Spartans Family Restaurant

Spartans offers simple and hot deli style food with friendly and attentive service. We ordered the grilled cheese, a Caesar salad with shrimp and two items off the kids menu. Portions are generous and everything came out piping hot. I'd pass on the hummus appetizer. It's very tasty but sparse portions. Spartans is the closest to a local diner, so easy food for everyone. I think the decor and vibe could be modernized. It's a little dark and cramped inside and with a face lift to brighten up the place, they'd easily see more customers. Also, Spartans could diversify the kids menus beyond an all-fried set of options which isn't healthy (they are delicious, though). Perhaps carrots or peas and broccoli?

I just really love this place and their sister establishment by Fort Belvoir Olympians. They just really do quality food. I particularly enjoy the Greek potatoes. Some of my favorite things are the chicken Slovaki platter, the pork chops, the salmon, and there's a chicken sandwich that they have with balsamic glaze that I really like. Never really extensive menu with something for everyone and I've never had a bad thing in either restaurant. I encourage you to try it. It's a good place where you get good value for your money.

Great, fast, friendly service. Amazing food. We had to try the feta fries appetizer, so good. The salad was excellent. For the main course I shared the Gyro and Pastrami sub with my wife, both really really good. The kidos had fish and chips, and chicken with veggies. Both of them loved it. We made it home and ate the rest for dinner (happily ordered way too much)

Do not order from here! I ordered the stuffed shells and a piece of cake because I wasn't feeling well, and didn't feel like going out to get something. Huge mistake! I paid $30 for stuffed shells and a piece of cake. The portions are a joke. They are smaller than Milanos' kid's meals. I basically got 3 bites. The food was cold, the noodles were hard, and the ricotta had an awful taste. I got a tiny slither of cake that doesn't even fill up half of the container. It is bitter, gross, and stale. I should've just gone to Taco Bell or anywhere else. I ate there about a month ago. The food was good, but thinking about it, the waitress left a bad taste in my mouth. I am young and Spanish and had on sweatpants. The waitress seemed like she really didn't want to deal with me. Everyone else there were clearly regulars, older, and preppy. I was having an issue with my bank card where when you ran it, it would say declined and I had money. If you ran it again it would go through. The waitress said my card was declined and was definitely annoyed, and it was kind of like she knew this would happen. I tried to explain the situation to her, and she just kept talking over me and was really pushy repeatedly saying you don't have another card. She then sent another waiter to "deal with me". He took my card and ran it again, and it was fine like I told them. I definitely felt really disrespected.

We have eaten here many times. The food is almost always very good but the service has been lacking lately. Over the last few months we have been seated and had to wait 20-30 minutes for a server to come to our table even after attempts to ask servers passing by if we could at least get drinks started. It seems like they may be more focused on the takeout side of things these days.