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The Village Taverna

  1. Victoria
  2. Victoria Greek

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The Village Taverna
"At The Village Taverna we select our vendors carefully, and we stay as local as possible. We look for the best food produced with best practices. And if we can't find something essential that’s up to our standards, we make it ourselves. From scratch."
Address: 101-1075 Pendergast Street , Victoria V8V 0A1, BC, CA
Phone: (250) 592-7373
State: BC
City: Victoria
Zip Code: V8V 0A1


Opening Hours

Monday: 12:00-20:00
Tuesday: 12:00-20:00
Wednesday: 12:00-20:00
Thursday: 12:00-20:00
Friday: 12:00-21:00
Saturday: 12:00-21:00
Sunday: 12:00-20:00

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Reviews
Super friendly staff and chefs are a big advantage of this restaurant. Looked like most of the people are regulars and absolutely loved the food. They're halal if I'm not wrong. Never tasted the dish covered in grape leaves and it was really good. Prawns and meat balls were just cracking. Overall a must visit restaurant.
Excellent! Very clean premises with polite, attentive staff. We had the lamb platter for two. The dinner included a Greek salad which had all fresh ingredients. The lamb was quite tender. Plenty of food for two adults and the price was very reasonable. We definitely will be visiting this restaurant again.Recommended dishesPlatter for Two
There is some interesting history to this place. For decades, Eugene's was an iconic Victoria institution, serving exceptionally high quality Greek food across several locations, in a relatively casual unpretentious atmosphere. When the father Eugene who founded the restaurant retired, his sons took over. The quality of the food generally remained good, but consistency suffered, as the sons were largely missing in action, with no real passion, grit, or business sense for running restaurants. At one point there were sticky tapes all over the menu, updating the prices. Staff shortages and turnovers. It just felt they couldn't be bothered anymore. For a time, they had anniversary specials, where they would lower the prices back to 1980s prices, and the restaurant became completely overwhelmed with customers, showing that people still did remember and love the food, but that the restaurants were just badly mismanaged. Eventually Eugene's became an unprofitable enterprise, with one location closing after the next, with the last Eugene's shutting its doors about ten years ago. "Village Taverna" was opened not long after, about 7 years ago, initially as a way to revitalize and re-brand what was Eugene's, in a somewhat different form. Initially it was pretty decent, using Eugene's familiar recipes. It changed hands, and quality started to noticeably slide, but there were still a few remnants of what was great about Eugene's. I came recently, for the first time in a few years, and the food is now unrecognizable. The tsatsiki is runny, where it was once thick and flavourful. The pita is parched and thin, where it was once fluffy, elastic, and fresh. Similarly, the chicken is thin and dry, where it was once juicy and flavourful. The life of the food is gone, in favour of cutting corners, but not prices. It feels like if you let someone without any sense of English prose edit away Shakespeare until it was unrecognizable. If you forget all the history, what is now Village Taverna is not terrible. It's mediocre to fair Greek food. It could be okay in a pinch, and not a lot worse than the typical run-of-the-mill Greek food served in this part of the world. The lady who served the food was really nice and sweet. Perhaps there are some items that are still like Eugene's was, but there's no evidence of that. The only thing that is clearly the same is menu listings, but when you order those items, you're brought something completely different, devoid of the life and magic that was once Eugene's.
Really good food! I recommend the plate for two because it has everything and it is so delicious. Nice environment and service!
We two arrived just before lunch time right after a party of 10 or 12 had been seated. Nonetheless, the staff took our order right away so that we did not have to wait behind the large table and the food arrived very quickly, piping hot. My bean soup was delish and though we mostly had appetizers they were decent sized portions, quite tasty although It would be nice if they gave a little extra pita with the hummus and the tzatziki and the like.
The food here is a mixed bag. My husband liked the pork kebabs, but everything else is left to be desired. The moussaka is one of the worst I’ve had and that is usually my go-to dish at Greek restaurants. The Greek salad is meh. One of my kids liked the gyro wrap, the other one didn’t really.
Some of the best Greek food I have ever had!! Very close to the Greek food I had traveling through rural Greece!! Staff was so friendly , the food was cooked perfect. You could taste the love and effort in the food!! A new have to eat spot every time I come to the Victoria Vegetarian options: I had the vegetarian platter, the spanakopita was so fully of flavour. Lots of times spanakopita is lacking flavour or is dry, hence why they have dips with it. This one didn’t even need the dips to taste good
One star for the staff who were attentive and polite. Dining in, it was very cold inside. The lamb skewer was cooked perfectly and was tasty enough. The Greek salad was kind of lame. The veggies have not been marinated in any way, they just pour some olive oil and a bit of vinegar and that's it. The tzatziki is plain. I wish it was better, I love greek flavors. Its basically a take out spot.
I'm so disappointed. We got the vegetarian platter for 2 and it was barely enough food for 1. We had to add 2 vegetarian pitas they were disappointing too, they didn't even have feta... It cost 70$ which is outrageously expensive for the low quality food & tiny portions we got. The service was the only thing amazing about this place. Vegetarian options: NOT GOOD VEGETARIAN OPTIONS
The new female waitress flirted with my boyfriend the entire time and didn’t talk to me to ask me how my food was and ignored me the whole time. She checked in on us a few times and only payed attention to my partner. That’s horrible customer service.
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