FOOD: First taste of Greek cuisine fails to live up to the hype

Pita gyros served at the Greek Taverna in Hotel Hellenic in Kigali. PHOTO | JEFFERSON RUMANYIKA | NMG

I had never tried Greek cuisine before. The closest I came was sampling Turkish and Lebanese dishes. I had heard of the Greek Taverna at Hotel Hellenic and thought it the perfect place to try out this cuisine.

However, one minute I would hear it was open and the next it was closed. It was like the infamous Overlook Hotel in Stephen King’s The Shining, which closed for the winter and opened in the summer. The Greek Taverna at Hotel Hellenic had the same mystery as a hotel in a horror movie.