I had "gyros" first when I lived in nyc but whatever they're putting there is total trash and I thought it was average at best. But gyros in Greece is on another level. The way it should be done and one of the best street foods out there
You are correct. Do not trust 'Greek food' abroad. It is rarely good and even more rarely Greek. To be honest, even in Greece, to find good gyros/souvlaki/etc nowadays you need to do some research
problem in the usa is everything is an import and somewhere techniques are lost, ingredients differ, with the best will in the world foods in the states are always poor imitations of those in their country of origin. and what the usa has done to bread (the factory commercial products) is a crime against humanity.
@@ozgurkurtoglu6005 I have tried both and I like them both, as a Greek. You cannot try pork gyros if you are religious, thus you cannot suggest one is better than the other. Both are great and go with different things. The process might seem the same but the experience is different.
Yeah, I was just thinking about that. I am Greek, new in Germany, last week found myself in rural NW. And even there, at a village, there was a Greek guy making gyros. There might be things I miss from home but grilled food isn't one of them. 😂
@@jimmy2035 We also have American Food but mostly fast food chains. If you want to find good American Food you need to go to specific places or you just go to some German "Imbisse" where you can also get a burger for example in most cases or at least a "Frikadellenbrötchen". Some Germans might argue that this is also German food but I think the quality Burgers we know from today were developed like this by Americans. That's one thing I am proud of in my country tho. You can literally find restaurants of all kind, not authentic all the time (especially Chinese/South East Asian Restaurants) but a lot of them are. Germany is just in the middle of every culture and also because of migration these cultures clash and create some amazing food. For example: you will find places that put kebab meat on a pizza which is crazy 😂
Gyros styles vary from region to region, city to city. The size, sauces, condiments, and spicing can vary greatly. Up north in Thessaloniki they put ketchup and mustard! Heathens 😂
@@kristaps5296 which genocides? Denying and whitewashing own genocides is something the so called humane west is the number one champion worlwide. There is a whole system including politics, bureaucracy, media and ngo's which interact like machine in doing everything to denying it. Right now there is genocide comittet in front of us but nobody cares and acts like there is none. On the other hand every country which is not part of your west is always evil and commits genocides when there is none. Thats how you want to rule the world and thats why you are no trustworthy people.
@@OG-ge8nuhahahaha, Greece is one of the oldest counties on the planet buddy. Funny how you think Greece learned from the mongols while its the other way around
@@OG-ge8nu yes sure, the Greeks with a 1500 years old civilization (that period) were waiting for the horse rider Turks to teach them how to cook as they cooked in the steppes of Asia.
Gyros is so big in Greece, i just stumbled upon this youtube video while eating gyros lol! For the first timers, When you order a gyro, you say i want 1)a pita with 2)type of meat( pork or chicken gyro, or pork/chicken skewer or beef patty or sausage) and 3) toppings (tzatziki or mustard sause, tomatos, onions etc). The standard version is: For pork meat: tzatziki sause, tomatos, onions and fries (if it is a traditional place they may not add fries and you may need to say you want them as extra topping) For chicken meat: mustard sause, tomato, lettuce and fries (same rule about fries) So now you know you can either say for example I want a pita with pork gyro and with everything (standard version) or you customise it.
@@astroboirap Incorrect and only your opinion. Meanwhile in reality did you know that World Taste Atlas Put Pita Gyros nr 1 of best street food on earth? It completely wiped out Turkis Doner/ Kebab which is ranked way lower. OUCH. Also. We don't use low quality ingredients like in Turkey. Did you know that even this year based on the biggest study in Europe, the most adulterated honeys in Europe are Turkish and Chinese? Meaning. The lowest quality honey completely mixed with sugars and syrups, chemicals and bad things. Greece is not like Turkey. It's way better, way better quality of ingredients and recipes. Now sit back and eat that low ranked Turkish snack of yours
For anyone who wants to give them a try, the souvlaki shops that are shown in this video are: Achilleas in Neos Kosmos (best gyros in Athens, awarded by the no1 gastronomy magazine in Greece) And Lefteris o Politis in Omonoia and Syntagma Square (best "kebab" in Athens, also awarded)
In northern Greece (thessaloniki/makedonia etc ) they serve different versions of gyros, in thick bread and with many other different types of sauce as well, p.ex. with cheese (tirokafteri), with various types of spice etc etc
I'm a native Texan, but the gyros I've had (with tzatziki) at Greek restaurants have been among my very favorite foods. I could be mistaken, but I thought the gyros I've had were made of lamb.
