Charms Grill & Drink

What a great restaurant — love the greek salad, skirt steak and greek chicken. The fish is also delicious. The owner is so friendly and accommodating. Service is really good. I recommend you try it. It’s nice to visit a «local» restaurant that has a welcoming atmosphere.

I just got home from having dinner at Charms. I have been there at least twice before. It is so nice to eat at a restaurant that serves you a full course meal at reasonable prices, high quality food and pleasant servers. My husband had the Greek skirt steak which is as big as the platter it is served on. This was served with fresh stalks of broccoli and your choice of potato. It is served with soup or salad. I has the chicken kebob which I order everywhere and this is one of the best. It was served on a platter with rice and potatoes. I had the salad and it was fresh and the dressing was delicious. A piping hot loaf of crusty bread was also served. This place is like being at a Supper club in Door County. I love the menu choices, the homeyness, and the friendliness of the staff. I highly recommend this place for a square and plentiful meal served by cheerful people who really seem happy when you enjoy your food. Kudos to an establishment that tries and succeeds. Even the ice tea was good with 2 nice big lemon wedges!

I was really disappointed in this restaurant. I should have known by the empty parking lot that this place was going to be a letdown. But Unilocalers gave this place an overall 4 star rating, so we decided to try it anyways.
We started with an order of fried calamari. It was definitely frozen calamari thrown in a deep fryer. It was tough and chewy. We didn’t finish it. One of the waitresses asked if we wanted it packed up and we said no. She asked if we didn’t like it and we told her not really she said oh and walked away.
The rest of our meal was pretty disappointing as well. The French onion soup was pretty tasteless and so was my Philly cheese steak sandwich.

DISGUSTING! the entry way smells like smoke and so do the bathrooms. My Greek salad looked and tasted like it was purchased from McDonalds and my husband’s steak was well done when he requested medium.
The only thing that was great is the service. From the waitress to the owner to the helpers were exceptionally nice and accommodating but they need to get some new cooks. Never coming back

There’s something for everyone on the menu. I ordered the Greek salad. It was one of the freshest I’ve ever had. Pleasant atmosphere. Great service. I will be back.

We had a lovely dinner. The service was great; the owner attentive and friendly. The food was great! I had the Charms chicken and my husband had a steak. Nice evening out! They also gave a nice outside eating area.

Service was sweet and very friendly, but extremely slow. The food was lacking in seasoning and fairly tasteless. Sad. Really wanted to like this place.

On a whim tonight and checked out this place. Food was so good!!! Had chicken kabobs and they were so delicious!!! We also go to meet the owner who was the biggest sweet heart ever!!! Please please check this place out

Went here for the first time and it was incredible! Had the Greek style skirt steak and was quite impressed. Service was great. Definitely will go back!

2^nd time.
Will be the last
Waitress took drink order.
Never showed herself at the table again
Bartender took drink order
Got drinks
Ordered food
Mac and cheese came 10 minutes before lunch. Waitress was asked to keep it warm in kitchen. She actually said she wasn’t able to
Food took another 20 minutes (one other table filled at the time)
Not tasty, not fresh or hot
Not a place we’ll come back to

Awesome homey small town restaurant with some big time flavors! The owner Steve is so gracious and friendly and truly appreciates your business ! The waitresses are so nice and the and you are treated like family !! The charms chicken is outstanding ! Been there twice this week for it already! It’s so moist you can cut it with just a fork! The Food is hot and fresh ! Skirt steak is outstanding too!
Thank you Steve for being such a gracious host!

So sorry to do this review. This place looks way better than it cooks. Our meals seem like mere cafeteria chow than meals from the past owners of this place. Really, I thought everything that they brought us was frozen just moments before. Do NOT try their calamari! it was 90% breading like something you’d buy in a freezer case of a supermarket. Needless to say, we will never be back. Who knows, maybe they’ll get better?

Just got back from my first trip to Charms. I’m in the area often for work and was looking for a new place and picked Charms based on Unilocal reviews.
What a find. Got there fairly early (local time) and it was not very crowded. Everyone was very friendly and helpful. Our server (Eva?) was fantastic. Explained specials, answered all of our questions, was very attentive.
Our food was very good. Both the broccoli soup and salad were very good. Greek vinaigrette dressing was spot on. Our entrees were excellent — a fish special and the chicken kabob.
Overall, a great experience. I plan on going back next time I’m in the area.

DW and I decided to give Charms a try tonight. Overall pretty good. We had the fish special Grecian style with salad or soup, veg and potato. Very good tasting and a pretty good value. Wife liked her salad but my onion soup was very bland. That and a $ 6 beer were my only complaints. Was a little noisy as others stated, but that didn’t bother me much. Service was very friendly and attentive. Nice menu selection — something for everyone. Overall a nice upgrade from Angelo’s and Gugg’s.

