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Snapshots from Greece: Souvlaki from O Thanasis in Athens

LOOKS AMAZINGGGGG.....
just decided to have Greek for lunch after reading Erin's Post!

Party at Riggs at 12:19PM on 07/13/09

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Snapshots from Greece: Souvlaki from O Thanasis in Athens

I NEED HELP! I went to Athens four years ago and I used to eat at a taverna called Gefstiki Gonia; my favorite dish was the same that shows on photo #4: a plate with a pita at the bottom, 3 or 4 beef kebabs and some salad...

Can anyone tell me the correct name for this plate? And more important: can anyone give me the recipe to do them at home??? :-D

Thanks Erin for the post, and thanks in advance to anyone who can help me!

Best regards from Barcelona, Spain!!! :-D

euroherbal at 11:56AM on 07/27/09

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Snapshots from Greece: Souvlaki from O Thanasis in Athens

The best souvlaki/gyros I had in Greece were at Lucky's on the island of Santorini. I was there 4 days and ate at Lucky's everyday!

jammin83 at 11:17AM on 07/17/09

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Snapshots from Greece: Souvlaki from O Thanasis in Athens

@foodful: Meat nuances! These things are very important. Perhaps we should just go by the ancient, very technical term: stick meat.

Erin Zimmer at 5:19PM on 07/14/09

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Snapshots from Greece: Souvlaki from O Thanasis in Athens

P.S. In an effort to sound less obnoxious, I mean more the Athens area, not all of Greece (I wouldn't know, and it is regional), and you're absolutely correct Erin that all of this stuff is technically one kind of souvlaki or another.

foodful at 4:56PM on 07/14/09

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Snapshots from Greece: Souvlaki from O Thanasis in Athens

Hi Erin, thanks. Just saying that in Greece, if you told your friend you were going for a souvlaki, that's not what they'd be picturing. You'd refer to that as bifteki (which is the specialty of that area of the market). The commonly referred to "souvlaki" in Greece (eaten both in a pitta like the above picture, or ordered in piles of sticks) looks like this: http://49gym-athin.att.sch.gr/etwinning/produits/images/souvlakia2.JPG

I wasn't aiming to criticize the title, just trying to help out the fellow poster who said "So THAT'S what souvlaki is supposed to be like."

foodful at 4:49PM on 07/14/09

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Snapshots from Greece: Souvlaki from O Thanasis in Athens

@foodful: According to Wiki, souvlaki is the diminutive of souvla or skewer, so it just refers to the small pieces of meat (whether pork, chicken, lamb, etc.) or veggies grilled on a skewer, eaten alone or in a pita. Sounds pretty synonymous with kebab? Either way, those little meat cubes were definitely grilled on a stick!

Erin Zimmer at 8:32AM on 07/14/09

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