henry's letters: Greek food and drink

Friday, August 25, 2017

Greek food and drink

Savory (foreground) and sweet (background) cheese 'pies' with phyllo near lion fountain, Heraklion

Apaki (Cretan smoked pork) background, and a Cretan salad

Tomato 'fritters'

Cretan omelet - heavy on potatoes

Volkan gray in middle - from Santorini, 'lava filtered'. Mythos is basically Greek Budweiser. I don't remember the Voreia very well.

Fix Dark quite good dark beer, like Modelo Negro. The other one was 'organic' but was pretty average. Plus some kind of cocktail.

Classic Greek salad at the Souvlaki restaurant near Archeology Museum, Heraklion

Gyros - made with real meat, not weird pressed/spiced stuff as in USA.

Classic Cretan salad with rusks

Sea bass. Needed deboning. Dinner at the Veneto, about 100 yards from our hotel

eggplant and tomatoes

Smoked tuna with spaghetti

Hellas Greek Pilsner. not bad on a hot day in Matala

remnants of shrimp - - these aren't local

Sardines

Volkan grey (again) and Solo imperial ale. Solo is made in Heraklion

My only memory of our big wine tasting meal - -no pictures of food, but I remember have small pies with fava bean crust.

Meatballs from Diogenes Tavern, Athens

Orzo and lamb cooked in pot

seafood platter I shared with Cheryl on Aegina. Sardines, other small fish, squid, octopus, 'white fish', shrimp, fish cakes, and vegetable fritter. Don't forget the tzatziki

Volkan black - a black lager. OK, but grey is better. From God's Restaurant in Athens

Gyros, again

roasted lamb shank in a paper bag

Dolmades

Cindy had this - - I don't remember what it was. Some kind of 'pie'

Fix - better than Mythos, but pretty standard lager. The Miller of Greek beers. Drank this outside of the Temple of Hephaestus in Athens

Soft cheese wrapped in sunflower seeds on beet jam. Okay, but the cucumber gazpacho and the monkfish carpaccio (no pictures) were much better, I thought , from the Balcony restaurant in Athens