Joy

My Fiancee and I are traveling to Greece for our honeymoon this summer, and are excited to imerse ourselves in the culture as much as possible. Does anyone have a favorite local dish for us to try? How about any to stay away from? What was your best/worst experience there? Thanks!

Sheila

Joy <BR> <BR>Try everything. I hate Dakos and Horta (look them up!) but you should try everything. You may love them. <BR> <BR>The puddings are honey based. the less honey, the better the pudding. <BR> <BR>It's a wonderful country; and off the beaten track at least, people could not be nicer.

bly

Joy: The best yogurt I've ever had was in Greece! Also, we liked the tsziki (sp) Its an appetizer made with yogurt, garlic, cucumbers, S&P and you dip bread into it. (Kind of like the sauce you get with Gyros, but thicker) All our meals were very good though.

Thyra

The yogurt is really wonderful and their honey is thicker then most honey you get in the US every morning I had yogurt liberally drizzled with this super thick honey.. yum. Also got into spinach and cheese pies which you can get anywhere, they make a great snack I also had a dish that my host called simply "giant Beans" now that sounds kind of nasty, but I coudn't eat enough of these things.

MARIA

I AM FROM GREECE AND I FIRST WANT TO TELL YOU THAT I FEEL VERY HAPPY THAT YOU CHOSE MY COUNTRY FOR YOUR HONEYMOON. <BR>YOU HAVE TO TRY THE GYROS( WHICH IS ALSO CALLED SOUVLAKI).THE BEST GYROS I HAVE HAD IN GREECE WAS IN CRETE, AT HERAKLEIO.ANOTHER FOOD THAT I THINK IS WORTH TRYING IS DOLMADAKIA AND GEMISTA AND OF COURSE THE GREEK SALAD,THE GREEK OLIVES AND TZATZIKI!!!! HAVE FUN

Joanna

I remember a wonderful breakfast on the road at a tiny village in the Peloponnese of fresh yoghurt and honey. Yum! Also the Greek coffee, baklava, enormous fresh strawberries from Kavala, fresh pistachios from a street vendor at Antirion, souvlaki in Iraklion and a wonderful meal of fresh swordfish at a waterfront restaurant at Symi.

Susan

I love Greek food. Do you have some good Greek restaurants where you live? We happen to live close to the Greek neighbourhood in Toronto, so we're lucky. <BR> <BR>We were also in Greece in September and we always had good meals. As everyone has said, the yogurt is wonderful. Yogurt and honey at breakfast is a staple. (The rest of the breakfast was usually hard boiled eggs, bread and jam, cheese, sometimes cereal, sometimes cookies, etc.) The produce was also amazing - wonderful tomatoes, etc. The capers on Naxos were great! Lamb is really common and good - cooked in several different ways. Also wine sausages were on several menus. Of course, salads are very common, usually Greek salads with wonderful feta. <BR> <BR>One thing we both like is frappe. It's like an iced coffee made with Nescafe and milk. (For some reason, Nescafe is really common in Greece.) We drank lots of frappes. <BR> <BR>I found that Greek restaurants were much more varied than they were years ago. Crepes were really popular - both sweet and savoury. Pizza and pasta as well. So if you find you don't like Greek food (and I really can't imagine that!), you'll still find lots to eat there. <BR> <BR>

Paige

Man, do I love Greek food! Greek salads, fava (a bean dip with onions on top), swordfish souvlaki, spinach pie, baklava and everything that looks like it, baked eggplant with tomatoes and onions, 'Big Beans' (large white beans in a tomato sauce with onions), spinach and rice, yum, yum, yum!! I've never had ANY bad food in Greece! Oh yeah, tzaziki (yogurt dip), roe dip, eggplant salad, olives... You lucky dog!

Joy

I just wanted to thank you all for your suggestions! I will be sure to let you all know how it goes!

xxx

I was recently in Greece and thought the food was terrible for the most part. ps. I am not a fussy eater.

Paige

Have you seen Matt Barrett's website,greecetravel.com? It has a lot of really interesting info on it. Here's the link to his page on Greek food: <BR>http://www.athensguide.com/food.html <BR>It has names and descriptions. <BR>No, I'm not selling his website or whatever. I just like it and used it a lot when planning my last trip to Greece.

Kam

The tomatos in Greece are too die for! They are the best I have ever had! Also the great fresh seafood on the islands! The octopus!