Cold winters night & hubby had booked a table for 2, well in advance, to celebrate my birthday.
Turn up and it was so, so loud & we were offered a seat by the full height freezing windows by the cold entrance, in noisiest part of restaurant. Asked for something quieter and warmer - offered outside seating with the smokers (we don't smoke) on high chairs (dangerous for recovering shattered knee!).
So sit where we were offered and never took our winter coats off.
Hadn't even looked at menu when a waiter bought something to table. Too loud to hear him so after he walked away I gave it a poke, licked my finger and tasted it. Then he returns, takes it off our table, puts it on table behind us. Sorry people but you got my fingerprint and my spit :(
Ordered drinks & entrees. Drinks & pita bread turn up. We wait & wait, then corn fritters come. We wait & wait & wait, and waitress comes to remove untouched dishes but we say "don't do that, we are waiting for the meatballs & chicken skewers" Oh says she and scurries off.
We know the meatballs & chicken skewers had been sitting all that time somewhere because they were served stone cold! The 3 meatballs were flavourless & chewy & I would presume pre-made & reheated (what chef manages to embarrass themselves making chewy meatballs!!!), the 3 corn fritters were bland & boring, the garlic pita may have had a piece of garlic waved over it, and the 2 chicken skewers were gristly scraps of over-cooked chicken on mashed potato. We did complain & we weren't charged for the inedible chicken.
Hubby & I have spent quite a bit of time in beautiful Greece. This is not Greek or even 'greek-inspired' food. No flavour, no delicious aroma!
So we finished our drinks and left to find a lovely establishment further down the road and enjoyed divine food there.
Speaking to others about our experience and the comments are all the same - you don't go to Gerome for the food, you go for the atmosphere! You go to be seen and to be with those who want to be seen.
Sorry, no, I go to a restaurant for good food with hopefully good service. Gerome had neither.