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All of the food is freshly prepared and cooked on the day.
You can start off with feta cheese and tzatziki served with fresh bread.
Also you can follow this with roast lamb and a mixed platter of meats both served with rosemary roast potatoes. The lamb is extremely tender and very tasty.
The mixed platter is a good way of trying a number of dishes on the main menu and included roast lamb, roast chicken and a wonderful pork roll stuffed with apricots and herbs.
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| Από Olive Press-St Stefanos |
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| Από Olive Press-St Stefanos |
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| Από Olive Press-St Stefanos |
Famous Greek Dishes
Greek Food and Wine is famous for its amazing taste and flavour of Wine. Most dishes are the same all over Greece and the Greek Islands, however some parts of Greece have there own local culinary specialties or the same dishes cooked in a slightly different style.
Tzatziki: Greek yoghurt with finely chopped cucumber, garlic and olive oil. Ideal to eat with fresh Greek bread, fried potatoes or fried meatballs.
Taramosalata: Crushed fish's eggs.
Saganaki: Fried cheese. Different sorts of cheese can be found in saganaki. Excellent with a zest of lemon.
Keftedakia: Fried meatballs: beef, garlic and bread. Excellent with a lot of lemon on.
Spanakopitakia: Little spinach pies with crushed feta cheese.
Tiropitakia: Little cheese pies, usually made of feta or yellow cheese.
Horta: Boiled wild greens with olive oil, salt and lemon.
Briam: Mix of roast potatoes, eggplants, onions, garlic, tomato sauce and olive oil.
Dolmadakia: Vine leaves filled with rice and onions and sometimes minced beef.
Kalamaria: Squid Fried in a light batter and spinkled with lemon juice.
Xtapodi: Small pieces of octopus served either fried with lemon juice or boiled, with olive oil, vinegar and oregano.
Feta cheese: The famous Greek cheese can also be eaten alone, as a meze, with olive oil and oregano and can be found on a Traditional Village Salad.
Main Dishes
Moussaka: Base is made of potatoes topped with eggplants onions, minced beef and bechamel sauce.
Kleftiko: Known as "The dish of Thieves" consists of shoulder of lamb, with garlic, olive oil, oregano, lemon juice and seasoning, wrapped and baked in the oven.
Paidakia: Grilled lamb's ribs served with lemon.
Kokoretsi: This is one of the favourite dishes of Greeks; they mostly eat it during Easter. It consists of wrapped and roasted entrails of lamb, served with a lot of lemon.
Fish Dishes
You will find that most of the traditional Fish Tavernas in Greece all the owners will have their own fishing boat so you can be sure that the fish from their restaurant will be fresh from the early morning catch.
Marida - Small white bait fish, tossed in flour and salt and lightly fried and served with lemon.
Garides - Prawns can be fried, grilled over charcoal or boiled.
Garides Saganaki - Prawns in a tomato sauce with herbs, feta cheese and seasoning.
Charcoal Grilled Fish - Red Mullet, Tuna, Swordfish and Sardines are just a few to mention.
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