Cafe Santorini

Reviews

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  Alya Kurt

  Nov 5, 2025
  5.0
  Expeeeensive!! But SO WORTH IT! Their steaks IS THE BEST! The sauce, how great the meat was cooked…. It’s unreal. But it is expensive ~50$. For appetizers I definitely recommend their hummus - so good. Their seafood linguine was great as well. Chicken kebap was a small portion and it was decent. The environment is chic so be sure to dress up a bit :) I would definitely go here again and recommend the place :D
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  Alex Tehrani

  Nov 2, 2025
  5.0
  This is our second time going here is great as always great service The owner is very respectful very nice and all over everything was perfect Thank you guys 🙏❤️
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  Sevan Aratounians

  Nov 2, 2025
  1.0
  We went for my wife’s birthday. Service was poor. They barely stopped by our table. Food was very delayed. We complained but the reason for the delay was that there was a large table in a different area. However people around us got their food way before us even though they got there after us. Food was hit or miss. My wife’s dish, the Branzino, was way over salted and not edible. Some of the other dishes were okay and others were not good.
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  Jessie Roske

  Oct 24, 2025
  5.0
  Visiting Pasadena and found this gem in Old Pasadena. Balcony was very cool, took a star off on atmosphere because the music was annoyingly similar driving bass and a little too loud. Excellent babaganoush, nice drinks, very attentive service.
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  Chat Sarmiento-Steinwald

  Oct 8, 2025
  4.0
  Stop by here to have a quick dinner after my appointment in Pasadena. I basically googled the place and checked it on open table then booked it. It was on a second level which I wasn’t expecting, but not a problem at all, and I was received well by the receptionist. She offered if I wanted the Patio, but since I was alone, I opted for the inside table, which was fine because it was more quiet. Steffi, the table server was super nice in spite of being very busy serving the patio area as well. I had the grilled octopus for my starter, and I’m so glad it was one of the best octopus I’ve ever had. For Dr the portion was pretty generous so I ended up just ordering the Mediterranean salad. It was really good. But I needed some kind of bread to eat those lemony tangy flavors of both the octopus and the salad, and so I asked Steffi for some bread I guess just to lessen the acidity. She responded sure you can have some, but we charge for it. And at that point, I didn’t care cause my food was too tangy to be eaten by itself. I figured for three bucks I can pay for bread that used to be a gratis in most restaurants I go to. And I’m not a person that would nickel and dime everything but because it kind of is weird to be paying for bread in a restaurant like this place. I made sure I checked how much they charged the bread that they served me. Much to my surprise I was charged six dollars for the bread. You’ll be the judge if it’s truly worth the six dollars. I took a picture of the bread in here. Ambience was good and quiet because I was inside there was only one other table with a couple eating next to me. I looked outside on the patio. It was almost full, and the ambience was really nice also as well. There is paid public parking across the street which was $10 for me for the whole time I ate. Would I go back there? Probably will if I will not be alone because I felt I wasted so much by dining alone. For example, I wasted 4 slices of the bread because I only ate two slices, and barely finished half of the big bottle of the Pellegrino sparkling water which I wish I was told they only had one large bottle being that I was alone.

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