Tholos Restaurant - Collingwood

We were very excited to spend our New Year Eve dinner at Tholos Greek restaurant but what a disappointment!!!!. We were here last year 2021 and decides to come back for the same first seating like last year . Menu completely changed! No appetizers at all , no even bread !!! Even if you pay for it !’ That is the minimum you can expect bread !!!. My teenage kids had to get kids menu because the menu was not what they were expecting ! No calamari’s , no chicken souvlaki’ nothing you can expect from a Greek restaurant. We spent over $450 for 5 people with 3 kids menu because of no choice.. and not even an apology form the manager !!! Plus my husband ordered chicken for his entree and it was raw .. it was replaced for a sword fish and hit charged ‘ Nothing was honoured by the restaurant after this big disappointment no even dessert ..! Not a good experience for the last dinner of the year just a big bill !!! :

Who did everything right but even she couldn’t Perform the miracles that would have been necessary about the dreadful, poor quality, pre cooked and cold, UNAUTHENTIC! Greek food my sisters and I had last night. I live in Collingwood and had been to this restaurant several times in the past, admittedly pre Covid, and had only excellent memories so when my visiting sisters said they loved the idea of authentic Greek food more than all of the other choices we had in The Village, that’s where we decided to go and we all share the same opinion about our experience. We had decided to share four “appetizer” dishes, none of which were under $20 including a very drab very ordinary flavourless salad and the other 3 appetizers were between $24 and $28, Three of which should have been served hot and freshly prepared. Of the four dishes the only one that was only sort of OK and prepared freshly was the deep fried calamari and even at that it was nothing special and was served with very thick tsatsiki which Had only the merest teensiest hint of any cucumber or garlic In other words thick Greek yoghurt and no other dips for the calamari. Though we had been asked how we wanted the loin lamb chops, they came out way too well done, scrawny and tough. Jesse got us a new order and even though these had been supposedly freshly cooked they had no flavour and the meat was again very poor quality lamb tough, thin, sinewy and chewy, And just very poor quality and cut. When I had had them a couple years ago they were nice thick thick perfect and perfectly cooked little lamb lollypops, i.e., that is, right off of a rack of lamb and all meat, no gristle or fat! The grilled octopus came with two reasonably generous sized tentacles, rather over cooked but cold when we got it, the first one of which was so tough it was hard to chew, the second one underneath when we got into it we found was actually much more tender and flavourful but again served cold even though it’s advertised as “grilled octopus” Which anyone would assume is a hot dish. The Greek salad was mostly Romain lettuce with barely a trace of onion or cucumber and for that matter the tomato and feta cheese was not exactly generous relative to the size of the salad and the amount of lettuce, either. also the dressing which was OK with simply drizzled on the top leaves we had to ask for more dressing just so that all that lettuce might have some flavour! And it came with no Kalamata olives at all and Jesse very kindly got a few for us when we mentioned it. Of course, we were hungry and managed to make our way through the majority of it, but only very grudgingly! HORRIBLE and disappointing in the extreme. OH! And a supposedly Greek authentic restaurant had as it’s special last night English style fish and chips go figure.

My husband ordered the arctic char and loved it. I ordered the Caesar salad and it was drenched in a thick dressing. I have never had a Caesar salad with so much dressing before. In hindsight, I should have asked for the dressing on the side. At the end of the meal, I told the waitress I could not eat it because the salad was soaked in dressing. She was a wonderful waitress (Nicole) and I could not blame her. She removed the salad from the bill which was most appreciated. Please think about the amount of dressing you are putting on your salads. Absolutely overkill!

The food was awesome, the ambiance was great. The baklava was one of the top 3 deserts I’ve ever had. The best though was our server, David. We were having a not so great evening one restaurant server never showed up and our second restaurant was booked so couldn’t seat us. David changed the entire evening. He was funny and charming kids loved him and so did my wife and I.

It is not everyday that I’ve had a meal where there was no detail that wasn’t perfect. This was one. The service was amazing. Big shout out to Jess for taking such good care of us. The food we ordered was perfectly prepared and tasted fantastic. Every aspect of our meal from drinks to desert was A1. I highly recommend the Crème Brûlée. We will be back her next time we are here.