant to make a reservation and wasn't informed they won't be carrying their regular menu but instead had a fix menu for the night.
My reservation was for 730pm..we were seated at 8pm ...then the manager couldn't make it right so we had to leave a look for a restaurant on Valentine s day...

Wow. We ordered curbside for family of 4. We got the gyro meal, and let me just say, the amount of food could have fed easily 6 to 8 people. And, such quality ingredients for each dish. The salad was fresh with a ton of feta cheese, the gyro was huge, a whole tray of fries and pita, and breadsticks. I would definitely order again.

Holy moly. I don t normally leave reviews, but I feel like I should after our experience tonight. I m not sure how this place has such good reviews. We made a reservation, got seated and waited 10 mins at our booth without anyone greeting us. We decided to move to the bar just to give it one more chance in case the server was super busy. The service was even worse at the bar. I ordered a martini, and they gave me a drink in a cocktail glass with a straw and it was terrible. That terrible drink alone was another 10 min wait. Once we finally decided to leave, we saw people sat in our previous spot with an appetizer AND drinks. At that point we hadn t even been asked for food. Apparently customer service isn t important or they just pick and choose who they decide to wait on. We will not be back.

Good food but poorly managed. It's like the inmates are running the asylum. There are way too many other places to dine to put up with that nonsense.

Always my to go place! Chef is super accomdating, and staff are always helpful. Food with consistent quality, and if something not exactly to your likings, please let them know and they will try their best to fix it! I feel at home here!!! LOVE!!

Have been twice, first time food and service was excellent but second visit both were severely lacking. Waitress abandoned our table for 20 minutes when waiting for our checks. Food was bland..... Need more consistency.

Very nice place to meet and talk to your friends. Food was great too

I was so excited to go here because I was craving good Greek food..The service here was BEYOND awful. Sat at a table for 20 minutes before we decided to get up and leave because we hadn t even been greated yet. Not even I ll be with you shortly. Not to mention the outside section (where we were sitting) had about FOUR empty tables. My mood is ruined and I ll never go back here again.

Excellant place to eat! Dishes are fresh and they have lots of options. We had the lemon dill shrimp, octopus appetizer and seafood stew.

Beautiful place, good location and parking space. Deelicious food with immaculate presentation, friendly and polite staff. I can t be wishing for more. Will be visiting anytime when close to the area.

Great food, outstanding service.
Extensive menu.
Acustics can be loud at times.
We will return.

A great place to taste good quality Greek food. Staff sometimes gets overwhelmed which causes prolonged wait times but the food is worth waiting.

Went there with my elderly uncle and it was very good. Some dishes made us feel like we were at a fine dining restaurants.

Visiting for the holidays and already ate here twice. Really amazing food and service. Try the beet and whipped feta salad with tuna, it's amazing! Highly recommended.

Mixed meat platter was great. The gyro meat is very good; the tzatziki is awesome.

Very nice place to eat, we ate lunch. Very generous with there portions. We will do dinner.

Best Greek food in Sarasota! Love their Greek salad and Gyro meat together!

Great atmosphere, food is excellent. Service is outstanding.

Opa!!! The service is spectacular the food was very good and the ambiance was very relaxing. The owner Edison invited me and my family to come try the food and it was absolutely amazing, everyone I know should go.

A premium Mediterranean restaurant. Excellent be service and very good food.

Excellent food! Very tasty. Can't wait to go back.

Best medetaranian restaurant in Sarasota. Octopus was the best I ever had, lamb chops and seabass as well. Service was outstanding and the place very clean. Overall was great experience.

Excellent dining with our favorite waitstaff.. Nicole..

I went here with my team work work and was apprehensive because I am not a huge fan of Greek food. But, I decided on the spinach artichoke chicken (without goat cheese) and loved it!

Delicious healthy freshly prepared food. Perfect proportions. Fresh bread served while you wait for dinner. Excellent friendly service. I suggest reservations during dinner hours

Chelsey was the best waitress ever!! Polite, prompt, and exceeded expectations!!

There food is excellent and service friendly. They were so busy tonight.

A fabulous Mediterranean restaurant with excellent service. We really enjoyed our meal here while in town visiting, glad we stumbled upon it!

Wonderful, highly recommend this Mediterranean inspired restaurant. We had a mixed grill of salmon, shrimp, and chicken skewers that were beautifully cooked and seasoned along with the special mussels appetizer that was also amazing and some delicious crafted mixed drinks.

Stop by once a week for the Greek salad with lamb chops...The meal is superb, but...today the lamb chops were so tiny I needed a microscope to find them...still looking

Soooo, you don't like dogs huh !!!!
you realize of course how dog friendly this area is right and then on top of it the the woman has a disability and you still kick her out... I don't usually take my dog to restaurants but I still wouldn't patronize you place now.

Nice, refreshing Greek fare. I would recommend going. The outside seating was a nice option.

I am very fond of Greek food and had heard Apollonia was a nice restaurant. We were quite disappointed. The grilled octopus was tender, but not grilled, at least there was no evidence or grill marks and it was nothing like the many other times I have had the dish in Greece as well as Greek restaurants in many other cities. The Greek salad was, well not an authentic Greek salad either. A Greek Salad is 5 ingredient: Tomato, cucumber, red onion, kalamata olives and feta cheese: A tradition in Greece and Turkey; a specific salad and it is dressed with a dressing base of olive oil , lemon juice and spices. Period. This salad was field greens and lettuce, very very small pieces of cucumber, two large wedges of tasteless tomato, two thin slices of beet with red onion, feta and olives. The worst part, a side cup of a pink vinaigrette which was nothing lile a Greek dressing, this made the entire dish terribly disappointing. Certian menu items should be true to what they are suppose to be, otherwise change the name by which you call it ! The lamb burger was way undercooked and the only really good item were the fries. The value for price was not valid...I would not go back, there are too many better places in this lovely area.

We spent New Year s eve here. Everyone got cold vegetables and sides. My husband use the men s room. His feet were swimming in urine. The manager came over with a meal for one of us because he got such a bad dinner he couldn t eat it. He never mentioned he was the manager. For apologized for having to eat after everybody else was done. I spoke privately to the manager about the bathroom. He said he would take care of it. They couldn t even give the gentleman with the bad meal a free drink. For two people we spent $120. The appetizer was the only thing that we all liked. What a disappointment I will never be back. The waitress tried to just stay clear. Now we know why because she knew he wasn t going to do anything. What a shame. Hopefully they ll be out of business and something good will come in there.

I wasn't impressed, considering the price of the meal. I won't be going back.

Excellent service, good attention, they make you feel special, the food very delicious and the prices are even better.

Great great Greek food, it s a treat and we love going there at least once per month, somewhat upscale so nicer atmosphere than most places in area

Mediterranean/Greek restaurant that hits all the right notes. Luscious lamb dishes are just the beginning of a varied menu. The Meze plate is listed as a lighter offering but could easily be a main course. Many types of seafood, appetizers and mains. Service is efficient and friendly. It's another Sarasota dining winner!