Gyro

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Over 800 people, Greeks and non-Greeks alike, lined up at a restaurant near Victoria Square in central Athens to receive their complimentary chicken gyro sandwich. Lights twinkling in the trees outside, lively music and decorations welcomed customers to the grand opening of Al-Thekali, an Arab-Greek restaurant which offers cuisine that caters to Athens's diverse residents.

If army cook Thomas Deliopoulos had been told a decade ago that one day his food would be the subject of a review in The New York Times, he would have simply laughed out loud.

Luke Bryan and Jimmy Fallon performed an amazing little song about the Greek gyros in “The Tonight Show”!

Apparently it is not clear to the non Greeks what the word’s pronunciation really is. And they seem so frustrated over this, that they…wrote about it!

A Sydney dessert bar has introduced a saccharin equivalent of the doner kebab, complete with a rotating white and milk chocolate rotisserie, which is shaved as it spins.

Dulwich Hill’s Tella Balls Dessert Bar, which is best known for their over-the-top doughnut-topped tella ball milkshakes, is calling their new creation the “tellabab”.

No, it’s not a practical joke and it’s not a “shock advertisement”, it’s an actual an popular gyro shop operating on the Venice, California boardwalk named none other than “Malaka Brothers”!

Lady Gaga posted a photo of herself on Instagram doing gyrotonics… but she did not neglect to mention that it was not the Greek gyro type.

Readers of news website Radikal have selected Turkey’s top restaurants to eat doner kebab - a Turkish dish made of meat cooked on a vertical rotisserie, normally lamb but sometimes beef or chicken. Here is the list

Leave it to an expatriate Greek, especially a restaurateur, to come up with a unique way to trump up business. For Dimitris Kotsalas, 62, Monday’s crucial Euro summit was the inspiration for dishes named after some of the protagonists in the current “Greek issue” drama — Greek PM Alexis Tsipras, Dutch FinMin and Eurogroup head Jeroen Dijsselbloem and even Greek FinMin Yanis Varoufakis.

A new way to eat gyros has been invented by a new Greek restaurant, SVL Bar, set to open soon on Astoria Boulevard, New York City. Specifically "gyro shots" have been invented. These mini-versions of the classic Greek pita-wrapped meat with various salads and sauces will come served in four inches of pita bread and be placed in a shot glass.