Week 3- Kri Kri

My choice again this week and I had been wanting to try Greek for a while so I found Kri Kri. The restaurant is at 39-41 Little Bourke St, Melbourne. We were able to make an early booking this time, so we went for 5.30pm.
We caught the tram opposite the station which took us right up Bourke Street and we got off just before Exhibition St and walked the short distance. Once again we were the only people there and the waiter seemed very friendly and showed us to a table. The restaurant was very relaxing and I felt very comfortable and ready to sample some real Greek cuisine.
We decided to give the Dinner Banquet a go, but we didn't want 2 of the courses, which were Calamari and Octopus, and the waiter said that was fine and we could substitute them with something else, so we asked for his suggestion and he said lamb cutlets and also a mushroom course.
We decided to have a bottle of wine this week and we chose Pinot Noir from New Zealand which was very nice.
The waiter first brought out some bread which was delicious and straight out of the oven, we were starving and tucked into that but thought we better save some room as the banquet had 12 courses including dessert and then coffee.

DINNER BANQUET # 1

$41.50 per person, minimum 2 persons

Mixed Dips Varied Dips

Dolmathes Vine Leaves wrapped with rice & herbs

Saganaki Grilled Kefalograviera cheese with lemon

Arnissia Paithakia Chargrilled lamb cutlets

Loukanika Grilled spicy Pork and orange Sausage

Yiganthes Lima Beans braised with tomato & onion

Keftethes Char-grilled Meatballs

Kotopoulo Scaras Char-grilled Chicken skewers

Patates Sto Fourno Oven baked Potatoes with lemon & oregano

Village Salata Greek salad

Baklava - Walnut-filled pastry fingers steeped in syrup

Coffee- Greek coffee and a latte

Now, there seems a lot to eat, but once again the servings weren't huge. We enjoyed every course, except Pete did not eat the mushroom one, although he did try it (good boy). The courses were very fast coming to the table and sometimes we had 4 of the courses on the table at one time. This meant we were not going to be very late leaving. The waiter as I said was friendly but didn't stop and explain what each course was and a few times we actually asked him. I enjoyed the food, but I think I was a little disappointed in that it tasted like every day food to me, and the fried cheese everyone had always raved about, just seemed like grilled cheese on toast without the toast.
We left there quite full and this time we had everything in our favour and just caught a tram which meant we got to the station to just catch our train, the 7.25 meaning we got home just before 8.30, which meant we were able to tape something we'd been wanting to watch.

Overall, very nice food, friendly staff, but maybe not authentic greek cuisine like I'd hoped for.

Total cost including the bottle of wine was $121.50