Kouzzina by Cat Cora Reviews - Disney Reviews and Ratings

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Exomonia

Registered: June 2009
Posts: 2

Review Date: Mon January 4, 2010

Would you recommend the product? Yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 10

Positive aspects of the product (pros):	Food and service
Cons:	The occasional loud shouts from kitchen

I must admit, I was very sad to see Spoodles go. It was a family favourite of ours. But since Kouzzina had taken over, we thought we may as well give it a shot. The entire meal was a great experience. As soon as you open the menu, guests are treated to a food glossary for food items which the majority of guests wouldn't know. This helped in the ordering of the meal, and our waiter was extremely helpful. I ordered the pastitsio, and it had to be one of the nicest dishes I have ever eaten! It was extremely filling though, so it was impossible to get through it all. The only negative thing I'd have to say about this restaurant is the shout from the kitchen every so often... they shout out the Greek word for celebrate I believe every few minutes. Overall, I would come back here to eat again.

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Mouse Skywalker

Registered: August 2005
Posts: 5059

Review Date: Fri November 6, 2009

Would you recommend the product? Yes | Price you paid?: $50.00 | Rating: 6

Positive aspects of the product (pros):	tasty lamb burger and ouzotini
Cons:	loud and expensive

I got there at 7:00p on October 27, 2009, walked in, and asked if they had any room for 1 person with no ADR. They said "no problem", and I went right in with no wait whatsoever. No wonder, the restaurant was half full - at best.

They sat me at the far end of the restaurant in what seemed like a back room. It was incredibly noisy. Not so bad in the back room, but again, the restaurant was only half full, and I kept thinking "wow, how loud would this be if the restaurant was full and I was sitting in the main room by the kitchen?"

I ordered an Cat's Ouzotini. The server brought it over along with some multigrain bread and butter with Hawaiian black salt. The Ouzotini was good. You have to like Ouzo because the drink really had a strong anise flavor to it.

I ordered my meal and got the Spiro's Greek Salad and the lamb-burger. The server warned me the lamb burger was very spicy, but I decided to risk it and order it anyhow.

The salad was good. Nothing too special, and I wish it had some more greens with it. The block of feta cheese was tasty. I liked the burger. It was very spicy. I like spicy food so I thought it was fine, but it was surprisingly spicy for a burger. The fries it came with were delicious. They were sweet potato fries which I love! Yummy.

For dessert I got the standard baklava with pistachio gelato. I was really excited about the gelato. I love pistachio.

The baklava was also good. It tasted like a typical baklava I've had in many, many places. The pistachio gelato was also good, but it was a very small portion. I wish I could have had two scoops of it.

My bill with tip for a drink, salad, burger, dessert was very close to $50. I liked my meal. Everything I had tasted good. However, I did not really order exotic things off the menu. It was a Greek salad, a lamb burger, and baklava. I've had all those things before, and they tasted as expected. Except the burger which was very spicy. However, when I think about it I do think that $50 is really expensive for what I ordered. Plus, the burger was one of the cheaper entrees on the menu.

So that's my take on it. I enjoyed my meal, but thought it was expensive and nothing really that special.

IWISHFORDISNEY

Registered: January 2004
Posts: 5131

Review Date: Mon August 31, 2009

Would you recommend the product? Yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 8

Positive aspects of the product (pros):	Lively atmosphere Authenic Greek Food
Cons:	None

We went up to the parks for the day and had dinner at Kouzzina. We were just a walk up and they took us no problem. The restaurant was about 1/2 full when it opened at 5pm. I have to preface this by saying I am Greek and most people like Greek food prepared they way they are used to having it. About half the dishes I thought stood up to my own recipes the other half were good but not as good as my own.

Apps - Greek Salad which was very good. They could have put a bit more lettuce under the cucumbers, tomatoes and cheese. However you did get 4 huge pieces of very good ripe tomatoes, cucumber sliced leghthwise about 1/2 cucumber and a very large peice of good quality feta cheese. The dressing was very good homemade lemon vinegrette.

They dont offer dolmades seperate but I asked for them because I saw them listed in the combo platter. They were very agreeable and let me have 3 good sized dolmades for $4.99. They had a good taste but were served cold. I prefer my grapeleaves warm and with hamburger mixed with the rice filling. Also with egg lemon sauce and not just lemon sauce. However if you were not Greek you would probably like these if you didnt have your moms to compare them too.

Spanakopita (spinch pie). The crust was flaky and buttery, the filling could have used more feta and a little less mint. (Again just a personal preference) They do serve this with a tomatoe, onion, and olive salsa. This was fantastic esp with the bread they serve which was multigrain brown bread.

Calamari, was a huge portion and cooked perfectly. A little heavy on the salt for me but my DH liked it the way it was. The dipping sauces were a garlic yogurt and spicy/sweet yougurt. Sounded weird but was very good. I liked the garlic one best.

Entree we shared Pastitsio. Thankfully we shared this because it was huge and served in its own souffle type dish. This was cooked to perfection and tasted just how I was used to. The noodles were definately homemade, the cream sauce was light and mixed well with the layers of red and meat. I highly recommend trying this.

For dessert we had the Loukoumades or as I call them honeyballs. Little donut holes with honey sauce and sprinkled with cinnamon. A very nice treat and great to share.

Overall it was a good meal. If I had it to do over again. We would probably just order our own greek salads and share the pastitsio again. We left stuffed and had way to much left overs. So we give it a thumbs up. I probably would not order the dolmades or spanakopita again but that is just because how I am used to these being prepared and it varies from one houshold to the next as does say an Italians gravy.

My son had the pizza meal. They let him switch out his sides for a salad and icecream sundae dessert. He said the pizza was good. But had some of my food so he only ate half but it was a big pizza.

The atmosphere was lively as they were yelling Ooopaa and repeated said Yasou to you. Kind of made me giggle we dont talk that way at home. But they kept up with the theme of the place. They did accept our TIW card.