Hydra Estiatorio Mediterranean

Our server was excellent and knew about all the different dishes. He suggested wonderful options and we were not disappointed.
The sommelier on duty was also excellent with a superb choice of wine to accompany our meal.
Just when I thought I was full, we HAD to try ALL three desserts... YUMMY!!!

It was great! Fabulous service, great food! Will definitely be back!

Try the specials they are usually quite interesting and well priced. Had a huge platter for 2 with meat (lamb, steak, chicken and also the most delicious prawns) for $78 added a couple starters and had enough to bring home for a midnight snack.
Cocktail list is unique if you are into that. Not my thing, but, I appreciate the option 🤗

Although we found the restaurant upstairs was not operating, we were greeted and taken downstairs to the bar area to a nice table there. The food was very good and interesting along with some traditional Greek dishes. We especially enjoyed the octopus. Service was attentive.

The service was very good and the food was delicious.

Absolutely divine experience - food and service were outstanding! Salmon dish was to die for... will be back!

Great food and wine. Service was also good.

The food and service were amazing!

The food was amazing. The staff were extremely friendly.

All Great !
A really nice lounge dinner or lunch place.
We have ordered a roasted lemon chicken, all very well presented and nicely dressed up...just the chicken would be better prepared for the right cooking .
Overall great service, great environment...music should be better pick -- jazzy will fit better !!

Excellent food and great service.
Although I would prefer to be basking in the Mediterranean sun this summer, this really is the best alternative.
Bring friends and Kalo Orexi!

Service was great.
Some of the appetizers were ok but the leg of lamb was absolutely delicious!

Very lovely, great server, such great food!

Excellent service. Fair price. Variety. Safe. We’l sure come back 😄

Very empty and service was awkward. Empty tables everywhere but they wouldn't seat us by a window.

Very good ambience. Exceptional service. A very new and welcomed approach to Greek food. Suggest the grilled fish that amazing. Did I mention exceptional service?

Lovely outing. Great service. I really like the shared plate type eating experience rather than individual meal/plates. Not only does it add to a community experience at your table, it also makes the meal a bit more cost effective (adds value).

Thanks for a great night:)

Beautiful interior, great atmosphere. Service was slow and the food was ok. Definely great experience but not going to be a regular for me.

Excellent food and fantastic service! Will definitely go again!

Amazing food and service !

Food was outstanding and the server was nice

Our server got the entree and side dish wrong for one of our guests, I ordered a martini with Tito’s but they had to run elsewhere to restock the Tito’s which took a while. I would of asked for a different vodka instead of the wait but the server insisted instead of listening to my request. Overall the food was good and server was courteous.

Excellent service and the decor is beautiful! Ordered the Roast chicken and the portion is just right for two people.

fish and chip was the most boring fish and chips i ever had..

The set menus for Valentine’s Day wasn’t a big hit.

I made the big mistake of taking my girl there on Valentine’s Day. The menu was set, very overpriced for underwhelming food, I just think they pre-plated the food and it just sat out. Service was bad but I really don’t blame our guy at all. We think he did his best and much support was given to him. Drinks had no booze, what was suppose to be a double tasted like water , and when I asked for a double I get the funny response of “Sir it already is one”. Holy Chrysler did he make me feel like an alcoholic. All in all I felt like I let my ol’ lady down considering we were excited to share a memorable experience together. I bet any other night this place is great, just not on Valentine’s Day smh

Tremendous small plates and dips. Grilled whole fish was perfectly cooked and delicious

Thank you for an excellent experience. It was the little details - regular but not too overbearing visits by our server, he mentioned that the dips were recipes of the chef's grandma, he poured extra dressing onto our salads when he realized that we did not take the entire portion. He allowed us to taste the dine out menu even though dine out had finished. Friendly, and genuine customer service made our experience memorable. Thank you to the team for this wonderful experience.

Food was very good, excellent service by our server!
Tried the dine out Vancouver menu.

I did not get the big fuzz about this place. I had high hopes I guess

Everything was pretty good, I had high expectations based on reviews and was a little disappointed with the lobster pasta, was quite bland but the lamb was great.

Servers went above and beyond! Food was out of this world delicious!!

I've already shared this with the restaurant directly & have heard back from them, but here is gist what I told them:

"Finding our way to the front of Hydra was proven to be difficult. The address listed for the restaurant is Howe Street, however, entering through Howe, there are no indication of where the restaurant is located [inside the building]. We walked through the maze to find the restaurant with a 2nd entrance on West Pender. "

"There were no indication upon walking into the building that you will only be greeted at the 2nd floor entrance... We had to ask the bartender on the lower floor if the restaurant is upstairs when we found the hostess booth but no hostess. The grand staircase in the middle of the restaurant is beautiful, however, it leads up to the middle of the restaurant, and again, no one to greet us. Staffed walked by us a few times, not acknowledging us, before we saw the glowing "HYDRA" sign and figure that we may be able to find someone to help us there. When we did find [the] 2nd entrance, we were once again greeted with an empty hostess stand. We stood there unsure if we would ever be helped for a good 3-5 minutes before someone returned to take us to our table.

"Where we were seated, there was a large party there...Throughout the night, it felt as though [our waitress] was more focused on serving the other big party before attending to us. Perhaps it was because they ordered 2 Whole Fish orders and many oyster platers and are spending much more than $45/head.

"The dine out menu's food was fine...The presentation of the plates was good. Sprouts as a garnish on the cheesecake dessert was a bit weird...Our experience was already spoiled and fine food doesn't help erase how undervalued we felt as a customer - where a table with the highest bill got the true service."

Great sharing plates. Great happy hour. Great for lunch meetings!

Went for dine out Vancouver but it hasn’t started yet however the lunch deal was great.

Overall experience was ok! Beautiful restaurant but food was average.

Best Greek in Vancouver

For special occasions we like to dine so we booked the Christmas Eve Dinner at Hydra and we were not disappointed!
Our menu consisted of the Chef's Amuse which was a mediterranean sushi roll, Tomato salad, a Spread Sampler with six different spreads (Melitzana/fava/xtipiti/menta/tzatziki/red pepper) and Whole Grilled Mediterranean Fish which we confirmed was flown in from the Mediterranean! For desert we had Chocolate syrup pie (Honey & icing sugar biscuit/double baked chocolate pie/cacao syrup) and Galaktoboureko in layers (Lemon semolina filling/cinnamon/yogurt mousse). The ambiance was mildly energetic and our thanks to Petra and Mark for the excellent service during our 4 hour dining experience.

We had our annual Christmas dinner at your lovely restaurant and really enjoyed everything. Sarah did an amazing job. Thank you!

Waiter was amazing. Was surprised the room was so empty for a Sat night. Would like to experience the room at full capacity.