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50 BEST GREEK RESTAURANTS ON THE EASTERN COAST JUNE 7-8, 2014 The National Herald T H D E L N A AT ER IONAL H www.thenationalherald.com 2 50 Best Greek Restaurants On The East Coast THE NATIONAL HERALD, JUNE 7, 2014 The National Herald The 50 Best Greek Restaurants On The East Coast A weekly publication of the NATIONAL HERALD, INC. From time immemorial, Greek culture has held But there is another reason. The simple delights of not just the food and drink, but also courtesy, (ΕΘΝΙΚΟΣ ΚΗΡΥΞ), hospitality sacred. Our ancient ancestors believed one Greek cuisine are so complete, so satisfying, it would conversation, sometimes music and dancing. It is reporting the news and of their most crucial duties were to feed and clothe be a crime not to share them. And so eateries abound, Greek food, after all. addressing the issues of the visitors in their homes. Every guest was an from the humblest food truck to the most palatial So dig in to our annual Best Restaurants issue to paramount interest to the Greek honored guest. Perhaps the venerable history of Greek dining room. They all hold the same philosophy: read about new developments in Greek gastronomy, hospitality explains why restaurants prove to be the eating and drinking is not for mere sustenance, but an enjoy new recipes, and see if your favorites made the American community of the most popular Hellenic trade, generation after opportunity to connect with one another. As the list. United States of America. generation, no matter where Greeks find themselves. ancients would put it, “to recline at table,” to savor Kali Orexi! Publisher-Editor Antonis H. Diamataris Assistant to Publisher, Advertising Veta H. Diamataris Papadopoulos Special Section Editor Sophia Stratakis Huling Production Manager Chrysoula Karametros Marketing & Design Director Anna Angelidakis 37-10 30th Street LIC, NY 11101-2614 Tel: (718)784-5255 Fax: (718)472-0510, e-mail: [email protected] EOS RESTAURANT MYKONOS GREEKTOWN GRILLE Democritou 1 and Academias Sts, Athens, 10671, Greece Tel: 011.30.210.3614.598 CONNECTICUT open and showcases occasional urday night. They even have a favorite. “Beautiful food, very been in tentacle utopia for years Fax: 011.30.210.3643.776 live music. 490 Summer Street doggie friendly patio, for four- good service, good prices, big thanks to Kyma. The restaurant e-mail: [email protected] Stamford, Conn. 06901 (203) legged customers. 1230 Cleve - menu,” praises one TNH con - grills it to crisp smokiness and EOS 569-6250 eosgreekcuisine.com land Street, Clearwater, Fla. tributor. 628 Dodecanese Blvd., serves it over a simple pickled With its recently revamped Entrées: $14-$37 (727) 447-7800 greektown - Tarpon Springs, Fla. 34689 red onion salad with a splash of menu, this elegant spot boasts grille.com Entrées: $12-$25 (727) 914-4306 Entrées: $10- red wine vinaigrette. Opa, y’all. fresh contemporary Greek cui - $20 3085 Piedmont Road, Atlanta, sine and was rated by FLORIDA MYKONOS Ga. 30305-2624 (404) 262- ctnews.com as one of the 13 "Spitiki Kouzina" ("Home 0702 buckheadrestaurants.com spots to enjoy Easter brunch in Cooking") trumpets the front GEORGIA Entrées: $24-$36 Stamford. Highlights include the GREEKTOWN GRILLE awning of this "hole in the wall" EOS Burger (with beef, feta, and “Clearwater has a winner on casual restaurant open since tzatziki sauce – plus homemade its hands,” lauded the Tampa 1993, and most diners agree it KYMA MASSACHUSSETS fries), Kotopoulo me Prassa Bay Times when the Kara - has some of the best Greek food Executive Chef Pano Karatas - (chicken with leeks) and whole mountzos family opened this on the sponge dock area. Fresh sos made waves in 1979 with fish. There is flaming cheese, eatery in 2008. All the favorites octopus caught daily in the Gulf Pano’s and Paul’s, and in 1987 AEGEAN RESTAURANT souvlaki sticks and comfort food are on hand: mousaka, pastitsio, of Mexico, a large menu includ - built the Buckhead Life Restau - “It’s simple. Come hungry. classics like Imam Bayaldi (egg - lamb youvetsi, dolmades, and a ing sandwiches and gyro go rant group, adding this contem - Leave happy,” is the philosophy plant). Sip Santorini Iced Tea or gyro platter Yelp users love. alongside the plentiful entrées, porary Greek seafood spot in behind the homestyle dishes at a White Sangria made with There is Euro-Arabic music and including fish by the pound. The 2001. Octopus is a hot ingredi - Nicholas and Toula Ntasios’ two Samos Muscat. The patio is dancing every Friday and Sat - saganaki, as expected, is a huge ent nationally, but Atlanta has restaurants, the first of which debuted in 1981 in Framing - ham. There is a nice selection of imported beers and a creative special mixed drinks menu. “The Improper Bostonian” calls it “the next best thing to having Greek friends who put a spit in the yard come Easter.” 