The ones made in the States are a Beef & Lamb Combination. In Greece, the traditional ones are: Pork or Chicken But you can also find with Beef & Lamb as well, just not as popular as the first two. Try the Pork & Chicken Ones in Greece, you will remember me! 👍🏻
As an italian my opinion what make GYROS the best street food from different Mediterranea or Arab/Turkish street. Food. It's the delicious crispy pork....and the Greek oregano. what else!
The beauty of Gyros is that you will not have the same in all of Greece - for example, let's say you get a Gyros with chicken. In some restaurants in Athens, they will give you tzatziki sauce and in some others, "pink" sauce (mustard and ketchup). In Thessaloniki, they can even put ketchup! In Corfu, its common to put their "special" red sauce.
In Thessaloniki, pita-gyros is double size and with bigger variety of sauces. Tzatziki is not standard, my recommendation is to ask for paprika (pepper sauce, slightly spicy). Fries also come by default.
I'm sure it is very nice, but a local bar near my university used to serve the best damn pizzas in the whole Northern Europe. The guy who runs the place is origically Greek, funny enough (the best pizzas in Southern Europe are made by his brother, who lives in Greece). But then they changed their menu, and exchanged those pizzas for gyros. I was deeply disappointed. Those pizzas were so perfect: the perfect thin crust, just the right amounf of toppins and in perfect balance. God I miss those pizzas.
What made gyros the most popular food, apart from the taste, was the low price as well. But now the prices almost doubled making it sometimes more expensive than a burger.
You will not find a burger that is cheaper than a gyro in Greece. Even a miserable hamburger without cheese will be at least 0.50€ more expensive than a pork gyro. Most burgers in Greece go for 6-7€, sometimes even double that if it's from a specialized burger joint.
@@TheJohn_Highway apparently I cannot post links. Anyway. I ordered gyros 4 days ago and I paid 3.80. There is burger joint that the base burger costs 3.60. And 3.80 for gyros is astronomical compared to how much it cost 5 years ago. Not to mention even earlier.
The part of the United States I'm from you can find shops all over who have Gyros some better then others, my favorite way is lamb with just grilled onion .
Stuff in the states is nothing like the native one, when greeks look at the gyros in the states they feel uncanny because the meat there is usually processed and like grounded (greeks call it plastic as a joke), here in greece is always fresh pork meat or chicken if you are dieting!
@@icantmeme4378 Which is strange, because all other spit meats in the US, like doner, shawarma, and al pastor are just cut meat on skewers. I wonder why it became this ground thing (usually beef or lamb) in the US (I don't love it, either, that's why I usually give gyros a miss here in the US.
I'm here as a Greek to approve this message. No matter where i travel in the whole world, from Brazil to Thailand, my first meal will be local cuisine, second meal of the day "let's find some gyros".
