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Originally Posted by Stu from NYC
Wish they offered good gyros
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OMG that'd be awesome. Old fashioned Greek food truck food would be great. I went to Amerikano's when we first moved in, I was excited to have a Greco-American restaurant. Got the falafel sandwich. I told them I wanted extra tahini. They brought me the sandwich and I was SO annoyed - it wasn't tahini at all. It was tzatziki. The waiters either didn't listen to my request, or didn't know there was a difference between the two things.
I didn't eat, ended up at World of Beer and got a burger. Never went back to Amerikano's.
What I'd love: a SYRIAN joint that has very similar street food to Greek food, oddly enough. Gyros, baba ganoush (I don't like eggplant but it's very popular), falafel in syrian pita (that puffy stuff they sell here in Central Florida is Greek pita - Syrian pita is flat and 2-layered, you slit a bit off the edge and stuff the inside with whatever you want, and wrap the bottom un-slit part in foil so it doesn't drip all over your shirt), or a feta salad with crisp chunks of lettuce, diced tomatoes, diced red onion, halved pitted calamata olives, imported MOIST feta smeared all along the bottom half of the bread, topped generously with home-made tahini dressing.
I make the salad here at home often enough but there's just something magickal about getting it stuffed in a slightly-charred syrian pita from a food truck.