257 Co - chituate Road, Route 30 Fram - ingham, Mass. 01701 (508) T N 879-8424 and 640 Arsenal A R Street, Watertown, Mass. 02472 U T A (617) 923-7771 aegeanrestau - T N S A E R rants.com Entrées: $10-$24 R U R A E T S N E R GREEK CORNER R O C N RESTAURANT A K A E E Corner’s Special Gyro and E M G R E Y K G A Souvlaki are among the popular THE NATIONAL HERALD, JUNE 7, 2014 50 Best Greek Restaurants On The East Coast 3 4 50 Best Greek Restaurants On The East Coast THE NATIONAL HERALD, JUNE 7, 2014 OLYMPIA RESTAURANT MYKONOS GRILL A TASTE OF GREECE IT’S GREEK TO ME sandwiches at this cozy spot opened in 1989 in signature cocktails such as the “Ouzo Sour” made pura-style calamari, the mousaka (“like eating a with Solomos Kalamata, Kotopoulo Sparti – but college town Cambridge. There are lots of appe - with ouzo, gin, syrup, lemon juice and an egg cloud”), and the Psari-sto-Filo, a family recipe also Moussaka Tenafly. The menu was designed tizers and tons of vegetarian entrées, but also a white. The Baltimore Sun rated it number 13 of that encases fresh haddock and a white wine and by Chef Alex Gorant and food expert Diane Kochi - burger if you so desire at George and Themis Baltimore’s 50 Best Restaurants of 2014.1000 mushroom sauce in filo dough (Tsoupelis calls it las over a one-month trip throughout Greece, Boretos’ award-winning establishment. The broth - Lancaster Street, Baltimore, Md. 21224 (443) “the Greek version of Wellington”). identifying ingredients from many regions. Great ers’ pastitsio was featured on the Food Network’s 708-5818 www.ouzobay.com Entrées: $19-$75 New Hampshire Magazine named it the Best care is taken with the seafood as well as culinary “Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives” in September 2010. Greek Restaurant in 2011, and it earned the comfort items like Yiayia’s Patates (Grandma’s 2366 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Mass. MYKONOS GRILL Greater Derry/Londonderry Chamber of Com - Potatoes). Not only the refined Greek cuisine, but 02140 (617) 661-5655 www.greekcorner.us. En - Cycladic blue and white predominate here, merce’s Business of the Year award for 2013. An - also the entertainment – with live bouzouki/guitar trées: $11-$17 which the Washington Post has described as “a other invention is the baklava cheesecake, whose nights -- has made this restaurant owned by fa - prescription to happiness.” Fresh fish, traditional name alone is drool-worthy. Hood Commons, 55 ther/son team Michael and Alexander Parlamis, OLYMPIA dishes like lamb shank and appetizer samplers Crystal Avenue, Derry, N.H. 03038 (603) 537- that only opened in 2006, already popular. It has Founded in October 1952, by Socratis and Kiki reign at this 20-year-old institution. Peter Pagonis 0111 amphoranh.com Entrées: $13-$28 the Best of Bergen award under its belt as well as Tingas and relatives Peter and Barbara Cocalis, is from Sparta and his wife is from Athens, but positive New York Times and ZAGAT exposure, this is the oldest family-run restaurant in town – their restaurant is named after their favorite isle. to name a few. AXIA’s Tim Vlahopoulos brings and a real favorite with Lowell’s original Greek There’s no plate-breaking, but plenty of happy, NEW JERSEY customers Greece’s finest wines. 18 Piermont settlers. An adjacent building houses a function relaxing Greek background music. In 2011, they Road Tenafly, N.J. 07670 (201) 569-5999 hall that can accommodate 300 people. There’s a opened Nostos Restaurant in Vienna, Virginia, www.axiataverna.com Entrées: $17-$40 $10 dine-in menu after 3 p.m. Mondays and Tues - which – as the owners explain – means: “The de - A TASTE OF GREECE days, not including holidays. There is occasional sire to go back to the place where you were Marathon runner, former soccer player and IT’S GREEK TO ME live entertainment, which they hope to increase raised.” That spot is decorated with black and Athens native Themis Mourelatos took over this Three generations of the Papavasiliou family to every Saturday night beginning in September. white photos of Greece of yesterday. 121 Con - intimate location in 2007, and added healthy are involved with this institution, which has be - 453 Market Street Lowell, Mass. 01854 (978) gressional Lane, Rockville, Md. 20852 (301) 770- choices to the menu, including vegetarian dishes. come a chain of nine restaurants. Grandmother 452-8092 newolympia.com Entrées: $9-24 5999 www.mykonosgrill.com Entrées: $14-$31 Daily specials often include seafood, grilled or Ero Papavasiliou’s recipes reign at the restaurants baked in tomato sauce, Greek-style. Yelp users known for their honest Greek food.