I live in America and visited several European and Middle Eastern countries. I tried gyros, doner, and shawarma in several places including their original countries. I would rank them as the following: 1. Shawarma 2. Gyros 3. Doner
Can somebody explain to me what’s the difference and where to draw the line between gyros and shawarma I’m in country where Greek cuisine is way too hard to find out And usually it is super expensive
Shawarma : Middle Eastern (Levantine to be exact) version of the dish. Made with lamb, beef or chicken meat in flattened pieces form (in general. If you want pork it becomes Al Pastor thanks to Lebanese immigrants brought and updated the recipe in Mexico). Döner: Turkish version (The OG version all of these some people say) It started as horizontal stacked version called "Cağ Kebap" (made with only lamb) and 2 centruies and hundreds of kilometers west on Anatolia later, it became vertical and beef started to use in minced form. In modern days it can be made with chicken / lamb / beef / even spicy sausage meat called sucuk in Turkey. During the 70s this dish brought into Europe (Germany/Austria) by Turkish workers / immigrants and it evolved into a new version which contains lots of veggies & sauces. Gyros: Whatever you see in this video is way more enough to explain gyros in my opinion so i don't have anything to add other than Greek immigrants that moved to USA created a version made with fully minced meat and drown that meat with tatziki sauce and they're calling that Gyros too (with wrong pronounciation by English speakers of course :)
@@phdimakopoulos543 If you read my message better, you would understand that i was mentioning the Americanized version of "gyros" in USA brought by Greek immigrants made it like that not the Greeks in Greece ;)
I think in the United States, the meat is usually beef and lamb? The ideal gyros is pita, meat, tomato, onion, and sauce. Nothing more, nothing less. 😊
Came here because the place in my neighborhood adds pickles and lettuce. They always look so confused when I tell them taziki and tomato only. But I just learned that they are Moroccan so now this makes sense 😂
@erdemozcan5435 buzuki is a middle eastern instrument not a turkish one. Buzuki has 3 strigs while the greek buzuki has 6. An instrument similar to modern buzuki is represented in the temple of parthenon in the acropolis. The ancient greeks called it pandourida. It s a predecessor of the lute, of the buzuki, of the lyra etc all those instruments existed in ancient greece. But our national instrument in which our folk songs are written is the flute. You can google greek folk songs like karagouna, itia, amarantos, milo mou kokino etc and you ll see none of our folk songs has bouzouki in it. Bouzouki is mainly played in rebetiko songs songs written after 1930. Our folk songs from the middle ages till now have only flute and guitar. But your mania to say everything greek is turkish stems from your nationalism for which you should find therapy instead of spaming greek videos and me and wasting my time trying to correct the unhistorical lies you write.
completely wrong. Baglama and its derivative instruments are derived from kopuz. Believe me, I am not malicious. As a Turk, I love the Greeks very much and I think we are brothers. But we should not bend the truth about origins. The bouzouki belongs entirely to the Greeks, but the instrument it evolved from is the kopuz, my friend.
@@uzaydaisemekisteyenadam4543 greek bouzouki has more than 3 strings that the organs you describe have 3 strings. Greek bouzouki is a completely other organ it s similar to italian and irish mandoline! For god s sake we are a balkan nation our country lies in europe yours in asia we were always here you came from elsewhere in asia your language is not even european our language is european we lived more than 1000 years with the italians as romans why you think we are the same as you and that we did not have anything before you and now all the stuff we have is yours?
There's no debate about chips inside gyros. In whole Greece we eat it with chips. Some people want to increase their profit. Apart from that, the place looks ideal for... tourists. Very small sandwiches; a Greek would complain.
Souvlaki is only one thing. The thing Athenians, and only Athenians, call kalamaki. What Atheneans call souvlaki, all over Greece except Athens is called "pitta with souvlaki or gyros or ....."
Οι Αθηναίοι μια χαρά το λένε... Όταν οι αρχαίοι Έλληνες πήγαιναν εκστρατείες ένα από τα φαγητά τους ήταν το σουβλάκι καλαμάκι...πήγαιναν στους γύρω βάλτους...κοβανε καλάμια...τα σπαγανε σε καλαμάκια...πέρναγαν κομματάκια κρέατος και τα ψηνανε στις φωτιές. Αυτό που σου γράφω το είδα σε ένα ελληνικό ντοκιμαντέρ με τις τροφικες συνήθειες των Ελλήνων. Κάτι παραπάνω θα ξέρανε από τους Θεσσαλονίκης...
I see that you take gyros from Achilleas in Neos Kosmos area. Top 5 in Athens for sure!!! And Kosta is for sure the best souvlaki in athens with tomato salsa!!
Great video, except it has some mistakes in explaining Greek gyro. The names Souvlaki for all types of gyros and the name Kalamaki are typical of Athens, not the whole of Greece, so this is misleading for people watching this video. In the north of Greece, gyro pita is the cut meat you get in pita bread, and souvlaki are meat skewers, this is something you had to mention the difference between north and south of Greece and the slight difference in names of this amazing food.
@@Jamirio there's no maybe, greek cuisine is bomb, you just never tried it and you're biased. i'm telling you this as a greek-turk mix, both are just top notch.
