Vasilis Mediterranean Grill

Website:http://www.vasilisgreek.com/
Location: 353 Main Street, Gaithersburg, MD 20878
Hours of Operation:

Lunch

Monday - Saturday : 11:00 am - 3:30 pm

Dinner
Monday - Thursday : 4:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Other Times

Friday and Saturday 11:00 am -10:00 pm

Phone: (301) 977-1011

Introduction
I went here with my friends from my previous workplace. Just like me, they both are major foodies! This restaurant is located in Kentlands, Gaithersburg. The restaurant is really catchy-to-the-eyes, because of its bright blue and white paints on the outside of the restaurant. Anywho, once inside, the place is decently sized, not to big and not to small. The blue colors from the outside of the restaurant is definitely brought inside, with blue colored lamps. The golden-painted walls are lined with photos of the Mediterranean to bring in the Mediterranean ambiance.

Food
The lunch menu consists of various seafood, dip, meat & poultry, vegetable and cheese mezedes. There are also numerous salads, hot panini, shish-kabobs, seafood entrées, other entrées and greek platters. We all decided to settle for greek platters. For the greek platters, you can decide to order just the sandwich ($7-$9) or platter ($12-$13). The platter is the sandwich  served with a Greek salad and a choice of
french fries or rice. Each lunch entrée comes with a Greek salad. The Greek salad consists of romaine lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, green peppers, red onions, olives, and feta cheese. The salad was a bit...empty...it had tiny pieces of each ingredient, except for the lettuce. It was disappointing. For the main entrée, I chose the Lamb Souvlaki. It was grilled marinated lamb served on a grilled pita with chopped lettuce, diced tomatoes, onions, feta cheese, and the house–made tzatziki, with french fries on the side! It was decent, the sandwich had about 5 pieces of lamb. I bit less than I thought...and a bit drier than what I would like. The tzatziki sauce was mouth-watering. I wanted to order a second serving of the tzatziki just so I can pour it on everything and lick the plate clean! The french fries were nothing too special, it was just like any normal french fries you could get. Dessert, however, was spectacular, we decdied to get the galaktobouriko, which was lemon custard between sheets of phyllo with light honey syrup and garnished with cocoa powder, powdered sugar and raspberry sauce on the side. It would have to be the best part of this lunch, apart from the tzatziki sauce. I wouldn't say it was very lemony though, personally, I did not taste any lemon. Everything worked well together, if I could change just one thing, I would have more raspberry sauce on the side.

Service
The waitress was patient and attentive, without being a nuisance. She was able to respond to our questions about various food items, ones where we had no idea what it was. The waitress did everything with a smile. She made us feel welcomed. At first, we had a hard time deciding whether to get dessert or not, but she made recommendations and that led us to discovering the galaktobouriko.

Overall
I would rate this place a 3 our of 5 stars. The food was OK, nothing to special. The tzatziki sauce and the dessert was the best part. Service was as expected. This was a decent place to eat at, I would love to return for the dessert once more!