AI sure has fun with these food creations.
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One can dream.
The oregano chips are good.
We have Piri Piri chips, Roast Chicken chips and Korean BBQ chips in Canada so it seemed believable to me. 
Not Horiatiki or Souvlaki flavour , but some regional flavours.
We tried the oregano chips! I thought they were pretty darned good. Reminded me of certain pizzas.
LLD is excited about the souvlaki flavored ones.
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They don’t exist… yet 
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Yep, unfortunately I fell for something on GreekTwitter this morning
It’s possible another brand is selling souvlaki chips. Lay’s hasn’t created them yet.
These Pringles, which were a limited time flavour in the UK, don’t seem to be available anymore.
These ones are available in the UK.
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There is a very disappointed man sitting next to me.
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Last night was our first in Athens. You may remember that we booked a late (10:30) dinner at the GB Rooftop restaurant. We had a long day, and we were bushed, but we (only just) managed to stay awake for it. The view is fantastic, and that was the big selling point here. Food was fine, expensive, but you are definitely paying for the view. Lulu and I started with burrata with pesto, LLD had the horiatiki. He then had ribeye with fries, while I had pasta with king crab. Lulu had a pasta with lamb prosciutto and Gruyere foam. It was all perfectly fine. We were tired and loved the view. Wifi very slow, may need to add photos separately.
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Also throwing in a word for Ergon Bakehouse. We just stopped in on the way back from the Acropolis for completely unnecessary pastries, and they are very good. A butter croissant (LLD did say it could use more butter but that it was amazingly tender), a pain suisse which seems to be filled with chocolate pastry cream and is absolutely killer, and a very soft and puffy cardamom bun. Our hotel is over this place, and has their bread with breakfast, great chew, very good sourdough flavor.
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You’re making me pine for Greece. I think I will head over to Toronto’s Greektown for dinner tonight.
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Dinner last night was at Αιόλου 68. No pictures. Some of the food was good, some meh, but service was insane. We had looked it up on TripAdvisor earlier in the day and found wildly divergent takes. We laughed and didn’t really think any more about it. We started with our usual tzatziki and taramasalata, both good. Next a plate of crispy fish bites to share. The fish was delicious but the fry was underdone and gummy. We decide it was time to order mains, so LLD asked about the fish of the day, and I asked if the grilled vegetables were enough to share. At this point the waitress tells us the whole menu is for sharing. Oh! It didn’t say that anywhere and no one had mentioned it. We’d been sharing, so no problem. But it would have been nice to know. The three staff members decided to go for a smoke, stood outside chatting. We waited for the bottle of water we’d ordered. Once they finished they had a lot of customers to deal with, and dishes kept being delivered to our table that we hadn’t ordered (we let them know, and the food got to its owners). We ordered: santorini salad for Lulu, grilled squid, grilled vegetables, rice for me (each a separate dish), grilled fish and fries for LLD. The salad showed up (along with another plate for a different table). The fries showed up. We waited. That bottle of water still hadn’t made it to the table. Waited. My squid and vegetables showed up. Waited. The grilled fish showed up. Waited. Water showed up. Yay! We asked for another round of wines. I see the three staff members at the bar, laughing, pouring batches of different leftover reds into the glasses, looking at them through the light. Right where we can fully watch what they’re doing. So when they brought the wine to the table I said, listen, we saw what you were doing over there, and we don’t want that wine. She doesn’t try to deny anything, but keeps insisting I try it. The red is weird and cloudy. No, please bring us different wine. She finally gave in, and we watched them open a new bottle and pour from it. I mention that we are still waiting on our rice. She says “oh, we accidentally gave it to another table, and they’re remaking yours” - at this point many things are going through our minds, and we’re glad we have a sense of humor. The rice still didn’t come out for another 15 minutes, at which point we were done eating. I waited tables through my 30s, and I am understanding of a lot. But nah, don’t go yo this place.
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All in all my favorite feta is the Tnuva israeli sheep feta which Costco sells in the kosher section. Its a creamy type but we lay it on top of the salad in flat chunks (as they do in greece) instead of mixing it into the salad to avoid disintegration, take a bit of feta with every bit. Also good, the campari tomatoes, sold at costco and elseshere, the petite mideast cucumbers which can be used unpeeled and unseeded and some cretan barley dakos as an addition if you have access to it. The best country salad ever. And onions of course.
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sorry you had a crappy experience. i hate sharing places, its an excuse for having a thoughtless food delivery style and you never know how much of anything you will get. it must not have been a problem for my daughter and husband who probably ordered more simply and were there out of season.
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Jen, please don’t worry. I read a great review on Food & Wine or something similar. Thought it sounded great. And the grilled squid and vegetables were wonderful. But the service … jeesh. Not worth an evening out.
I would’ve left without paying eons before they pulled that wine nonsense. Sorry about such a shitty experience.
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I don’t generally make village salad when tomatoes aren’t in season. We get amazing local tomatoes, I do often use the Persian cukes that are available at our local supermarket chain, TJ’s Greek imported feta, red onion, sometimes green pepper (my least favorite component, tho), sometimes olives. Greek oregano, s&p, Greek olive oil, splash of RWV. No dakos on mine.
Ah green peppers, the carp of the vegetable world 
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I like them in specific contexts, like… village salad. Just not too much of them. They’re also an essential part of my favorite veg pizza trinity: red onion, mushroom, green pepper. Something about their grassy bitterness just works with the sweetness of the onion & the earthiness of the shroomz 
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No excuse for poor frying technique in Greece!
There are plenty of places with crappy service. I remember we told the waiter the wine was corked in Chania on Crete, and he told us it was supposed to taste like that.
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Cubanelle and jalapeño are the only green peppers I buy, never liked green bells.
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