Khoury’s Mediterranean Island

Halfway new to the dining duo (Sheila had been once long ago), Khoury’s Mediterranean Island is conveniently located for a semi-quick lunch. Especially since it turned out that they offered a lunch buffet – no waiting on a meal, just step up to the buffet line.

While we both have a deep-seated aversion to Chinese or Indian buffets, we really appreciate them in other ethnic places where most of the food is unfamiliar – it’s nice to be able to try many things and see what we like. The disadvantage of them is that most places don’t have signs next to the dishes so we end up having no idea what we’re eating, so there tends to be a lot of comments like “you’ve got to try that chicken stuff.” Our food ignorance is glaring.

But! Khoury’s was tasty enough to make us want to see if we can’t become a little more Greek-food-savvy, if only to know what we want more of for next time.

Our absolute favorite was, um, chicken stuff. Very very tasty chunks of chicken that were flavorful and tender and all around fantastic. They tasted somewhat grilled to Sheila, who might have been imagining it. She certainly wouldn’t want to make any significant bets on that claim.

The gyro meat was very good, and there was plenty of yummy garlicky sauce to go along with it. The rice was fine, as was the pita bread. There were little pastries set out for dessert, although neither of us tried them. We’re not huge fans of baklava & that’s what it looked like. Now if they’d been chocolate that would have been a different matter.

The atmosphere is fine, nothing too special or exciting but we weren’t really looking for either for a workday lunch. Service was quick although apparently you only get one drink refill because our water glasses sat empty for the last 20 minutes we were there. Boo to that. And for once Jennifer is the one with the quibble – her booth seat had apparently seen better days and had a sprung spring that (uhhh, how shall we say this delicately) let her know it was there. If you know what we’re saying.

The price was very reasonable for the assortment of food. We’d love to go back, preferably with dining companions who actually know something about Greek food and can tell us what we’re eating, so we can identify it more than as “stuff.” Like that fantastically wonderful chicken stuff.

Food ***
Atmosphere **
Service **
Overall **1/2

Khoury’s Mediterranean Island
1850 E 62nd St (a.k.a. Broad Ripple Ave)