Apollo Cafe

So only being in this town a couple of days, I've noticed a trend of sorta serve yourself diners. They usually have a central order board, and then depending on the location, some table service of some kind.  The Apollo Cafe is one type of these restaurants. 

The Apollo Cafe is just down the street from where I live.  Literally 100 feet.  You walk in, and there are a bunch of tables.  All the way in the back is a counter, with a menu behind it.  There is also a pissed off looking Lebanese man waiting to take your order.  Ordering is easy enough, as I've done that plenty of times in my life.  I get the gyro platter with a greek side salad and go take a seat.  When the food is ready, this place doesn't bring it to you, they yell at you to come pick it up.  The system works fairly ok.  To the left of the counter there's all the silverware and napkins and accoutrements needed.

The food here is good.  Haven't had a quality gyro since living in Metro Detroit.  They also give you a squeeze bottle of the yogurt sauce, so you can't complain about not getting enough.  The greek salad was pretty good too.  I'm not a super picky eater, but there are some things I don't care for.  There's also some things I don't think I care for, but haven't tried in forever.  Pepperchinis is one of the latter.  Had two in my salad and they were actually quite tasty.  So, chalk one up for doing something new. Don't know why I thought they were bad, but whatever.  I still don't like raw tomato or olives, which were also in the salad (After traveling to Italy and trying them there, I figured I'll probably never like them).  Overall, everything was tasty.

Now, I hate this part at restaurants like this.  What do you do with your plates?  It's a semi serve yourself restaurant, there's no signs, and no one has left since I've been here so I can't follow their lead.  Thankfully, a two top to the left of me is finishing up.  They stack everything on a tray like they're going to buss the table themselves, and then just leave it there.  Cool.  I do as they do.  Disaster averted.  I walk out into the chilly March air and take a deep breath.

p.s.  Their website is uber cheesetastic:  http://www.apollocafe.com/