Laterna Restaurant

Very good service and excellent Greek food. We have meat and fish selections and everything was cooked perfectly and tasted delicious. The live music is a great. Will be back.

Although the food was good. I have never paid $ 40 for whole bronzino. I have dined at some of the finest Greek restaurants in Manhattan and Astoria… my mistake for not asking, given menu stated market price. Martini … $ 14… Greek salad appetizer… Diner quality… Restaurant empty… with so many fabulous Greek restaurants … I would not make special trip there… Maria’s a few blocks down, better quality service and price … !

Just went to Laterna and was given excellent service ad super fresh and delicious food. It may have also been that I was extremely hungry but can’t say anything but great things about the salad, clams, and chicken my husband and I ate.

I have been to Laterna for post baptism festivities twice.
The food is always delicious and the service is friendly and efficient.
I had a delicious meal there yesterday. We shared calamari (both grilled and fried) delicious Greek salad and had spanikopita for my main meal. Their shrimp dishes looked amazing, I hope to try that in the future.
Everything was delicious and Eleftheria and her family make you feel very welcome. Coffee was excellent.
They also offer live Greek music during certain hours which is always enjoyable.
I hope to return very soon!

Whether you’re in the mood for some authentic Greek food and live music or need a venue to book a special event Laterna is a great option. The restaurant is family owned and dedicated to customer service; they make me feel very comfortable every time I’m there. Always have a great experience at Laterna.

We booked 60^th birthday party for my wife in Aug.2015 for 60 people. I had a stroke in mid July. had to change to Oct 2015 for 40 people. The owner husband and his wife gave us no problem. They are so sweet and nice. We all had great time, the food was excellent, owner gave our party extra time 5 to 11:30 pm, and the servers was at the the top of they profession. We love this place. I’m so happy w/​Laterna. Sorry it took me so long to write this review I’m still recovering from my stroke. Thank you so Much for everything. BLESS YOU FOR YOUR KINDNESS AND UNDERSTANDING. I can not wait to come back.
THE CHINS

Great entertainment! Variety was terrific by the four singers! I will come back to see them. They were all amazing.
Place is clean, service was great, staff is friendly.
Food was terrible, probably the worst Greek food I ever had.
I had great time because the service and entertainment, I would never go back to eat, just to go for drinks.
Pricy food– terrible, no taste
Improve your food and I will give you 5 starts.

The place is a bit odd. We visited tonight and a few of the menu items were not available. These included porgy, giouvetsi, and bakaliaros. Huh? They ran out of these three items? The wine/​liquor was priced sky high. Bottle premiums were in the 600%-1000% markup range. Who does that? Two of the band members were smoking while playing. I’m not sure whether Laterna has a cabaret license but it is not appropriate to be smoking and letting the smoke waft towards the customers. The big drawback is that we were offered coffee and a few fruit slices were placed on the table. There was no dessert and there is no dessert menu. Expect to pay $ 60 pp with a shared appetizer, an entrée, wine, and no dessert. The place was more than half empty on a Saturday night. You’ll know why. On the plus side, the entrees were tasty. The moussaka was quite good and the bronzini was excellent. The surf and turf, by the way, is spelled surf turk (yes, turk) on the online menu. I’m all for cooking up a Turk but this is not a good typo to have in a Greek restaurant.

The food was pretty good, but the band is way too loud. I was there for a birthday celebration, and they started playing music from the minute guests arrived until we left at 2 am. It was difficult to socialize with other guests because we kept shouting at each other over the music. There were several children there and the volume made it unenjoyable for them. Also, dinner was served at 11 pm — 3 hours after the party started. Finally, the room is shared with other people celebrating occasions, for instance, another party, celebrating a christening, sat up against the windows and the only thing that separated us from them was a railing, so one band for both parties. The clincher — our party paused for a few minutes while the people celebrating the christening made a speech in front of their cake. We all sat there listening to a stranger saying a few nice words about her child. The tables turned when our party brought in a belly dancer and the other party had the pleasure of enjoying the entertainment they didn’t pay for! To top that, the restaurant sat regular clients up against the side wall in the same room!!! In summary, we shared one room with another party and strangers off the street listening to a persistent band that played extremely loud music.

