MICHELINE-STARRED CHEF & RESTAURANTEUR YIANNI BAXEVANIS RETURNS TO ASTORIA’S ATHENS TAVERN TO OFFER
“A TASTE OF GREECE” WITH EXCLUSIVE 5-COURSE TASTING MENU
Friday, November 23rd through Monday, November 26th
Photo credit Athens Tavern: Kyle Erin Schmitz.
After recently opening Contemporary Cretan eatery Athens Tavern (23-01 31st Street Astoria, NY 11105, Phone: (718) 267-0800) in late September in […]
Chef/Partner Jim Botsacos has made Molyvos Manhattan’s Finest Greek restaurant. Definitely equal to the best of Athens upscale, creative Greek examples.
Molyvos introduces a Modern New Menu, Exclusive Wines, and Ancient Greek Art in Celebration of its 10th Anniversary
The milestone event showcases innovative cuisine and privately owned Greek art during the month of November
The […]
Award-winning website, Punchin-dot-com, features the Walman Report and reviews of restaurants, travel, wine and theater. After a two-year hiatus, famed restaurateur Gus is back in a new Greenwich Village space. He has reinvented Gus’ Place by recently bringing in the best chef he has ever worked with, acclaimed Greek chef Christos (formerly at Molyvos Milos and Avra Christos combines authentic Greek cooking with innovative flavors, lightness, and texture. Although his new seasonal, regional Greek menus are influenced by his mother and grandmother’s home cooking, his personal inspiration and broader European training bring a fresh approach to traditional Greek cuisine. Christos’ new Greek menus are sustained by the old classics as well as enhanced by various new dishes, including small plates (appetizers for sharing). offering Greek-Mediterranean menus in a warm, rustic taverna. The restaurant also sells a variety of imported Greek food products – honey, coffee, country tea, olive oil, fig jams, wild herbs, and olives. All at modest prices: The cozy walnut bar with Mediterranean mosaic tiles in front features a predominantly Greek wine list. The Intimate, rustic ambiance offers a country dining Room, enhanced by a 12-foot high painted tin ceiling, walnut tables and chairs, earth-colored banquettes, and French doors opening onto an outdoor porch to create a cottage setting like a Greek island village. Gus’ Place, 192 Bleecker Street, (Between MacDougal Street & 6th Avenue) rates A Minor on the Walman Report. For a free subscription, visit www dot Punchin dot com on the net.
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(After a two-year hiatus, famed restaurateur
Gus Theodoro is back in a new Greenwich
Village space. He has reinvented Gus’ Place
by recently bringing in the best chef he has
ever worked with, acclaimed Greek chef
Christos Christou (formerly at Molyvos, Milos,
Avra, Trata, and Ammos). Christos combines
authentic Greek cooking with innovative flavors,
lightness, and texture. Although his new seasonal,
regional Greek menus are influenced by his mother and
grandmother’s home cooking, his personal inspiration
and broader European training bring a fresh approach
to traditional Greek cuisine. Christos’ new Greek menus
are sustained by the old classics as well as enhanced
by various new dishes, including small plates/mezedes
(appetizers for sharing). The restaurant also sells a
variety of imported Greek food products – honey, coffee,
country tea,olive oil, fig jams, wild herbs, and olives.)
Award-winning website, Punchin-dot-com, features the Walman Report and reviews of restaurants, travel, wine and theater. After a two-year hiatus, famed restaurateur Gus is back in a new Greenwich Village space. He has reinvented Gus’ Place by recently bringing in the best chef he has ever worked with, acclaimed Greek chef Christos (formerly at Molyvos Milos and Avra Christos combines authentic Greek cooking with innovative flavors, lightness, and texture. Although his new seasonal, regional Greek menus are influenced by his mother and grandmother’s home cooking, his personal inspiration and broader European training bring a fresh approach to traditional Greek cuisine. Christos’ new Greek menus are sustained by the old classics as well as enhanced by various new dishes, including small plates (appetizers for sharing). offering Greek-Mediterranean menus in a warm, rustic taverna. The restaurant also sells a variety of imported Greek food products – honey, coffee, country tea, olive oil, fig jams, wild herbs, and olives. All at modest prices: The cozy walnut bar with Mediterranean mosaic tiles in front features a predominantly Greek wine list. The Intimate, rustic ambiance offers a country dining Room, enhanced by a 12-foot high painted tin ceiling, walnut tables and chairs, earth-colored banquettes, and French doors opening onto an outdoor porch to create a cottage setting like a Greek island village. Gus’ Place, 192 Bleecker Street, (Between MacDougal Street & 6th Avenue) rates A Minor on the Walman Report. For a free subscription, visit www dot Punchin dot com on the net.
Ovelia
Address 34-01 30th Avenue (corner of 34th St) Astoria, NY 11103
Phone 718-721-7217
Specialty Dishes from the Grill-Authentic Greek meats & seafood Schedule
Open for Lunch & Dinner seven days: Lunch: Monday
Sunday 11:30 am to 5 pm. Dinner: Sunday to Thursday 5:30 pm to 11:00 pm Friday- Saturday 5:30 pm to 12:00 Midnight. Brunch: 11:30 am to 3:30 […]
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