Greek Festival This Weekend In Irvine

Opa! The 36th annual “A Taste of Greece” at St. Paul's Greek Orthodox Church in Irvine is this weekend. There will be vendors selling gyros, pastichio (Greek lasagna), loucanico (Greek sausage), spanakopita (spinach and feta pie), dolmathes...

This is the one. At its 32nd year, this is arguably the grand-daddy of all OC food festivals. This is “A Taste of Greece” at St. Paul's Greek Orthodox Church in Irvine. ] Of course, there will be vendors selling gyros, pastichio (Greek lasagna),...

Costa Mesa's The Whole Pita (a.k.a. “The Greek Island Grill”) is now known as “Thasos – Greek Island Grille”.  Same owners, same food (for the most part), but a new name.  Why did the place pull a Sean “Puff Daddy/P. Diddy/Diddy” Combs on us? I...

Go Greek Yogurt isn’t another frozen yogurt joint. Yes, it does do frozen yogurt, but it isn’t all it does. It specializes in savory dishes based on yogurt. One dish has the yogurt topped with Greek sundried tomatoes, pine nuts, Greek crumbled...

I am not sure why they always seem to come in twos. This week, both Ajisen Ramen and Greek Islands debuted. Ajisen was already doing decent business at 4 P.M. yesterday,  attracting a few looky-loos like myself. Greek Islands, on the other hand,...