Greek Cuisina is no more.

What ever you do, do not let the Greek Cuisina cater your event. They will steal from you, short you items that you have already paid for, treat you like crap, and generally do a terrible job at what they call catering an event, beware! We just hired "Greek Cuisina" to cater our formal wedding this past weekend, July 25th on Rex Hill. We spent nearly $3000 to feed 100 guests. First off we had done the tasting and had everything chosen 6 months ago but when it came close to event time we couldn't reach the contact person and it took jumping through numerous hoops for days to get in touch with someone who could help us out. We finally were put in touch with the owner (Ted Papas) and learned that the catering planner had changed so he takes our order. ("thanks for the phone call in advance Ted") so we are now starting over from ground zero with our entire order. (very fun when you have every thing else to worry about when your wedding is less than a month away, thanks again!) So we make our order once again and guess what, it's about $1000 more for less food than than we were promised previously... and this guy is a real joy to talk with especially when he is yelling at you and hanging up on your call! So everything gets worked out and the big day comes around, it's 4:45 pm and the wedding starts in 15 minutes and guess who knocks on the door, the idiots from Greek Cuisina wanting a payment check before they can even start to set up. We had to hold the wedding so that this class act, overpriced catering service could get their stuff down to the event area and set up. How nice for our guests on a 95 degree afternoon to have to wait an extra half hour for them to set up.... later on in the evening they actually have the audacity to argue with my wife "the bride" about not busing the tables, Papas swears up and down that they weren't supposed to bus the tables, when its right there on the printed contract "busing service for 100 people" Very frustrating.... To make a long frustrating story short, here is a list of things we got shorted on or are unhappy with. We are in the process of recouping what the charged and shorted us on, with legal action if necessary: -there was "NO" rice... paid for 100+ people worth. -there should have been plenty enough flat bread for every person with some left over, "we ordered extra packs" the guests received 1 triangle piece of flat bread per salad (about enough to feed a 2 year old kid" -there should have been plenty of hummus leftover, we ordered a gallon and each person only got a small, "very small" cup full, where is the rest... Ted? -they shorted us on meat, (they were asking guests if they could use the meat off of the appetizer kabobs to put onto flat bread for the gyros.) very odd, where did all that paid for meat go... Ted? -no vegetarian kabobs to be seen... -they showed up at 4:45, everything was suppose to be set up by 4, we had to hold the wedding for them to get there stuff to the catering area. (only 1 entrance path to the event space.) -they argued about busing the tables and then did a poor job busing.. (my brother ended up busing the head table which they had forgotten about) -everyone in their group was to wear black pants and a white dress shirt, the old man (the owner) was actually wearing an old t-shirt and looked like a soup kitchen slob. -they asked for a check at nearly 4:45pm (the wedding was set to start at 5:00pm) -they didn't bring there own boxes to put the few left overs there was in, then asked for 1 gallon baggies, used a few and stole the rest of a brand new unopened box, this after we are supplying them....b go figure. -they rudely ignored guests when comments were made about the poor busing service. -used poor judgment on their part for only sending 3 people to cater an even of 100+ people. Save your money and aggravation don't even think about using these Greek thieves.

When I first moved here I knew this socialite chick who would text me with "@ the greek, come party". Then I saw the octopus... needless, I ran like Forest Gump on a three day meth bender. Gimme a tallboy of PBR and some shuffleboard. SNAPity-SNAP!

UPDATE: I walked by there a couple weeks ago and I saw blood all over the sidewalk and a dude getting loaded into an ambulance. Chicks were crying and it was all Boyz n Da Hood everwhere around there, testosterone and violence. I ran away like Forest Gump...

Wow, the Cusina used to be a total blast- the perfect place to take out of town visiters, NOW they have this kid-club upstairs, alot of punks with too much testosterone, too much ego, not enough brains. Cops and bouncers all over. (the news recently said they may lose their liquer license because of over 30 "incidents" in one month) We are avid partiers, but no longer go to the Cusina, not worth getting in the middle of a fight, driveby...anything. There are THOUSANDS of bars n PDX to feel relaxed and not keep looking over your shoulder.

Sadly, this place sucks now.

There would be a lot less probs here if they hired bouncers that were taller than 5'8 and weighed more than 160 soaking wet. It's just too hard to listen to these shrimps when they tell you what to do, so most people just don't. It would also help if the bar staff hustled when they're busy instead of taking their sweet time, imagine how much more sales they could generate

this used to be a classy place. but now you cant get a waitress or food and all they have is a bunch of drunken kids, there. and they the play any good 80,s music on the lower level, just hip hop and house music, i think the owners son. is destroying the family business. and just doesnt get it. send the drunken sloppy kids packin. they dance like morons. ill check later to see if they could return to past glory....

Ok, everyone listen to my cuts, they are good, no I swear they are good! Im from Jamaica and have a dred. Also im a bitch, did I mention im a bitch? Please listen to my crapy shit ass music. Also my mixing is good, sooo good! Get out of my face, im the DJ! Look at my hair, im the DJ!

I too think the braided guy that works at the Greek as a DJ is a fuckin asshole. Your club? You're lucky they let you WORK in there with that fuckin stupid look. He has been rude to at least 2 of my friends on separate occasions. You think you're hot shit, but really you're just cold diarrhea, HIPPIE.

Check this shit out. I was at the Greek on a Saturday night in the top floor bar. I was waiting to get a drink and this big burly dude with braids shoves me out of the way to get in front of me. I was like "what the fuck, bro?" and he looks at me and drunkenly mumbles something about the place being HIS club. I was like whatever and I let it go cuz he was pretty big but then after he gets his drinks I see him stumble over to the DJ booth and get on the mic!!! This motherfucker was the DJ!! I thought the staff at clubs was sposed to be cool to the clientele. Guess not at this place.

After our order was in front of our eyes: thrown on the floor, and reported to us that the food had been thrown on the floor and that it is being remade... After waiting a total of 45 minutes from ordering, and 15 minutes from the dropping episode: Our food "miraculously appeared" fixed: Fixed included scooting the food into the middle of the plates, and cold. On discussion with the manager of the evening, he reported "How do YOU want me to fix this... I can comp a few meals or I can redo the meals.. I can't comp everything. " As if we wanted our money back or we were expecting a free meal... We asked the manager to remake our meals that were cold. He reported that it was going to take minimum 30 minutes to redo. Somehow 10 minutes later the food returned: scooted around in the plates, and one dish even had the same food with the same exact bite removed. I was stunned. I cannot recommend this place to anyone. Please don't support an establishment that can condone this type of treatment of customers.

A hangout for Portland's young, young 20-somethings.. And one of P-town's typical venues where you'll see a bachlorette party or two, going on...

The greek. I have gone here on three occassions. Two of those occassions were for my birthday party. I got there early, around 8pm and enjoyed the festivities of plate breaking, shots of ouzo, and greek dancing. The greek is good for groups of people. At 11pm is when the "club" music plays, which is really just a dj playing tunes in a packed, stuffy room. I think the "club" atmosphere draws in a crowd of trendy guys and gals, and the cover is only $5. Be prepared to be smothered, as this small upstairs bar is not equipped to handle the crowd. On all three occassions a good time was had by all, or so my friends tell me because I was really drunk.