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Taverna Agora is located in a free-standing building on Glenwood Avenue in North Raleigh across from the Pleasant Valley shopping center. The parent company of Taverna Agora, LM Restaurants, also owns the Carolina Ale House chain.
The New Yorker – Great Greek meal. Very fresh. Great spinach pie. Salad was excellent. Fresh traditional Greek salad without lettuce. Salad included fresh tomatoes, cucumbers, feta etc. Warm bread with great lemon/olive oil dip. Lamb shank was ridiculous– so tender, fell right off the bone. Taverna Agora was not as I expected. I thought it was going to be more like what I’m used too-such as Gyro / Gyro on top of Greek salad with yogurt sauce. All in all, I was pleasantly surprised.
The Raleigh-ite – Taverna Agora has a great atmosphere, especially outside. They have a wonderful porch with white lights, lots of flowers and a fountain (you can kind of see Glenwood Ave from the porch, but you can probably block it out or maybe it’s what you like!) . The salad and spinach pie appetizer were great, but I didn’t love the chicken with orzo. It had lots of tomatoes, and lots of orzo, a small amount of chicken and it tasted too much like spaghetti for me to enjoy it. The lemon/olive oil bread dip was phenomenal. I will definitely be back though for the lovely porch and terrific salad.
7/25/2009- We ordered: 2 glasses of Riesling, 1 Diet Coke, Spinach Pie Appetizer, Village Salad, Chicken with Orzo, Braised Lamb Shank. Total: $67.18
Do over? We will be back to Taverna Agora especially if we are in the North Raleigh-Glenwood Ave area.
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