Daphne’s Greek Cafe
344 Westlake Center
Daly City, CA 94015
(650) 991-3496
No.

This is not Greek food.

Some of it looks right. The vegetarian platter had things that looked and somewhat tasted like dolmas, bland hummus and pita.

But what were the hockey pucks? You call that falafel? And the oversized Totino’s pizza rolls? Don’t even try to tell me that crap is spanikopita with a straight face. Deep-fried and greasy as hell, the spinach and cheese was more akin to frozen pizza snacks or even egg rolls than anything any self-respecting Greek restaurants back home would even consider serving. And the tzatziki was just wrong. It was incredibly thick and seemed more like sour cream with dill than the tzatziki I’ve had anywhere else; no cucumber was noticeable at all.

The overall quality of the food, although it was nowhere near authentic it would have warranted two stars. But the last star gets taken away for my last bite. Even though I still had 1/3 of my meal left, but after tasting mold, the rest of that food went right where it belonged: into the compost.

One star, Daphne.