Zoé - EAST AMHERST

I really enjoy this restaurant. When I was 23, my friend Casey worked there.

The atmosphere was fantastic. The server was very courteous and attentive. Our food was full of flavor, and we truly enjoyed every bite.

The restaurant is clean was a pleasant environment. Our servers were friendly. They also have lots of seeing available at 5:30 on a Saturday night. I know that Zoe has been talked up as having wonderful food, but it was just okay. I did not like the eggplant dip, but that might have been personal preference. It tasted like cut up eggplant and garlic and that's it. I was expecting something more. We were served a different kind of pita than the one we ordered, and it took awhile to get the right pita. I got the souvlaki salad with beef. The beef was marinated well and cooked exactly the way I ordered it. The salad itself was lacking. I opted for no onions, so I had pieces of tomato and probably an entire lettuce head's worth of greens, every single piece about two or three times larger than convenient to eat, so it was kind of work for a salad. In addition to overdoing the lettuce, they overdid the feta. I thought the feta was really flavorless. I expected more tang and zip. These are my American taste buds that like extra flavor on everything, but I disliked it. I ordered the side of tzatziki, which, in my opinion, should come with a souvlaki salad, but it was an additional $3.75. okay, they were upfront about the price, and I agreed to pay it. That also is disappointing. It was very thick with a couple pieces of cucumber in it and again no flavor. Of course when the server asked how everything was, you say it's good because what can they possibly do to change the fact that you don't like it? Nothing. I just made a mental note not to come back.

Great location, deep menu, good food, attentive wait staff. A bit pricey. Full bar. Nice atmosphere.

This place was fairly recently remodeled and classier than I was expecting. The food was well prepared and fresh. Didn't love the house made Greek dressing but it didn't stop me from eating it. The salad was pricey but absolutely huge. I had two meals from it. Wait staff was friendly and attentive.