@@JamirioTasteAtlas: 🇬🇷#2 🦃#18 🦃 has no Seafood Culture, no Pasta Culture, no Coffee Culture. No Pork like Ham, Pepperoni, Bacon, Panseta, Gyro, Souvlaki, Cold Cuts, Pork Chops, Loins, Ribs. Nor Gamey Meats (Rabbit etc) & technically aren’t even allowed to eat Shellfish! 👍🏻 Sorry, but every major culinary site says so. You are too limited 🤷🏻♂️
no, this has been done by turks for centuries, it was the greeks that copied them, in fact greeks cuisine is mostly influenced by Middle Eastern cuisine, thats why it all looks very similar to middle eastern food, real greek food is awful
Its the most popular "street" food because it USED to be very cheap. It used to cost around 1.2€ to 1.6€ each. Nowdays it costs around 3.5€ each!!!! Its absurd.
greece national dish is fasolada aka bean soup... also a greek favorite dish that every greek eats each day as breakfast is tyropita aka cheese pie ... also spanakopita aka spinach pie, kasseropita (yellow cheese and graviera pie (gruyere cheese ), galatopita aka milk pie, etc you seem to paralelize greeks with the turks which have nothing in common as greeks are a balkan nation from food to traditional clothing, and turks are an anatolian middle eastern nation with a cuisine close to persian (foods like kebab, donner kebab and with some caucasus influences such as peinirli in turkey aka georgian kachapuri, sujuk lukum in turkey, churkela in georgia etc... what s called gyros in greece and donner kebab in turkey is a persian dish kebab being a persian name that means barbeque in persian . Gyros came to greece only in the last 50 years from refugees from asia minor, we dont have flatbreads in greece like the naan type used for gyros it s a persian bread also found in caucasus called as lavash in armenia, or tonis puri in georgia) Our grandmothers did not know to make gyros but they made pies and knew how to make homemade pasta makaroni etc on their own That s the greek food not the gyros
Basically be it a Gyro, a Shawarma or a Döner, they use the same technique of preparing the meat by keeping it rotating near heat. The difference comes with the type of bread they use, for example gyros are made with thick Pita breads, whereas Döner or Shawarma usually with a thin flat bread. Gyros has meat, tomatoes, onions (sometimes fries) with a sauce( similar to sour cream). Shawarma has meat, onions, tomatoes and pickled vegetables with toum sauce( garlic flavored white sauce). While Döner has meat + all these vegetables, Tzatziki ( white sauce) and a spicy sauce ( usually Ezme) . Also the spice mix that goes into the meat might be different.
@@vassilisioannou5488 "Grilling a vertical spit of stacked meat and slicing it off as it cooks was developed in Bursa[12] in the 19th century in the Ottoman Empire. After the 1922-23 Population exchange between Greece and Turkey, the Greeks brought their variation with them to Greece. " - Wikipedia Ignorant much?
@@KP-xi4bj my friend People have been grilling meats way before Ottoman Empire, just because the meat is grilling on a rotisserie does not make it automatically Turkish, it's common sense which you clearly lack, and Gyros is pork meat if you did not know stupit yes!
Don't trust Athenians for naming things. They're confused and they'll just confuse you more! Gyros = gyros (not souvlaki) Souvlaki = skewer meat There, two distinct things for everyone to easily understand what you're talking about. As for kebabs, falafel, humus and things like that... They're middle eastern food and not consumed anywhere else in Greece than Athens.
Have you ever tried Gyros?
Yes , the vegan one
turkish kebabs are better
No but i wish i did try one 😋
@@astroboirapStop trolling. You replied the same words in almost all comments
Turkish kebabs are better if you need help to defecate
Tzatziki and French fries are a must. I spent a year in Greece as a foreign exchange student. The best time of my life.
I'm OK with the fries, but they're usually cold when added so don't taste particularly nice
Greek gyros
Turkish döner
arab shawarma
mexican burrito
All are so freaking delicious
🌯 berrito doesn't belong to this classification. Those are all slice meatd
Maybe taco al pastor
Greek Kebab
Kebab (original)
Arab Dürüm, since shawarma is actually a loan word from turkish 'çevirme'
Mexican taco (original)
@@sohret1193Turkish kebab (greek souvlaki)
İts all döner but burrito is different🤌
I had "gyros" first when I lived in nyc but whatever they're putting there is total trash and I thought it was average at best. But gyros in Greece is on another level. The way it should be done and one of the best street foods out there
You are correct. Do not trust 'Greek food' abroad. It is rarely good and even more rarely Greek. To be honest, even in Greece, to find good gyros/souvlaki/etc nowadays you need to do some research
problem in the usa is everything is an import and somewhere techniques are lost, ingredients differ, with the best will in the world foods in the states are always poor imitations of those in their country of origin. and what the usa has done to bread (the factory commercial products) is a crime against humanity.
