Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Opa!


Being that San Francisco is lacking in Greek restaurants, I was so excited to hear we were going to eating Greek food for dinner. We walked around Vancouver for a while until our stomaches and freezing bodies told us it was time to dine. We stopped at a place on Robson Street that overlooked all of the shops. I had low expectations because the guy outside gave us a free coupon for appetizers but was pleasantly surprised.


I ordered the Chicken Souvlaki, a favorite of mine. We started off with some tzatziki (cucumber yogurt dip), fresh homemade pita bread, dolmas (stuffed grape leaves), and saganaki (flaming cheese). It was the perfect meal to keep me warm and to make me feel at home. What is it about Greek food that makes it taste so good? Gosh, I need to go visit Greece some day....

(Dolmas with lemon sauce)

(Saganaki, sorry I forgot to take a picture before we devoured it)

4 comments:

Tamar1973 said...

Petaluma has a good Greek restaurant on Lakeville Highway! : )

Camilla Salem said...

we need to go to that greek place we went to for kenzas bday! let's go when i get back yeah??? you and me can go for lunch and just PIG out. by the way i love that flaming cheese stuff.

Claire (Culinarygoddess.com) said...

Tamar- Thanks for the tip! I'll def look it up :)

Camilla- Yeah I gotta go there, its like one of 2 actually good greek places in the city

Jana said...

I was a prep cook at a greek restaurant, my bff is greek and her dad owns it, I miss making all the food, I swore I would never remember his recipes so that they would stay a family secret, ugghhhh saganaki, why dont they make you in TN? I really did forget all the recipes, but even if I remembered them I would only know how to make epic proportions for the masses.