Yanni’s & Lemoni Lounge

We had a great time. The waitress was the best ever. I suggest the Bitter Truth cocktail, which isn’t bitter. The Aviation was good too. Lamb shank was big and tasty, scallop appetizer and fried calamari also was good. Pastitsio was okay. Overall it was a great experience, I didn’t see that it was anything like a pit of mediocre as a past review, in fact, the opening of the large garage doors let the evening air in and it was beautifully pleasant. Visually the place seems really nice as well.

Wow! What happened Yanni’s? I remember this place being pretty good, now it’s just a sad, dated pit of mediocre. I joined a friend of mine there for an afternoon lunch and was really disappointed. The service was horrible! The miserable bartender couldn’t put her phone down long enough to wait on us. I had to beg her for an order, so after the goat cheese app we gave up. Not worth it!
The place needs a major remodel, everything looks tired dirty and tacky. Too bad, it used to be fairly decent.

Nice atmosphere, good service, good food, but here is the critic for a high end restaurant:
1) hostess– dressed way to casually in a white t-​shirt with a mini skirt.
2) salad was a poor representation of a Greek salad with no olives, 1 rotten tomato, and barely enough feta cheese to see it.
3) 3 pieces of bread served to a table of two.
4) coconut cream pie was not homemade with a store bought crust for $ 7!
Disappointed

Once a month they have some nerd from the university come and talk science. Most recent topic was on New Mexican fish. The Greek food they have is great and pretty good selection of happy hour cocktails and beers. There’s a free raffle for prizes at the end.

Upscale, trendy restaurant. Food was good, but over priced even for a fancy place. Sure the dishes are quality and flavorful, absolutely no doubt there – you will enjoy it, but for a 22 buck entrée I want exceptional presentation or some sock knock off element to the dish.
I may bump the review purely on the fact that they served baklava on ice cream, which looked amazing. Baklava topped anything is a great idea!

Best Greek food in ABQ. We have been here on several occasions and have enjoyed the food each time. Their spanakopitas are great, flaming cheese is very tasty, and everything else is well above par. Their drinks and wine selection are great as well.

Wow… what a disappointment… ordered take out as a treat to myself during a busy day at work… used to be so good… something that I looked forward to. well, the avgolemono soup (my absolute favorite) was sooooooooo salty that my tongue feels like it is swelling in my mouth and I was not able to eat but about half of it. ordered the Greek salad with grilled chicken, which tasted like it was packaged grilled chicken, not grilled there and again, very salty… some of the lettuce was wilted… I am out $ 30 bucks and that meal was horrible… what ever happened to the Yanni’s of old? will never (make that NEVER) eat there again!

If they see you with a coupon in hand you WILL be treated as a second class person, AND THATS BY THE OWNER! She had us sit at the bar until a table became open, but we were forgotten about. And forget about decent service by the server, she didn’t even come back to check on us and we had to request refills on our water that she only filled one glass! I have another coupon but I think I’ll give it away and tell that recipient to keep the coupon in their pocket until they pay. I would not recommend this place.

The food was terrific, but we were extremely disappointed in the service. Because we were a large party, our waitress seemed to not care, perhaps since she would get a 20% tip anyway. The service was terribly slow, she had an «attitude», and was more focused on setting tables and working on other things than serving us. We had to get up and get ourselves more water among other issues. It was not busy, so that wasn’t the problem. The food was great. We’ve had great service in the past, when there was just two of us. Be careful, if you have a large party… or perhaps it was just this particular waitress.

Had the most amazing stake of my life and the largest shrimp cocktail I’ve ever seen. Amazing service and a stunning restaurant!

I’m a semi-​regular customer, and tonight was a good reason to be even less regular.
Good appetizer, the artichoke was delicious. The dinner salad, a «Greek» salad, was a lot of lettuce with 2 olives 1 cherry tomato and a few slivers of cucumber. My lamb, the special, was cooked to a charcoal briquette dryness and not really edible.
Also at the table, muscles, fishy smelling and scary taste. sent back. Stuffed peppers were good.
Nice waitress.
I’m in the neighborhood, so I’ll be back… But not soon, and only for drinks and appetizers.

Dear Yanni’s
The 80s called. They want their pagers and fax machines back.
Maybe it’s an Albuquerque thing but this restaurant is in the technological dark ages when it comes to dealing with money. I live in another state and wanted to treat my parents out to a nice dinner for my mother’s Birthday but was not able fly out to be there in person. Called to buy a gift certificate for them so they could just make a reservation, pick up their gift certificate and use it to pay for a nice dinner. The (very nice) gentlemen who answered the phone seemed as flummoxed by my request as if I had inquired as to the air-​speed velocity of an unladen swallow. He then proceeded to put me on hold repeatedly to confer with someone about this and then announced that I would need to FAX them a photo copy of my ID and credit card. Wha? First of all… FAX? Who uses fax machines anymore??? Secondly, what person in their right mind would comply with such a request? Also, have you ever been asked to show your ID when paying for a restaurant bill (outside of being carded for alcohol)?? How about when you pay for stuff over the phone? Ever had anyone ask you to FAX them your ID and CC??? I order pizza and take out frequently and pay for it over the phone with my CC… no one bats an eye.
I thought he must just be a junior employee so asked to speak with the manager and she tried to assure me that faxing them a photo copy of my ID and credit card was for MY protection! HAH! Seriously??? More like a great way to get your identity stolen! I pointed out to her that I was pretty sure they didn’t request to get photocopies of their customer’s IDs when they paid for dinner or even ask to look at them. I’m also betting they don’t demand that from people ordering takeout over the phone either and this is no different.
Whatever, their loss. I’ll take my business elsewhere. If you’re thinking of dining there… perhaps best to bring some beads for trading.