@@DaredeviIGRI dunno man. Australia has a massive Greek expat population, and most of the Yiros I bought there tastes great!
Yeah try some Döner instad from truditinal turkish placeses you will love it trust me its better
@@ozgurkurtoglu6005 I have tried both and I like them both, as a Greek. You cannot try pork gyros if you are religious, thus you cannot suggest one is better than the other.
Both are great and go with different things. The process might seem the same but the experience is different.
Went i went to greece i found no bad food, everything was delicious, from a cart on the street to any restaurant
Greeks don't put up with mediocre food.
it's very difficoult to find bad food in mediterranean countries 😅
I couldn't stand those pastries made with cheese - I always avoided those, even though I actually do like the cheese when it is cold and not melted
As a Turkish person, tasted it in a Greece cafe in Serbia. 10/10 perfect.
Greek-Turkish beef lol no offense
I tasted döner in İstanbul, 10/10, perfect, Ican tell as a Greek.
@@KNIGHTTEMPLAR555 💙 We have loved Greece for more than 5,000 years.💙
Lol i see what you did there
Come get the real thing in athens mate you wont regret it.
It's so popular here in Germany that in my town almost 80% of restaurants are Greek.
Yeah, I was just thinking about that. I am Greek, new in Germany, last week found myself in rural NW. And even there, at a village, there was a Greek guy making gyros. There might be things I miss from home but grilled food isn't one of them. 😂
That's incredible. I live in Sydney and there's only a few yeeros shops. We mostly have American cuisine here.
@@jimmy2035 We also have American Food but mostly fast food chains. If you want to find good American Food you need to go to specific places or you just go to some German "Imbisse" where you can also get a burger for example in most cases or at least a "Frikadellenbrötchen". Some Germans might argue that this is also German food but I think the quality Burgers we know from today were developed like this by Americans.
That's one thing I am proud of in my country tho. You can literally find restaurants of all kind, not authentic all the time (especially Chinese/South East Asian Restaurants) but a lot of them are. Germany is just in the middle of every culture and also because of migration these cultures clash and create some amazing food. For example: you will find places that put kebab meat on a pizza which is crazy 😂
In my region there are more greek restaurants, but far more Turkish Kebab kiosks...🤓
Gyros styles vary from region to region, city to city. The size, sauces, condiments, and spicing can vary greatly. Up north in Thessaloniki they put ketchup and mustard! Heathens 😂
end of the day, turkish kebabs are way better
@@astroboirapStop trolling. You replied the same words in almost all comments
@@astroboirap Not better, just different and delicious in their own right too.
@@astroboirapat the end of the day turks are more terrorists yes.
@@astroboirapcan't say I agree. I like Turkish kebabs but tzatziki is better than cacik
I visited Greece a few years ago and I confirm that they have a very rich cuisine! 🖐🏼💙🇬🇷
They learned a lot from Turks. Thats the reason.
@@OG-ge8nu
Such as what? Committing genⲟⲥides and then denying it?
@@kristaps5296 which genocides? Denying and whitewashing own genocides is something the so called humane west is the number one champion worlwide. There is a whole system including politics, bureaucracy, media and ngo's which interact like machine in doing everything to denying it. Right now there is genocide comittet in front of us but nobody cares and acts like there is none. On the other hand every country which is not part of your west is always evil and commits genocides when there is none. Thats how you want to rule the world and thats why you are no trustworthy people.
@@OG-ge8nuhahahaha, Greece is one of the oldest counties on the planet buddy. Funny how you think Greece learned from the mongols while its the other way around
@@OG-ge8nu yes sure, the Greeks with a 1500 years old civilization (that period) were waiting for the horse rider Turks to teach them how to cook as they cooked in the steppes of Asia.
Greece is a great country with good people
Greek brothers! Best food!
Thank you for the nice video about the most popular street food in Greece 👍
Gyros is so big in Greece, i just stumbled upon this youtube video while eating gyros lol!
For the first timers, When you order a gyro, you say i want 1)a pita with 2)type of meat( pork or chicken gyro, or pork/chicken skewer or beef patty or sausage) and 3) toppings (tzatziki or mustard sause, tomatos, onions etc).
