Opa! Greek Yeeros is open

[teko.livejournal.com]

They just opened today in the former Kickass Cupcakes space. I stopped by this afternoon; they have a choice of chicken, pork, or beef/lamb gyros (or "yeeros" as they call them), salads, kebabs, hummus, soups, and spanakopita. They also make their own yogurt -- I got a cup of the stuff topped with Greek honey and fresh figs, and it was rich and very tasty. Their menu, hours, etc are here.

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[ron_newman]

"Yeeros" is a closer approximation than "Gyros" of the Greek pronunciation.

Their website does not have the name of the restaurant anywhere on the front page.

[teko.livejournal.com]

Both points are very true!

I asked how business had been so far and they said "short and sweet".

[guthmeister.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[leafshimmer.livejournal.com]

Love to hear a review of the spanakopita. I'm a vegetarian and I don't like raw onions so the menu as it stands isn't all that intriguing to me.

[serious-noir.livejournal.com]

Someone disabuse me of my notions: I've always been creeped out by "Gyros" – knowing that that hunk of meat sits there all day going round-and-round. I guess it is kept warm enough (!?) so bacteria doesn't grow but it has always seemed like the rotisserie-mystery-meat-from-hell sort of thing.

But no doubt it is tasty because... why else, right?

But spanakopita is yummy

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

doner kebab by any name is freaking delicious. There's a bit of an art to making sure you aren't the first slice off the log and not the last, but generally speaking this is excellent street food as long as you can eat beef and lamb and not much care which is which.

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

The yogurt they seemed to be serving tonight was being dished on to the cold-table out of a 2 gallon (maybe 3?) commercial bucket. Why do you think they make their own? (It's not impossible that they either used that bucket just as a starter, or have it left over from some other yogurty venture, or something...)

[teko.livejournal.com]

I asked where they get their yogurt (hoping they'd say "Sofia's", because I love that stuff), and the guy scooping it out of the bucket said "we make our own yogurt every day".

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

Tonight: They were understaffed, the HVAC was mucked up for a while and the place was sweltering, and when my food was finally ready, they got my order wrong in 2 different ways - and it was only... ok.

I'll certainly give them another try in a few weeks, but my initial impression was unimpressive.

[pakoo.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you're going to give them another try. I also was there last night and sort of had the same first impression....although they were trying so hard--you could really see an effort in their work, despite the fact they need to work a few details out. I am also chalking it up to just starting out and will also go back to support them. I hope they succeed.

[tiggrstaar.livejournal.com]

I had the same experience. The doors were open the day I was there because it was hot but not an excessively hot out just a nice one. The guy taking orders was super slow and there was one person in front of me taking a long long time to finish her normal size order.

When I got it I thought it wasn't super tasty as in not bad at all but not with very strong flavors. They did get one part wrong too even though I asked for it twice. I thought the meat I got in my gyro was kinda grisly too.

One other weird thing is the chairs by the register so if someone sits there you have to stand awkwardly while ordering almost but not quite standing in someone's lap.

I think it's possible they could overcome these things but I really wanted it to be amazing. I may check it out again later.