What's For Dinner #112 - the Holiday Cookie Frenzy Edition - December 2024

Staying in Hershey overnight for an AM procedure that will hopefully, finally deal with my chronic pain issue. A girl can dream :crossed_fingers:t2:

Grabbed a 6-pack at the bottle shop to take to a Greek place that got pretty good reviews on the googlz (4.7 rating), and had a promising menu. We mistakenly thought it was BYOB, so had picked up a coupla cans each of Carrie Kölsch & von Trapp Kellerbier, but apparently they recently got a liquor license, so back in the car our cans went, and we had Stella on draft instead.

I had a tough time choosing 3 candidates for the dip sampler, but finally settled on tirokafteri, skordalia, and melitsanosalata. I find most restaurant taramosalata disappointing, and the fava seemed like it was going to be too heavy.

Anyway, as you can see a very generous amount of dips, and an abundance of pita & cukes, of which there seemed to be an endless supply in the kitchen :grin:

The skordalia was very good, the melitsanosalata just ok, and the tirokafteri had absolutely zero heat to it and was much lighter and creamier than I expected it to be.

We ordered spanakopita and 2 souvlakia (pork & lamb) for our mains plus a Greek salad. The tomatoes were, of course, absolutely flavorless, but I was just happy to see no lettuce on the plate, and the feta in slabs.

I thought the spanakopita was excellent: heavy on the dill, easy on the feta, perfectly crispy phyllo. The pork & lamb souvlakia were perfectly cooked as well, but both on the fattier side… a lil too fatty for me.

And they each came with lemon, @mts !!! :heart_eyes:

The dessert menu included loukoumades, a rarity at Greek places I’ve been to in the US, and as usual we were too stuffed :sob: to have them right then and there, which is how freshly fried food is to be enjoyed.

Instead, we took a slice of ekmek back to the room, which is a favorite dessert of mine & another rarity, both stateside and in Berlin.

This place may be one of the two best Greek restaurants I’ve dined in the US. Polí oraya :blush:

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