The standard version is:
For pork meat: tzatziki sause, tomatos, onions and fries (if it is a traditional place they may not add fries and you may need to say you want them as extra topping)
For chicken meat: mustard sause, tomato, lettuce and fries (same rule about fries)
So now you know you can either say for example I want a pita with pork gyro and with everything (standard version) or you customise it.
I love Greek food and everything about the country for that matter🩵
end of the day, turkish kebabs are way better
Stop trolling. You replied the same words in almost all comments
Spanakopita
@@astroboirap you wish
@@astroboirap Incorrect and only your opinion. Meanwhile in reality did you know that World Taste Atlas Put Pita Gyros nr 1 of best street food on earth? It completely wiped out Turkis Doner/ Kebab which is ranked way lower. OUCH. Also. We don't use low quality ingredients like in Turkey. Did you know that even this year based on the biggest study in Europe, the most adulterated honeys in Europe are Turkish and Chinese? Meaning. The lowest quality honey completely mixed with sugars and syrups, chemicals and bad things. Greece is not like Turkey. It's way better, way better quality of ingredients and recipes. Now sit back and eat that low ranked Turkish snack of yours
For anyone who wants to give them a try, the souvlaki shops that are shown in this video are:
Achilleas in Neos Kosmos (best gyros in Athens, awarded by the no1 gastronomy magazine in Greece)
And Lefteris o Politis in Omonoia and Syntagma Square (best "kebab" in Athens, also awarded)
I remember my vacation on greek islands at Lefkada , I was just 20 & enjoyed souvlaki & greek pastries so good with cheese 😊❤
I love Lefkada.... greetings from Australia
Hello from Lefkada
I couldn't stand the pastries, even though I like the cheese when it is cold and not melted like that
In northern Greece (thessaloniki/makedonia etc ) they serve different versions of gyros, in thick bread and with many other different types of sauce as well, p.ex. with cheese (tirokafteri), with various types of spice etc etc
I'm a native Texan, but the gyros I've had (with tzatziki) at Greek restaurants have been among my very favorite foods. I could be mistaken, but I thought the gyros I've had were made of lamb.
You will find not even one souvlaki grill shop with lamb in Greece.
So this concert must be American one.
@@kenmasters2034 Interesting! Thanks for the info! 🙂
With lamb its donèr and its turkish no tzatziki... greek is chicken or pork ... wraped 🌯🌯🌯🌯🌯 no fry potato ..only tzatziki ..
@@kenmasters2034 That's interesting. Most of the greek places I go to have lamb available for gyros. I guess it is an American one.
The ones made in the States are a Beef & Lamb Combination.
In Greece, the traditional ones are:
Pork
or
Chicken
But you can also find with Beef & Lamb as well, just not as popular as the first two.
Try the Pork & Chicken Ones in Greece, you will remember me! 👍🏻
As a persian i love greek food 😘
🇬🇷❤🇮🇷
I Love Greece ❤❤
love Greek food, made chicken gyros today, it's all about the marinade! Enjoyed the video thanks.
As an italian my opinion what make GYROS the best street food from different Mediterranea or Arab/Turkish street. Food. It's the delicious crispy pork....and the Greek oregano. what else!
Absolutely! Bravo Italia, you know good food! 👍🏻
When the italians Talk about food you better listen👍🫡
I am from Philippines🇵🇭, because i watched this. I want to go to Greece to eat Gyros
Gyro lover here 😋😋
you're not supposed to stick them up your rectum
Juicy seasoned meat with tzatziki and garlic, fresh pita and vegetables. That's just simple and perfect recepie for a gyro!
In Thessaloniki, when you said "Apo ola", there is meat gyro, onions, tomato, french fries, ketchup and mustard
And if you want tzatziki you pay extra😢😢😢
One of my favorite greek food 😋😋😋😋
Gyros is better than Döner in Berlin
Εννοειται!
And gyros copy of döner 😂
They're both good.
@@denizbeytekin9853 It means "certainly"
wo gibts geilen Gyros in Berlin? ich suche immer vergeblich nach gutem Gyros Pita
When I went to Greece in the nineties I had gyro's with fries and it was awesome. Beautiful fast food with fresh ingredients.
