Greek Churches

[Mik]

The Greek festival here is a big deal every year. Fun, although I seldom go to festivals anymore.

[DougG]

My housing complex shares a wall with a Greek church. Every year they give everyone in my development free passes to their festival because they screw up our parking so badly.

Enjoyable and I especially enjoyed the part about it being free for us…

[Big_Al]

Lots of Greek food festivals in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. I usually enjoy going to at least the one nearest me.

Has anyone noticed how many diners are owned and run by Greeks?

Big Al

[Daniel]

There's a Greek jewelry designer who makes jewelry by hand with an entire collection inspired by the motifs of a specific ancient Greek church.

I'll post the story when it cools down.

It's 91 F at 6:30 p.m.!

[wtg]

@Big_Al said:

Has anyone noticed how many diners are owned and run by Greeks?

Lots of restaurants owned by Greeks around here, including a tapas restaurant here in my town. Well, it was a tapas bar for many years but recently the Greek owners closed it and it re-opened as a...wait for it...Greek restaurant! Real Greek food, that is, not Greek diner food.

https://whatnow.com/chicago/restaurants/arlington-heights-la-tasca-tapas-will-soon-become-parea-greek-kitchen/

[Mik]

@Big_Al said:

Lots of Greek food festivals in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. I usually enjoy going to at least the one nearest me.

Has anyone noticed how many diners are owned and run by Greeks?

Big Al

Yes, and they are very good, by and large. There’s a whole lot of them in Michigan.

[Daniel]

There was this wonderful Greek restaurant in Sarasota back in the day.

Our standard go to restaurant for dinner was a Thai restaurant owned by my friend's parents.

On special occasions (any time we went was one), we went to an outdoor Barbeque restaurant in Sarasota's Black neighborhood.

My friends and I almost always went out for lunch or dinner or someone made dinner and we'd have a dinner party.

We didn't use the mandatory cafeteria plan very often but in fairness, the entire price of the plan was only about $275. adjusted for inflation. We used some of it.

I don't like going out to eat now. I don't even like ordering food. It's almost always a disappointment.

[Daniel]

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[Steve Miller]

In CA there are dozens of hamburger restaurants owned by Greeks. Interesting that they all look nearly alike with nearly identical menus even though they are each individually owned. The menus include classic hamburger fare, Mexican food and always a few Greek items. Best value available for lunch on the road.

My friend grew up on an Army base in Greece and speaks the language fluently. If he ordered in Greek we always got free food!