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Review of our meal at Opa, the Greek restaurant AUCspouse 1 hour ago My wife and I had dinner last night at Opa, the new Greek restaurant in Maho. As appetizers, we shared an order of spanakopita and an order of melitzanosalata (described on the menu as "eggplant dip, red pepper, orange zest, garlic, olive oil, pita").

For our main dish, my wife ordered the grilled red snapper, and I ordered the grilled octopus.

First, the good news. The spanakopita were delicious -- flawless, actually. The only small disappointment was that there were only two. Next time, we'll order more.

Both the grilled snapper and the grilled octopus were excellent.

More disappointing: the eggplant dip was tasteless (almost devoid of any eggplant or any flavor at all). The pita bread that accompanied it was not fresh -- in fact, it was impossible to peel open the little pita triangles because the two sides were fused. I ended up pouring olive oil on my plate and salting the olive oil -- that made for a more satisfying dip than the melitzanosalata.

The sides that came with our main dishes were identical for the snapper and the octopus: roasted potatoes (not quite cooked enough -- a little raw in the center), a scoop of unimaginative rice, and a simple not-very-Greek salad of lettuce and tomatoes (with the tiniest hint of mint). The sides were meh.

There is nothing that evokes memories of a meal at a taverna in Greece more than a glass of retsina wine. However, Opa does not offer any retsina on their wine menu. Unforgivable.

I ordered a glass of dry white wine. The waiter brought me red by mistake. At least he was gracious, and said I could keep the erroneous wine if I wanted, at no charge. I accepted his offer.

When our main dishes were served, I asked the waiter for a basket of bread. He said, "of course," but it never came.

Some of these problems may be due to the fact that this is the restaurant's first week. If some of these kinks are ironed out, the restaurant will be a good one.

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Of course, we have 2 return flights already booked

One later this month and the other late Feb 2026. The Feb flight I'm not worried about but the one in Dec is 24 days away and if I were to book on another airline the price at this late date would be astronomical.
Fingers Crossed

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