25 GREEK Dishes To Try 🇬🇷 | Food + Drink in Greece 

Just a small correction here, Greek refugees did not come back to their native country, their ancestors had been living in what is today Turkey for 2500 years up until 1920's. So they left their ancestral places to come to Greece as refugees. They were ethnic Greeks but modern Greek state was not their native country. Considering that a 5 million Greece at the time had to absorb 1.5 million refugees overnight, you can understand that their influence in mainland Greek culture was massive. Bougatsa is one of thousands of these influences.

Greek person here... I would like to applaud your pronunciation... You did a pretty great job! Just two things... Dolmades are not only made with vine leaves, they can also be made with cabbage leaves, or onions. Also keftedes come in an array of types made for example with courgette, tomato, onion, kaseri (a type of cheese) and the list goes on... I hope you enjoy your stay and you visit other places of our country and not just the capital.

Greek food is very tasty! The Greeks are very hospitable! The Greeks gave the world a great civilization! Greek civilization is 10,000 years old. Athens the great city of the world! Hello everyone from California! Thanks for the wonderful excursion!

many of the ottoman dishes you mention pre-existed the arrival of the ottomans, but were integrated into their cuisine as well during their stay, bugatsa for example was made during east roman times.

Excellent job as a Greek person i enjoyed your introduction of the Greek food and coffee and etc. Nice job 😁 thank you!!!

I'm Greek and i can say for sure that's the best guide i've ever watched and totally accurate

This is superb. Any other youtube video on Greek gastronony doesn't hold up a candle to this gem. Well done.

We just came back from 2 weeks touring in Greece, loved the video, brought back great memories!

You may have the ONLY video on RU-vid where the Greek words are pronounced well- and I’ve watched many. Thank you for not butchering the language as it’s not that difficult. I enjoyed the video very much!

OMG! I have not see any other video that presents Greek foods like yours. It is like a little encyclopedia of Greek cuisine. Quick, short but enough to describe each item. Excellent job.

amazing video, thanks for sharing!

Thank you very much for your visit to my country!!!! Excellent video!!! Thank you again!!!! 😃😃😃

Glad to hear from you 📚

Amazing video!! Excellent!!

Great video! Many thanks

I would like to thank you for visiting my country and making a video out of Greek food. I see you are very knowledgeable also on history culture and food and I would like to congratulate you for that.

Just recently traveled to Athens and Kreta Island. Oh mannn! I am amazed by the beauty of that country. Greek food is a mixture of the Middle East, very flavorful and creamy. There’s a pastry stores in every corner streets and coffee shops. To greek, that’s breakfast for them. And I’m very surprised that a lot of Greek smoke, even as young as 14 years old 😳.

You earned a sub with this. Wonderful, knowledgeable presentation. Best wishes.

So much energy. I was half asleep and the way you talk just woke me up XD

Very well done. Thank you!

Great presentation,great city

I have to say your pronunciation is spot on! I am quite impressed! Bravo

Very nice informative video. Thank you

Being from NYC , I've had a lot of Greek food. I'm sure it's a little different in Greece. We had a great restaurant in downtown NYC called the Delphi, but it closed years ago. Nice to see your lovely video s.

I was so impressed with the way you pronounced the “geia sas” at the beginning. I’m Greek and I can’t say it so well.

I like the Greek cookies with the powdered sugar. I like souvlaki, Greek hamburger, gyro, pastitsio, moussaka, feta cheese, the rice with the red sauce sprinkled on it, and a few other dishes.

The best food in the world!!!!!only Greece!!! Oooppaaa!!

I've always wanted to travel to Greece. It looks so beautiful

This is awesome!! I wish you were in my life lol

Thank you

you're being so genuinely enthusiastic in your videos, this is contagious!

Really good 👍

Clever and beautiful? Dangerous combination. Love the video , quite accurate. Bravo!

complimenti signorina con begli occhi...........μπραβο!!!!!

You are super!!!!!!

