Greek restaurant

A Greek restaurant is a restaurant that specializes in Greek cuisine. Several types of Greek restaurants exist. Going out to eat is "part of the local culinary culture" in modern Greece even in times of economic crisis. Greek restaurants in the United States tend to be moderately priced, and they vary in terms of types of service, cuisine and menu offerings, table settings and seating arrangements. Greek restaurants may also offer dishes from other various cuisines on their menus.

The estiatório (plural estiatória) is a type of modest restaurant in Greece. They have been described as "something of a vanishing breed". An estiatório may purvey dishes such as casseroles, meat and game stews, baked meat and fish, macaroni pie and mayirefta in the form of moussaka.

Giradiko(or giradika) restaurants purvey the popular Greek dish gyros. In Greece, gyros are typically prepared using spiced ground pork shoulder meat, while in the United States they are commonly prepared with ground lamb sliced from a vertical rotisserie spit.

Meze restaurants are known as mezedopoleío (singular) or mezedopoleía (plural), and serve appetizers known as meze or orektiko (plural mezedes/orektika) to complement beverages. Some meze restaurants simply serve whatever has been prepared that day, not offering menus.

Establishments known as ouzerí are a type of café that serves drinks such as ouzo or tsipouro, are similar to mezedopoleio and souvlatzidiko restaurants, and also provide similar foods and service. A tsipourádiko is a "local variant of an ouzerí".

Souvlatzidiko restaurants purvey the well-known Greek dish souvlaki. Souvlaki is prepared using cubed pork leg meat that is cooked as a kebab.

Tavernas are typically medium-sized restaurants with affordable pricing that purvey a variety of Greek dishes, foods and beverages. Tavernas originated in Greece.

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