Yanni's Mediterranean Bar & Grill & Lemoni Lounge

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CLOSED NOW - Opens at 11:00am

If you want great fish, vegetarian, and steaks come here. The new lemoni lounge is a great welcome edition to the restaurant, hip and swanky. Service is top notch.

Yesterday evening we went to Yannis for dinner and waited just over an hour after we placed in our food order. I had to confront serving staff and was treated rudely. When we got our order it was cold and I personally was served very little for a dish that I paid $28 for. The staff was very uncaring and disrespectful. The son of the owner followed me outside the restaurant and tried to start a "fight" with me. I encourage you NOT to dine at Yannis it is not the same as when Nick was in charge. You will be extremely disappointed with the food and the rude service you will receive there!

Yanni's Restaurant has seen the last of me, after the last two visits and over 12 years of patronage. Under new management, they have made it clear to my partner and I that our business is no longer welcome. Last trip we asked for a table, got seated at the bar and then jerked around about getting a table when the place was practically empty. And, we finally got shoved into a back table in the back of a 75% empty restaurant because "we didn't make a reservation." An African-American man and his girlfriend never got a table at all. They had to eat at the bar. Now, on 7/1/12, all of a sudden, they can't put the ice bucket with the bottle of white wine next to the table and bring me my usual scotch and soda, like they've done for the last 12 years. Mysteriously they've newly discovered a "law" prohibiting the practice. It's actually a regulation and it doesn't say what they say it does -- it has a specific exemption for wine in a bottle served with a meal. They've served us like this for years and never blinked an eye. Now,  it's a problem. Could it be they're trying to be more "discerning" regarding the "makeup" of their clientele? We walked out.I don't have Lexis access at home, so there may very well be a crazy case out there that interprets the reg differently than I have perceived to be its plain meaning and my knowledge of long standing business  practice.  Regs below:NMAC 15.10.51.11   C. The following practices are prohibited on a licensed premises:(4)  allowing any person to have more than two unconsumed alcoholic beverage drinks at any one time;Notice the Reg states "any person" and not a total number of persons at any table in a restaurant.  Then, later in the same reg:NMAC 15.10.51.11   D.  Nothing contained in this regulation shall prohibit a licensee from:(2)  selling wine by the bottle or carafe, or beer in a pitcher, when sold with a meal;