As a Proud Greek here, I have to say I love that girls attitude pronation, and I can also feel her love towards Our amazing country ❤️❤️ And by the way I also like everything she showed apart from Tsipouro.. She is pretty near to my taste 👍👍Gorgeous video. Congratulations 😘

Sovlaki & Baklava🔥🔥🔥❤️❤️❤️

A very informative video. Learned lots and can’t wait to be there. Will appreciate the name of the sandwich place in a corner that you recommended. Thanks 🫶🏻

Excellent description of Greek food!! Thank you!!!

I miss my captain nikolaos chroniapolos very good captain in marmaras he always give me greek food and one of my favorite gyro with pita, gemista, pastichio, musaka, pacis, gigantis, souvlaki, fasolakia, briam, horta, And dessert that i love baclavas, halvas, galaktoboreko, loukomades, and many more hehe i forget the other. i hope to see u again my good captain greetings from Phillipines your messboy before 😊🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭

mm, greek salad looks like a healthy thing to make at home.

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melitzanosalata - aubergine/garlic oily slop = but it tastes amazing with crusty bread

Great video! Good job! From an Athenian!

awesome! what are the names of the restaurants where you got all this food? we are going to Greece pretty soon and we have to idea where to eat

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You love octupus?! Instant follower :DD

I love you ❤

Me too Greek siuuuuu

Spanakopita with a bit of ketchup on the side and ice cold frappe (I hate coffee but frappe is my guilty pleasure). Also, ice cold Ouzo for breakfast gets you ready for the day!

im also a "glyko" koffee person 😅

hi i would like to inform you that the meat on the skewers is not originated from othomans is way older and is from ancient greece it was called kandavlos .

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Hey beautiful your post is making fall in love 😘😘 ......

I want to go to greece too :(

Hi.. What is the name of the dessert at 11:18 ??? (sticky orange cake) once I visited Greece, I ate this one... it was super sweet and I cannot forget it... and I am looking for it name....for 10 yrs....

You forget γαλακτομπούρεκο..... Best of best...... 😉

How does the , bring the seafood to a restaurant work in the central athens market?

I’m glad you taught us how to order. It’s the least you can do when visiting another country. I’ll definitely be ordering in Greek!

you are soooo wrong saying that souvlaki and other foods/deserts (like bougatsa pastry or koulouri) are ottoman dishes. ottomans (and not Turks-yes there is a difference) were nomads and had little to nearly none cuisine culture because of their way of life. ottomans took (stole but ok) all the byzantine cuisine (food and deserts) when they conquired Konstantinoupolis in 1453. so next time be careful when you are refering to such issues especially when you may be wrong !

I forgive you. There is only one MACEDONIA and (surprize) IT'S Greek since 4th century BC, since these guys are around at about 7nd centrury AD.

我是新加坡公民，我周游列国，吃过不少食物，就要尝尝你这个美女介绍的，就是觉得你那边没有米饭都是吃小麦产品，就不知道好不好吃，谢谢你的介绍，You should be a foodie. I must come and try what you introduced.

Gyros; fries or no fries? Let the battle begin! I've seen a few sources on RU-vid that claim gyros served as street food in Greece always have fries in them. However, I've eaten at a lot of Greek restaurants in America that are owned and run by authentic Greek immigrant families, and fries are never even metioned as an option. So which is it?

I am greek

Next time try galaktoboureko γαλακτομπούρεκο. In my humble opinion is better than cheesecake.

Also when you want your coffee unbelievable sweet cause I am to a psychopath like you you say "petimezi" 😂😂

Are you a Greek American because your accent in Greek is very good?

πογατσα= погача > pogatcha. Refuges settled in 1921 are not Macedonians but Pontic origin from Turkey .

😍 English Accent long gone far behind 😄🌷except when drinking alcohol LOL

Is that Charlotte you look like someone I used to know

Koulouri is not Ottoman, the name comes from Ancient Greek Kollix-Kollyra. There were 72 different kinds of bread in Ancient Greece, Kollyra was probably the slaves bread originally made from coarsely ground rye.