I had my engagement party here and was promised a few american songs as well as english songs since my wife to be is italian. They played all Greek music except for 1 song that was in Spanish. I asked them continuously to play american songs because her family was unhappy, he kept telling me okay but nothing changed. The food was good and the place was nice but it was expensive about $ 60 per person before taxes and gratuity. I wouldn’t recommend doing business with them because I wouldn’t trust them with a night that is important. He lied to my face all night and caused several disagreements between me and my fiancé.
P.S after the party we stayed to pack up some gifts and my mother misplaced her phone and asked the waiter if he saw the phone while they where taking off the linens and he said no and that was the end of it. A couple of seconds later he went in the kitchen and started yelling that we where accusing him of stealing her phone even though she only asked him if he saw it. These people are very rude!
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Came here for a Wedding Rehearsal Dinner with about 30−40+ people. The space was perfect and even the ambiance of the band playing in the background. The band was a bit loud, but that was the point right?
Regardless, they only had one guy for our entire section which in my opinion is a 2 – 3 person job. He did his best and refilled our water as fast as humanly possible. HOWEVER, then the bottom fell out. There was some mix-​up in the kitchen — I am honestly not sure what happened, but our food did not come out for over 2 hours. Now, we had a fixed menu (Chicken, Eggplant, Salmon, or Steak) so they knew what to expect. It was not like we asked for custom dishes for each person.
The food was superb, and honestly there are no complaints — maybe it had a TAD bit too much butter for my tastes. I felt bad because by the time they brought the food (after lots of complaining from the wedding party) people were either a) not hungry b) irritable or c) had already left
Yikes… I honestly would go back for the food. They just need to plan a little better for big groups. Sigh.

I went there on a Wednesday night, including our table only 3 tables, the waiting between order, food, getting my check was all very long. the chicken lemon soup I ordered was very good, the baby lamb chop was dry and no taste, all the seafood are frozen seafood not fresh. its not all that good like the other people said.

Enjoyed a terrific meal. Very good or NY Greek dining. A close family friend is Greek so I’ve enjoyed the cuisine for m entire life. If I can eat at their home, this would be next choice. And the price was terrific as well. 3 adults for $ 80

The food gets five stars, the service however deserves one. My boyfriend and I loved the clams stuffed with crabmeat and the hot grilled pita. Our entrees were delicious as well, but being that we were the only people in the restaurant our service was by far the worst I’ve ever experienced. Our waiter didn’t say one word to us, never asked if we’d like another glass of wine, never asked how our food was and was not attentive at all. So, delicious hot Greek food, horrible service.

Went Saturday afternoon 6÷25÷11. Both inside rooms had parties going on and, since it was a gorgeous afternoon, we opted to eat on the patio outside. What a beautiful time we had. Our waiter was attentive and considerate. The grilled shrimp were perfection, the Greek salad as fresh as it could be, and my friends’ shrimp scampi and lamb kabob, delicious. My boyfriend ordered something (I knew he would not like because it had cheese on it), but insisted that was what he wanted. Then, of course, he did not like it. Our waiter graciously said not to worry and what else would he like to order? It did not appear on the bill. We ordered baklava for dessert, and it was outrageous, as well as huge! We all took half home for a midnight snack. We were discussing the honey drizzeled over the baklava, and our waiter explained that the sauce was not honey at all, as we had thought, but rather caramelized suger, water, cinnamon, and orange rind. Who would’ve thought? Prices were slightly high for the area, but the quality, service and surroundings were worth the extra couple of bucks per person. Fresh, fresh, fresh! go and enjoy.

There is no shortage of good Greek restaurants in northeast Queens and Laterna is among the best. There is a large room which, on weekends, is often booked for a private party, and a beautiful, quieter, more intimate smaller room.
Laterna offers an extensive menu with both Greek and American specialties. I had a NY Sirloin with potatoes and vegetables very reasonably priced at $ 19.95 and my girlfried had salmon, potatoes and vegetables for $ 16.95. Both dishes were perfectly cooked and absolutely delicious. Our waiter was attentive and pleasant, even bringing a free sample of a Greek dip I’d inquired about.
Laterna is almost like two different restaurants in one. In the main room on a Saturday night there is often Greek entertainment, dancing and a boisterous crowd. The smaller room is quiet, intimate and sort of romantic. It had been awhile since we were last here and the smaller room has been re-​done and is quite attractive.
Even on a Saturday night when food and service quality often falters at many restaurants, you can can count on Laterna to maintain its excellence in both categories.
The only negative is that street parking is almost impossible to find so I’d advise the valet parking, which is around the block behind the restaurant.

I was looking on internet for three days for a Greek restaurant with live music, and I found one in Bayside, NY, named Laterna. Family restaurant, with two dining rooms, one large for parties. Free parking in the back.
I threw a party last night there for my wife’s birthday. Great food, moderate prices! Bouzouki music with two very good singers. The service was good, the owner, Andreas, all the time supervising it.
Definitely, we will go there again

This place is SO OVER RATED!
The food is nothing special… in fact, it was so salty… as I was drinking my water, I felt soemthing crunchy in my mouth and REALIZED THERE WAS A CHEWED CLIPPED NAIL IN MY GLASS!
HOW DISGUSTING!!!
GO ELSEWHERE