The beauty of Gyros is that you will not have the same in all of Greece - for example, let's say you get a Gyros with chicken. In some restaurants in Athens, they will give you tzatziki sauce and in some others, "pink" sauce (mustard and ketchup). In Thessaloniki, they can even put ketchup! In Corfu, its common to put their "special" red sauce.
Just been back from Iscambul. Time to visit Greece for some nice food.
That looks delicious not gonna lie
In Thessaloniki, pita-gyros is double size and with bigger variety of sauces. Tzatziki is not standard, my recommendation is to ask for paprika (pepper sauce, slightly spicy). Fries also come by default.
The whole "1st person" narrative is so awkward and weird.
Malaka! This is awesome
Damn, those things are good! I ate a boatload of them when I was there. Watching this video makes me want to go back just to have more.
Damn. You must be boat sized then.
Delicious right? The perfect food 😋
I'm sure it is very nice, but a local bar near my university used to serve the best damn pizzas in the whole Northern Europe. The guy who runs the place is origically Greek, funny enough (the best pizzas in Southern Europe are made by his brother, who lives in Greece). But then they changed their menu, and exchanged those pizzas for gyros. I was deeply disappointed. Those pizzas were so perfect: the perfect thin crust, just the right amounf of toppins and in perfect balance. God I miss those pizzas.
What was the place in Greece called?
Been to Greece many times.
Tzatziki feels wrong, but not gonna lie pita is a brilliant choice for it. We do it wrong in Turkiye with lavash.
Greece feels like home
What made gyros the most popular food, apart from the taste, was the low price as well. But now the prices almost doubled making it sometimes more expensive than a burger.
You will not find a burger that is cheaper than a gyro in Greece. Even a miserable hamburger without cheese will be at least 0.50€ more expensive than a pork gyro. Most burgers in Greece go for 6-7€, sometimes even double that if it's from a specialized burger joint.
@@TheJohn_Highway apparently I cannot post links. Anyway. I ordered gyros 4 days ago and I paid 3.80. There is burger joint that the base burger costs 3.60.
And 3.80 for gyros is astronomical compared to how much it cost 5 years ago. Not to mention even earlier.
@@KC80SiXYeah, Gyros almost doubled in Price. But still so worth it for anyone traveling from abroad
man. i'm drooling.
Souvlaki is the name of the place in Fairbanks, Alaska! more than thirty years, best cucumber sauce ever.
I want one now...
Nothing better than Greek gyros! 💙🇬🇷
Looks awesome! 👍
This is my favorite food ! luckily you can find it around the world !
With all due respect, Gyros belongs to the streets, just the streets.
Greece sure know how to makes a great Gyros Sandwich!😀😀
💙 We have loved Greece for more than 5,000 years.💙
You are a Hellene?
I like to tell about Lebanese shawarma which was popular in 1950’s so tasty as well as falafel. Price was 15 cents each.
No question just gib.
Better than Döner TBH, anything Chicken or pork is good.
Wow...nice food education...I've always though a meat like Lamb would of been most popular in that region of the world.
I like gyros better than turkish donner as the donner so greasy
Good man
im turkish and objectively yes
I Agree! 👍🏻
@@MIKRASIATISSA👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I love gyros but I prefer the Turkish doner
Αγάπη από Ελλάδα ❤❤
The part of the United States I'm from you can find shops all over who have Gyros some better then others, my favorite way is lamb with just grilled onion .
The stuff they have in the states is different. It’s shaved ground meat. Where this( in Greece) it’s actually meat.
Stuff in the states is nothing like the native one, when greeks look at the gyros in the states they feel uncanny because the meat there is usually processed and like grounded (greeks call it plastic as a joke), here in greece is always fresh pork meat or chicken if you are dieting!
@@icantmeme4378 Which is strange, because all other spit meats in the US, like doner, shawarma, and al pastor are just cut meat on skewers. I wonder why it became this ground thing (usually beef or lamb) in the US (I don't love it, either, that's why I usually give gyros a miss here in the US.
I'm here as a Greek to approve this message. No matter where i travel in the whole world, from Brazil to Thailand, my first meal will be local cuisine, second meal of the day "let's find some gyros".
ate twice outside of greece and i threw it away. i wouldnt even give it to my dogs. these people are just disgracing our food lol
Where did you get gyros in Thailand?
