Having walked by the Greek restaurant Aegean (on 70th and Columbus) thousands of times, I finally ordered in from it this week. I found the food to be uninspired.

The "country tomato salad" was advertised on the menu has having "vine ripened tomatoes, romaine, arugula, green peppers, red onion, barrel feta and virgin olive oil vinaigrette." I envisioned a bright, colorful combination of vegetables with large, bold tomato slices and feta cheese sprinkled throughout. Instead, Aegean's country tomato salad consisted of a large bed of lettuce, two small tomato wedges (and they were not as red as the vine-ripened ones at Fairway), two large pieces of feta (so they were not distributed evenly throughout the salad), and miniscule bits of green pepper.

The chicken breast with cumin and vinegar was fine, but nothing special. It came on a bed of rice pilaf and sauteed spinach. Those were okay too, but standard, not interesting.

I had more of a problem with the salad. From the menu, it looked great and I have seen much better salads with the same ingredients. If you call a salad a "country tomato salad" and the menu says "vine ripened tomatoes," then for $7, those tomatoes had better be bursting with flavor and be at least as good as the ones I buy at Fairway to put on a bagel with lox.

Aegean seems like a reasonable place to eat. The service at the restaurant is probably good. This food, however, was boring.