Opa! Santa Clara - Santa Clara, California

Wook Chung

Opa! has so much potential to be amazing but falls short of the best Greek / Mediterranean cuisines. The benchmark for any Greek joint is obviously their lamb gyros, humus and/or dips and lamb/beef skewers. Opa! get's a B / B+ for most of them, although they are presented well in a clean, modern manner.

The gyro meat just wasn't soft enough. I feel the ingredients weren't as fresh or perhaps they were cooked long ago. The dip we had, some combination of eggplant and olives and other spices, was bland and uneventful at best. Just felt like a mush. The gyro fries were again tainted by the not-so soft and flavored gyro meat. Fortunately, my beef souvlaki was quite good and so was the bhaklava.

So the food was meh, the atmosphere was great though, but what tilted the evening to negative was the service. The restaurant was about half full but our server was no where to be found, even with desperate efforts. It was almost as if we weren't part of his table set and was doing us a favor by taking orders.

I'm super disappointed that Opa! turned out this way. Perhaps it's only this new Santa Clara Square branch. Won't be returning to this one for sure unless absolutely necessary.

abhinav deep

Good food, good ambience and ok service. The Falafel was great, soft on the inside cap on the outside with a tangy dip. Lemon chicken with Orzo was good overall, though the chicken could do with some more flavour. Gyro chicken also needed a bit more flavour. The chips were nice and crisp though. Sangria was perfect
Overall the portion sizes were generous and the drinks were nice.

Wei-Ai Tai

Somewhat disappointed with the experience. Service was okay at the beginning, but as they got busy, the service went downhill very quickly. Apparently our waiter was also the bartender, so it took over 30 minutes just to get the bill. Food was nothing special, as the gyro was over cooked and the Greek nachos over-hyped. Parking situation was also frustrating in a busy plaza. Not sure if I will come back.

MAHESH DIXIT

We went here for a party for 20. Starters were top notch possibly the best Pita bread and hummus variety you can imagine. Pita specially were fluffy warm. Falafal was top class. Good choice of food for vegetarians. Main course for Veg was just OK, a little bit dry pilaf and skewer, I should have stuck to Pita and Falafal wraps..overall delicious starters and deserts were nice too

Sun Sun

Waste of money. I paid $26 total price to these gyro with a lot of big size onions, tomatoes and burnt chicken.
Even fast would restaurants put some effort to make food look and taste bigger.
I wouldn’t recommend this place. Rip off.

Sarah Biggs

The service was a little slow. Fries and extra pita took a long time to come out even though they're weren't many in the restaurant. But the food was delicious!

Myrna Johnson

Greek food restaurant was decent. My salad was good. Server was nice but didn’t come back for quite a while. Also I got charged for two sodas and the server didn’t note that they charged for refills. Might have just double charged. Didn’t notice it til I looked later. Kind of dark inside. Street and lot parking is a challenge in that mall area.

teadrinker

Made a reservation for team lunch. We were seated promptly when we checked in. We opted for outdoor seatings. It looks like this place were used for business or team lunch.

Service was attentive. Drinks were refilled when almost empty. Orders were taken at the right time. Food came out at the appropriate time.

Pita bread on the dip sampler were toasted, soft, and yummy. We all enjoyed our entrees.

It is a great place for company team lunch.