Okeanos OR Oceanos

I still can't figure it out.  Saturday night Michael, Jesse and I along with Jill, Lenny and Brett went to Astoria to wait on line for Taverna Kyclades.  The wait time for a table for six was over an hour and a half, but we left our name and cell number in any case.  During holiday weekends the City is so quiet, we thought maybe the wait time would be reasonable.  There were plenty of parking spots however! We walked to the corner and found a restaurant with an interesting menu and an open table for six right at the windows (which are actually huge garage doors that were wide open).

The awning on the restaurant says "Okeanos", the menu says "Oceanos", the website is http://www.oceanorestaurantastoria.com/ (which does not exist on the web, btw). The owner is a kooky old man who also clears tables.  We had:  Fried calamari (average), Grilled octopus (way yummy), Horiatiki salad (Greek salad, no lettuce) (good), mix of spreads-taramasalata, tzatziki, babaganoush, hummus, with warm pita bread (good).  Jill and I shared a carafe of their house red.  It was Greek wine, light and drinkable, nothing to write home about.  Lenny ordered a red snapper but they ran out so he had black sea bass instead. Jesse ordered striped bass and they did not take the bones out (even though the menu states: Chef will remove bones unless otherwise instructed).  This is when the kooky owner tries to explain that most customers prefer the bones in a whole fish.  But why does the menu state otherwise?  He says the customer has to know what they want and order it de-boned.  Anyway.....I had a skewer of scallops (dry), swordfish (white ok, dark yucky) and one (yes, only one) shrimp) along with very limp dandelion greens. Jill and Brett had shrimp and Michael had chicken on a skewer.  They did give us a complimentary dessert of Galaktobouriko (custard in phyllo) very good!

All in all...we would not go back.  The check was $280 with a tip for six people, two of whom had no cocktails and the dessert was free.  Taverna Kyclades would have been much better, however, by the time they called me on my cell to tell me our table was ready...we were just leaving Oceanos.  Oh well.  Astoria is always an adventure and there are many restaurants to choose from.  After all, it is the company you keep that makes the day!