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I wanted to pretend to eat something healthy this week and was thinking I needed something green to meet that expectation.

I was also needing it quickly. While thinking about where to go I realized it's been a long time since I last went to The Simple Greek.

It's located in the strip mall next to United Marketstreet.

It's a medium-sized fast casual restaurant.

Since it's been quite a while since the last time I visited, I took a good look at the menu and noticed that it seems to be more streamlined since I was last inside.

If you haven't been, it's a build-your-own kind of place. You pick a sandwich or bowl. Then you choose the base and protein.

I decided to order a bowl ($9.99) with a salad as the base and traditional gyro as the protein.

What I wanted was a gyro sandwich without the pita.

All the toppings were pretty much diced, which was a bit disappointing.

Since I wanted onions and tomatoes, I ended up picking a type of onion, tomato and cucumber salad to top my bowl. I had peperoncinos, tzatziki and feta cheese added.

The gyro meat was a bit thick, in long strips and pretty forgettable. 

There was a good amount of the meat, but I wish it was cut thinner and in smaller pieces.

Since I was basically eating it as a salad I had to look around for a knife to cut the meat into more manageable bites.

The tzatziki was wonderful and the cucumber salad mixture was sour and tart. The two paired well together and made the gyro meat much easier to eat.

Next I ordered spanikopita ($2.99), lemonis potatoes ($2.99) and a baklava cheesecake ($3.99).

The spanikopita or spinach pie was good. The filling was well seasoned and tasty. I liked the flaky phyllo and it was pretty big. I'd order it again.

The lemonis potatoes were meh. I didn't taste much lemon in it. They were just okay potatoes.

Finally it was time for dessert, and I really like baklava and cheesecake. Together they should be amazing.

It probably would be somewhere else.

On top was baklava and underneath was the cheesecake with nuts. It's very easy to separate the two since once you try to cut off a piece they came apart.

The baklava part was covered in nuts which would have been better inside of it and in smaller pieces. The cheesecake part didn't have the smoothness I'd expect.

I did finish it so it's not as if it was bad. It was just okay.

You get, in my opinion, a lot of food for the price, but there isn't much excitement for it either.

If you go

What: The Simple Greek

Where: 3701 Fairway Blvd #108, Wichita Falls, TX 76309

When: Monday - Sunday 11 a.m. - 9 p.m.

Contact: (940) 692-4976,

Rating: 3.5 forks

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