Going crazy from cabin-​fever on a frigid Friday last week, my girlfriend Lisa and I decided to check out the new (ish) «Charms» not too far from her condo. We arrived around 6pm, hung up our coats, easily found a couple of seats at the lengthy L-​shaped bar for a warm-​up wine, and I began to explore the place in more detail.
First, it had my Three Must-​Haves for any successful venue (LTS): soft Lighting, a warm interior Temperature (just right!), and a relaxing Sound level, between friendly conversations at the bar and soothing background music. Although there were a couple of flat-​screens above the backbar, I was happy to notice the sound was off. We ordered two varieties of the house wine, which was a perfectly respectable Robert Mondavi Woodbridge, with what I consider by today’s standards to be «a generous pour.»
The interior is cozy, with a variety of tables and booths, and although they were almost entirely occupied, Charms did not feel crowded or «too busy,» and you know what that’s like when you feel packed in like sardines, with the servers whizzing around just oozing speed and stress! When we were ready, we took our places at a booth near the window. Checking out the menu, I realized for the first time that Charms boasts a definite Greek influence; I also thought the prices were quite fair.
I ordered the TWO 8-​oz. Pork Chop Dinner (Greek Style) with applesauce, salad, veggie and baked potato… and all for just $ 14.99? Wow! Lisa opted for the Greek Style Grilled Skirt Steak with soup instead of salad (same sides) for $ 18.99. Then she spotted another diner digging into a French Onion Soup, and upgraded hers to that for just a buck-​fifty extra. (Be sure to check out my photos I’ll be posting after this review… they say it all!)
Lisa, a huge fan of French Onion Soup, was in love with Charms’ offering (and the crusty bread we received), saying it was the BEST FR Soup she has EVER had in her life… and it was not too salty, as many of them can be. (Since she was in France last fall, and Greece 2 years earlier, I think that speaks volumes!) Once her skirt steak arrived, she was astonished at how HUGE it was… and delicious, with roasted potatoes and tender broccoli and carrots on the side. I tasted it too and we both loved it.
My pork chops looked smashing (see photos), but when I tasted the first few bites, unfortunately, they seemed much too dry. Lisa did a back-​up taste and totally agreed. Our very attentive server, Ava (who originates from Crete), whisked them away to be replaced… and within a minute or two, the owner, Steve, visited our booth, bent down on one knee to be at our eye level, and apologized in a very genuine way. I said that I know (as we all do) that sometimes when a chef is so busy, something minor like this can happen… a slight overcooking on a tender pork chop. I also know (as we all do) that often the restaurant staff or manager may make a feeble attempt to take something off your bill, or replace a portion of your meal somewhat grudgingly, making you feel invisible when it is re-​served to you. Not here! Steve’s attitude was SO heartfelt, and he even sent both Lisa and me a fresh glass of wine on the house. The new pork chop duo was fantastic! Tender, moist, and definitely becoming 2 more lunches in addition to my dinner! Thanks, Steve, for being so caring, attentive and truly gracious.
Bottom line: This place ROCKS! The prices are so fair, the portions are monstrous, they click off all 3 items on everyone’s Atmosphere List, the service is wonderful, and the owner really, truly cares. It doesn’t get any better than this overall, peeps! In a word… Charms is simply charming! I hope to bump into you there soon!

Lie this place, excellent service, nice owner, friendly. Wish they would make the salad dressings in house.

We love it the owner knows how to treat customers the servers can’t do enough for you we’ve been there a couple of times with our friends they also love it each time we had dinner the food was outstanding if I wasn’t always on a diet I would ask them to give me a refill on what I had

This little neighborhood joint tries very hard but just doesn’t quite make the grade. They’ve done a lot to fix this little place by making it cozier and very friendly. But ultimately it all rests on the food and Charms is lacking. A much better menu than in previous iterations but the taste tends to the bland. We’ve been three times now and only the chicken Marsala was notable for its flavor. Last night we had the skirt steak sandwich which was incredibly tough and the Greek chicken. Too bad it came with both rice and potato along with the standard carrots and broccoli. It was just meh… nothing worth bringing home and frankly all those starches piled on just makes me wonder why?
We really want to love this place but they need to fix the food. More taste please!
I will state their prices are very reasonable and the service is great. Just need to tinker in the kitchen!

The atmosphere is very intimate. 6 beers on tap. One of the beers is Blue Moon, unfortunately they had no oranges. Good view of the tvs. The bathroom is cold. Good selection of liquors.
I had the mozzarella sticks and the jalepeño poppers were delicious, and not too hot that would burn the mouth, so that was nice. They were 6.99 each, not crazy expensive for me.
Scott the bartender was very accommodating and knowledgeable about the menu.

Ribeye was good, reasonably priced
And friendly atmosphere.
Good local spot to relax and have a drink at the end of the day!