Great food, excellent atmosphere and fast, friendly service! Both times I’ve been here have been great experiences.

Has been a while since I had been to Yannis for a meal. I was seated on the patio and server spent most of the time in main room. Most of the time glasses were empty. As for the food the crab cake had so much Lemon in the sauce you could not taste the crab. The lobster and pasta had two small pieces of lobster and sauce lacked salt. Overall not what I remembered it to be.

I’ve never written a review before because my experiences at restaurants have always been amazing. This place is horrible. It all started with the parking Nazi. That’s enough to make you stay away. The service was horrible. I have never been treated with such disrespect before in my life. Unless you want to be treated like crap, stay away. The food was ok. Go somewhere else. It’s Nob Hill, there are plenty of other places to eat with amazing ambiance and service.

The food is not too bad, but I was very surprised when I received french bread and olive oil, and no pita bread with my Chicken Souvlaki… The chicken was well seasoned and cooked, and the tzatziki sauce was very good too, but the veggies were bland and soggy. Definitely not what I was expecting for the $ 15 price tag

What happened to this place ?? Stopped in on the night of summerfest, knew they would be busy … Bartender was super friendly (I’m hoping they don’t have to wear those stupid blue toga things they had on all the time, curiosity might drag me back here to see) we ordered the «summerfest special» margarita, a pre-​made mediocre one at that for ten bucks ! Kidding me! Ugh and an argh… The place just looks dumpy now … Filthy walls, filthy ottoman (why is that there anyhow) pint glasses on the floor, broken wine glasses at patrons table (while they are still sitting there). For the love of us old yannis regulars, give this restaurant back to your ex-​husband and let him run it right…

The food was just ok. Way too expensive for how it tasted! Everyone at our table that ordered drinks from the bars was disappointed. Our waitress took forever to take our order. After the food came she never once checked on us. And then had the audacity to charge us a 20% tip. She really didn’t deserve it. The place is clean which was nice. The crab dip was good. Other than that I wouldn’t return.

Food was great, but was a little disappointed in the service. We got there early because we were on our way to a concert. We were one of four tables seated, and they were fully staffed for the dinner rush (7 wait staff plus 2 bartenders). Most of the staff was lounging around chatting with each other while we had to flag down our waitress twice for drink refills. We will likely be back because the food was so good, hopefully we get better service next time.

Tasty. Muy Tasty.
We landed were hungry and my aunt took us to Yannis. Here I am looking for a new Mexican cuisine and we go to a Greek restaurant. Boy were we surprised I have the rack of lamb chops over salad with cucumbers and watermelon and the spicy chili mashed potatoes it was amazing. She had these stuffed poblano chile which was amazing with quinoa and god knows what else was in there. The bread was so fresh and the service was really friendly and fast. I highly recommend it and would absolutely plan to be back.

Enjoyed a lovely Sunday afternoon brunch there this past weekend. We split a bottle of Retsina, just because it seemed the right thing to do and we do enjoy it.
Very good crusty French bread with olive oil and herb seasoning to dunk it started it all off. Good fried calamari with an herb-​infused breading on top of a puddle of horseradish red sauce (with extra red pepper in it and lemon) and a nice hummus with veggies and pita made the brief wait for our main courses very pleasant. Mine was a gyros sandwich with a good thick tzatziki, hers a beautifully crafted dish of tomatoes, mozzarella, heirloom tomato slices, and grilled scallops, topped with lightly fried onion strings She called it «the Tower of Power». I love a place that is reasonably priced but takes care to present quality ingredients attractively. That said, the gyros meat slices were good but not five-​star good– have had better. Still a very satisfactory offering if Greek cuisine leads you to street-​type food.
Attentive but inobtrusive service and a lovely spot by the open bay onto the Nob Hill Central Ave street scene passing by. Will definitely go back.

When I visit Albuquerque this is one of my favorite places to go. This last time I got the veggie platter. I loved everything that came with it. Even got a side of garlic mashed potatoes. My only feedback would be that with the Spanikopita there should be tzadiki (sp?). It just goes with it in my opinion, and to not have it was disappointing. I did ask for a side… but really it should come with it. Other than that though the food was awesome and the service was as well. This is one of my favorite places in Albuquerque. :)

Actually visited the Lemoni Lounge portion of the restaurant. Awesome live music tonight ! Service was good but there was some confusion on the happy hour — arrived at 8pm and when 930 arrived ordered a second round based on the happy hour mentioned to us by our server to find out our drinks weren’t happy hour when we got the bill… Lesson learned — ask what specific drinks are covered.

So I had dinner here on a Saturday night and it wasn’t that crowded. Our waitress was very personable and the atmosphere felt legit. I had the halibut kabob which came with wild rice and wilted spinach. The halibut was perfectly cooked and seasoned. The rice was good, but a little too lemon-​y. The spinach was absolutely delicious. Overall, I had an awesome experience here and I would come again any time.