Lot of recipe quite similar to turkey

Baklava is a Turkish dish 🇦🇿🇹🇷🇰🇬🇰🇿🇺🇿🇹🇲🇭🇺

Greek food has been named numerous times the healthiest cuisine globally so i wouldnt call it unhealthy

Everyone talking about fancy coffee, the only coffee I can drink is 3/4 part sugary water and milk and 1/4 part weak coffee before my body complaining. Is that fancy enough? 😂😂😂😂

Your profile is Greek, you like much Greece, your colours are Greek..... check your DNA. George

She's cute

Habibi.....Come to India 🙌🏻

Lovely video. The foods are similar to all the other Mediterranean foods, with slight variations. But you forgot kunafa! 😮

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I love Greek food

You forgot loukoumades!!

Dolma is not Ottoman please. It existed in the Greek Constantinople cousin long before the ottomans. As well as many of the dishes ottomans have. Yes they have ottoman names but they are not ottoman food.

I'm sorry but when you talk about influences in Greece, before you mention Ottomans or Romans, you have to mention what influence the Byzantines and Alexander the Great had on the world before them.

Stop eating your nails my love 😍 xxxxxx

12,000 years The Greeks were living before the word " Romans " came around without any passages or texts --- plagiarisms taken from the Greeks ; and now...your yapping snapping mouth word salad.

You mean that the most of the Greek food are from the Othman empire? I think that you sould know that before this Turkish empire it was the Byzantine empire that it was for about 1200 years! And this founds was Greek foods that was stolen from us! Before any videos make a research first!

U are more greeķ than the greeks!!

Born place, Democratic

Utopia

Nice Greek (Turkish) Foods

Greece introduces ottoman foods better than us.We do not want to be an eastern country that does not produce and moves away from the world.(as a turk)

Greek here, this lady has no clue where the food comes from, how it’s pronounced and not sure why she is comparing Greek to middle eastern, unsubscribed..

You are in Greece not in Turkey

Omg youre wrong in things in the video. First of all theres no Ottoman or italian anywhere in greek cuisine. Everything the Ottomans know about cuisine its been taken from Byzantine the Arabs and Persia (todays Iran). Dolmades which the proper name is Αμπελοφυλλα γεμιστά which has roots in Ancient Greece. Skewers which are called kalamaki from the Ancient Greece where they would fish with the calami (bamboo) and use little sticks from them to grill fish n lamb and goats. Pork gyros did not exist until 1980. Everything its called souvlaki even the yeero. Pastitsio has nothing to do with lasagna. Greek meatsauce has cinnamon and all spice italians do not these in their bolognese. Koulouri its not Ottoman it goes back in Ancient Greece. Ottomans didnt even had seeds. Youre stuck in Ottoman not realizing that greeks lived in what is modern Turkey 100s of years before ottomans stepped foot in the region. Basic history....

Why would you create a video of Greek food and witter on about the Ottomans, the Arabs...even Iceland? Its crazy. If you went to Iceland would you talk about Greek food? Just stay on topic. Also, the accent placed on your pronunciation of Greek words is incorrect.

Forgive me but there are no influences from Italians, on the contrary we were conquered by the Romans and they were influenced by our food, for example in ancient Greece they cooked a dish for the dead called MAKARON, hence the word today. (blessed , makaritis) which means dead. They took it to their homeland Italy and named it (MAKARONI) today in your language spaghetti. The same happens with the Turks who were warriors without culture and tradition and actually stole us. Even traditional dances. Now that they have taken food one level higher it is true. In Istanbul are the best restaurants with flavors that do not exist in Greece. Greece was influenced by other things, even pizza existed under another name. I'm not lying to you, everyone is influenced by Greek culture and tradition, even your books and world history, but I drown when I hear that we were influenced by barbarians, while all this was already here.

Stop calling Greek food ottoman!!!! Ottomans were nomadic people, who just included dishes from older and more culturaly developed nations such as Persians,Greeks, Armenians,Arabs... in their own cuisine