Diogenis - Kreisfreie Stadt Koln

We arrived early doors and got seated outside as it was a warm evening. The waiter was friendly and helpful although no English was spoken. The food was excellent, it arrived quickly too. Couldn't fault it at all. The restaurant is tucked away from the maddening crowds on a square where people milled about.

Cologne is a place where generally food isn't expensive and the quality is quite high but this place, although it had a decent atmosphere, didn't quite hit the spot for me.I asked for Kleftica and the waiter, in German, took the micky!The mised grill at about 12 quid was one slither of a lamb chop, about 4 pieces of lamb and the same chicken (or was it pork?) and a sort of minced meat meatball excuse for a kofta. Chips that were soft and soggy and generally a boring meal.A London Kebabish wouldn't last 5 minutes serving the same, let alone at the price.The Tsatsiki was good as was the humous but we had to ask several times for more bread. Anyway just very boringly less than average.

Great food, excellent quality of all dishes made genuinely, true Greek taste. Mousaka and Ochtapodaki (grilled octopus) were of a superior league! Very good. Bravo!

There seem to be a few negative comments for this restaurant but they are not that recent. maybe it has changed hands? anyway we had a lovely, reasonably priced meal with great service, good house wine and friendly English speaking staff.

We went in here on a Saturday night without a reservation and were lucky to get a table. Unfortunately, we did have to wait 30 mins to even get a drink and there only appeared to be two people waiting on the whole restaurant. In defence of the staff, there was a party of about 20 that were just receiving their food which may explain why the service was a little slow.Once we had our order taken the service was a little better and the quality of the food was excellent. The waitress who served us a was very friendly albeit she seemed bewildered by the amount of food we had ordered. She also arranged for the four of us to have a desert on the house which was a magnificent sponge cake with an orange liquer with it (Mmmmmm). With drinks the total bill was 127Euros which made it pretty good value.Note: Make sure you one of your party can speak either German or Greek as there is very little English spoken by the staff.