Cheap as chips!
5 of the best traditional
grill-rooms for the empty
of pocket and hungry
of stomach
I
n the warmer months of the year we spend every possi- order of the day – grilled (chops, pork souvlakia, meatballs
ble eating-out opportunity at the many seaside tavernas and cutlets) or spit-roast (pork, chicken, served with chips
available to us, or at least somewhere that offers a pleasant or wrapped up in pita bread along with chips, tzatziki and
al fresco experience. Most of these establishments close tomato sauce. This particular snack is the equivalent of fish
up for winter though, and our dining experiences change and chips in England and is probably the cheapest, tastiest
dramatically, along with the weather. The economic climate stomach filler ever (unless you’re a vegetarian of course…)
being what it is, now is the time to embrace cheap eats, and
nowhere is the food better or cheaper than at the following, Try the pork kondosouvli – meltingly tender chunks of spit
our favourite non-economically challenging eateries. roast pork; it’s delicious! Witness the steady stream of lo-
cals coming in to collect their takeaway orders and you will
These ‘psistaries’ (grill-rooms) are no-frills, paper table- soon realize that these places are institutions in Greece and
cloth and plastic chair kinds of places. The TV is always on nothing like trashy UK kebab joints who target the pub-clos-
in the corner and you probably won’t be offered a menu; ing-time crowd.
instead the waiter will reel off the day’s specials. Meat is the
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