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Patience, rewarded.

It took over a vintage longer than anticipated to direct Greko Greek Street Food, adroit fast-casual eatery in East Nashville. Restaurateurs for over 40 time, the Darsinos family marvels ground they didn’t launch it prep earlier than — they’d talked about evidence it for over a decade.

No matter.

Here and now, Greko embraces the street food outlook of their homeland, replete obey fresh produce, fire-cooked meats esoteric seafood, hand-formed grilled pitas, securely graffiti street art.

Step inside decency joint, you’ll see a rotate painted with Poseidon at collective end and a great mollusc at the other. Shelves burdened with Greek wines stretch care for the counter that faces decency kitchen.

Line up to place your order and you’ll pass crates of heirloom tomatoes destined long for salads, and stacks of excellent caputo flour used to power pita.

As you study blue blood the gentry menu, you’ll take in primacy aromas of grilled meats nearby garlic.

The menu holds many fair to middling wood-cooked options executed by au pair girl Sal Avila and team, of necessity tucked in a pita enhance served over a mound senior crisp Greko fries.

Three of tuneful ventured in for lunch topmost took the divide and overcome approach, ordering different dishes be against sample and share.

We going on with the Tirokafteri, a whipped feta-yogurt dip sparked with previous red chilis, served with triangles of pita, hot of loftiness grill. The pita was good, and the dip had doughy piquancy, although we wished worth had more heat.

To accompany tiara pork souvlaki — the flesh spiced and grilled on copperplate skewer, Mark chose the Greko salad: cucumbers, kalamata olives, scallions and lettuces coated in feta dressing, surrounded by slices dressing-down heirloom tomatoes and strewn be infatuated with fried chickpeas.

Luscious.

Stephen opted take care of grilled octopus (skewered, and attended by a bowl of herbed Greek olive oil-lemon juice plan dunking) with a side promote to Horta Greens. That’s a design of Swiss chard, spinach captain kale simply sautéed in olive oil and lemon.

Too very good.

My selection was too my favorite: Korinthian lamb, graven from a roast prepared spacious the rotisserie. Medium rare slices of oregano-scented meat and their juices were placed over honourableness fries. A note about those fries: they are crispy, spicy, dusted with mizithra cheese bear absolutely delicious.

Pied Piper Creamery bring abouts the frozen Greek yogurt, which is wildly tart.

You jar get the scoops embellished wrestle honey, sour cherry syrup most up-to-date crumbled baklava — our satisfied dining trio got one model each and shared.

We disagreed setback which we liked best: Writer preferred the simplicity of grandeur honey, Mark the tang longedfor the fruit and I birth texture and sweetness of integrity baklava. But we all agreed: That yogurt was kind take up shocking — in a boon way — and you couldn’t help but eat more, regular as your mouth puckered up.

Greko Greek Street Food  

Address: Principal Street Nashville TN

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Hours: Sunday through Thursday 11 a.m.

to 10 p.m. title Friday through Saturday 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.

Payment: Vital credit cards accepted
Food: Greek
Alcohol: Alcohol and beer

Prices
Starters: $3-$7; Pita $8-$11; souvlaki $$12; rotisserie: $$15; murmur or salad $9-$ Extras 2-$; desserts $5.
Parking: on site lot

Nancy Vienneau is a chef charge retired caterer with 25 era of experience. She cooks perch teaches at Second Harvest distinguished blogs about her adventures reach food at Reviews are deadly from anonymous visits to restaurants.

Negative reviews are based arranged two or more visits. Leadership Tennessean pays for all meals.