Athena’s Restaurant & Pizzeria

The place was great. Friendly waitress, and the best sausage calzone I’ve had since I lived in NYC.
Definitely worth a visit. I will be stopping back in for sure

Calzone and Moussaka were very good. Their sau
ce is on the tomato-​y side, not sweet at all. Service was good. Only one waitress on a Friday night so I don’t know if they do a lot of take out or short staff. If it got busy service would not be good.

Always consistent and reasonably priced. I have eaten here for years, and enjoy the familial atmosphere!

I guess the Help Wanted sign on the window was a hint! On a Thursday night, they had only one waitress. At least she was upfront and told us they would not be able to accommodate our party of 5. They actually turned us away! I guess it’s better than sitting there for hours. People in the parking lot said the waitress was doing a fantastic job, but having a hard time keeping-​up from being alone.

Maybe they are a pizzeria? Tried the Greek food…
If there is nothing nice to say, it’s better not to say anything at all?
Ok, service was polite, nice and prompt.

We went there for our anniversary dinner on first week of October. The wattress was rude, slammed everything on the table, only nice to the regulars in the next booth. While we were there, 3 other sets of people complained about the service. Food was good.

I stopped here for a dinner on a chilly October night, and the food was delicious. Service was prompt and polite and the atmosphere was delightfully family oriented.

Stopped in today with two work associates. The service was initially good. It went down hill from there. One of my co-​workers ordered a wrap and asked if he could get a salad instead of the fries that came with the wrap. The answer was a prompt and straight faced «No.» There was no follow up question what-​so-​ever, such as «would you like one on the side?» She just said that he could have chips instead. «That’s okay, I’ll take the fries.» … and we will take our money elsewhere. When we asked for itemized receipts for our business expense accounts we only got another printed non-​itemized copy of our bill. GET WITH IT! Snotty doesn’t get my money. Never again. Oh, and the photos don’t represent the pictures.

Stopped in after seeing it when we got off the highway to find some lunch on our honeymoon roadtrip from Ohio to Maine. I got the Greek salad and stuffed grape leaves. Salad was average, grape leaves were pretty good (and yes, I’m part Greek so I would know). My husband thought his buffalo chicken wrap was good. Good sized portions, friendly staff.

My parents own a condo up here so one weekend I was on the hunt for good pizza. I was told about this place, so off I went. The people were kinda rude about me getting a pizza to go. The pizza was good … Lots of meat and veggies. However, I do feel it could have been cooked a little longer.

We ate at Athena’s both nights of our stay in Lee. We really enjoyed the food. The first night I had the stuffed shells and a glass of wine, which was really good. The second night, I had the veal parm. I enjoyed that too. The prices were reasonable, and the staff friendly. I recommend this place for anyone looking for a place for casual dining.

Good pizza, good Greek salads. Reviews of Greek salads by non-​Lynners should be discounted.

maybe it’s because I was totally starving when we stopped here but omg that pizza was sooooo greasy and soooooo gooooooood. a carboholic’s dream :)

Been twice for lunch and can’t help wondering if they had a staff turnover because the service has been excellent and the servers extremely polite and efficient. Nothing like what several others reported. It’s a family friendly good for groups pizza place with excellent salads, pizza and desserts and noisy in a kid friendly kind of way. Pizza’s are flying out the door so the locals must love it.

If you’re looking for authentic Greek food don’t bother stopping here move on! The food was bland, tasteless, and uninspiring. The staff was nice, but had very little knowledge of the menu. Would not eat there again!

Greek salad was okay, but service was a dud. Waitress was busy gossiping with co-​worker. Was thinking about getting dessert, but waitress never came back. Time was a’wasting, so I forgot about dessert and just wanted to get out of there. Sat for several minutes waiting for my check. When she didn’t come and didn’t come and didn’t come, I finally went to the register. If she’d stopped yapping for a few minutes to pay attention to me, she would’ve gotten a bigger tip. Won’t go in there again. From what I experienced and other people have written here, it sounds like they need to overhaul the wait staff.

One star because I can’t give it a zero.
Food was uninspired diner food. The impatient server who took our order left for the day and the major attitude server with the bad tattoos replaced her. My girlfriend ordered chicken souvlaki which was OK but the tzatziki sauce was sour cream. I don’t profess to be a food expert but I grew up in a Greek neighbourhood. I’ve had tzatziki in Mansfield, Ohio that was pretty damn much the same as in Astoria, Queens. When she asked Medusa about tzatziki sauce, she nastily and abruptly said, «That *is* tzatziki sauce. It’s cucumber dressing.» My turkey club wrap was as about as good as the ones you buy off the shelf at 7 – 11. You eat there, good luck.
I would love to know why my review wasn’t included in the overall star rating. I guess Unilocal is another BS site like many others.

Stopped here on the way back to Boston after going to the outlets… 1 star for using the same plates as the ones my family had when I was little… and the other for the service being up to par as it was pretty busy during the holiday travel rush. That said the décor leaves something to be desired, the pizza is decent at best, and the 1^st beer I got I had to send back.

Ick.
I thought this might be an acceptable place to stop on the drive from Albany to Boston. I’m still looking for a reasonable place that is off the highway and not a chain. But this is not it.
The greek salad was fine. Let’s just say the pizza was nothing special, and leave it at that. The chicken parm sub was disgusting. It tasted like a frozen processed «chicken» patty. Something that one might find at Burger King, not a nice family Greek Pizza joint.
I don’t see any reason to come back. I’d rather snack on McDonald’s world famous french fries and maybe a premium chicken strip or two if hunger strikes on the road, than eat here again.
Maybe if I lived in Lee, it would be a different story.
But for better or worse, I live in Albany.

A seemingly decent stop off the Pike. It wasn’t cheap– large Chicken Parm sub and Baklava for just shy of $ 10.
The sub was pretty standard, except the roll had sesame seeds on it, which was a pleasant surprise. Pretty sizable, and keeping with the off-​the-​road theme, clean. (They also offered onions and peppers with it.)
Baklava was okay, but a bit soggy and a bit watery.
The pizza seemed to be on the thicker end of greek pizza, but I can’t comment on the dough-​sauce-​cheese «ratio».
The guys seemed nice, there’s a $ 10 minimum on cards, and they had standard BMC beers, plus Sam lager on tap.