I remeber in the 90's Jack in the Box put it on their menu and had a whole ad campaign on how to pronounce gyros. It def wasn't the right way....
I live in America and visited several European and Middle Eastern countries. I tried gyros, doner, and shawarma in several places including their original countries. I would rank them as the following:
1. Shawarma
2. Gyros
3. Doner
I prefer Greek Gyros instead of the Turkish Kebab counterpart. The soft bread, the white garlic sous. The fresh salate. mmmmmmmmm!
Turkish version better, you need to find the right place :)
Or maybe you are greek 😅
@@eren3390 it's personal preference, same as preferring bulgarian yogurt instead of greek.
By the way, Kebap and Döner ( which some people call gyros or shwarma ) are completely different foods.
@@faceofdeadwell, yoghurt is Turkish. Dont know how a Turkish product can become bulgar or greek
It's a quick meal, And we find it at all hours..
Thank you DW ! Efxaristo, Danke se
Best time is anytime 😂. Well saiddd
Can somebody explain to me what’s the difference and where to draw the line between gyros and shawarma
I’m in country where Greek cuisine is way too hard to find out
And usually it is super expensive
Both are knockoff’s of Doner from Turkey
They’re both an imitation
Shawarma : Middle Eastern (Levantine to be exact) version of the dish. Made with lamb, beef or chicken meat in flattened pieces form (in general. If you want pork it becomes Al Pastor thanks to Lebanese immigrants brought and updated the recipe in Mexico).
Döner: Turkish version (The OG version all of these some people say) It started as horizontal stacked version called "Cağ Kebap" (made with only lamb) and 2 centruies and hundreds of kilometers west on Anatolia later, it became vertical and beef started to use in minced form. In modern days it can be made with chicken / lamb / beef / even spicy sausage meat called sucuk in Turkey. During the 70s this dish brought into Europe (Germany/Austria) by Turkish workers / immigrants and it evolved into a new version which contains lots of veggies & sauces.
Gyros: Whatever you see in this video is way more enough to explain gyros in my opinion so i don't have anything to add other than Greek immigrants that moved to USA created a version made with fully minced meat and drown that meat with tatziki sauce and they're calling that Gyros too (with wrong pronounciation by English speakers of course :)
Gyros isn't minced meat but sliced pork fillets, one on top of it's other that creates this mass of meat you can see on the video...
@@phdimakopoulos543 If you read my message better, you would understand that i was mentioning the Americanized version of "gyros" in USA brought by Greek immigrants made it like that not the Greeks in Greece ;)
The most important difference is the meat. Middle Easterners are using lamb or beef and Greeks use mainly pork but you can also find chicken.
My mouth watered.
I think in the United States, the meat is usually beef and lamb?
The ideal gyros is pita, meat, tomato, onion, and sauce. Nothing more, nothing less. 😊
And parsley usually...
Some places put lettuce on them. It just doesn’t work for me.
definitely not lamb LOL
Pork! No lettuce, no parsley.
@@SmellsLikeNirvanna Pita is also in lamb. In many meat ways. Soutzouki, Lamb, Souvlaki, Gyros, bifteki, and many other ways.
Came here because the place in my neighborhood adds pickles and lettuce. They always look so confused when I tell them taziki and tomato only. But I just learned that they are Moroccan so now this makes sense 😂
@erdemozcan5435 buzuki is a middle eastern instrument not a turkish one. Buzuki has 3 strigs while the greek buzuki has 6. An instrument similar to modern buzuki is represented in the temple of parthenon in the acropolis. The ancient greeks called it pandourida. It s a predecessor of the lute, of the buzuki, of the lyra etc all those instruments existed in ancient greece. But our national instrument in which our folk songs are written is the flute. You can google greek folk songs like karagouna, itia, amarantos, milo mou kokino etc and you ll see none of our folk songs has bouzouki in it. Bouzouki is mainly played in rebetiko songs songs written after 1930. Our folk songs from the middle ages till now have only flute and guitar. But your mania to say everything greek is turkish stems from your nationalism for which you should find therapy instead of spaming greek videos and me and wasting my time trying to correct the unhistorical lies you write.
completely wrong. Baglama and its derivative instruments are derived from kopuz. Believe me, I am not malicious. As a Turk, I love the Greeks very much and I think we are brothers. But we should not bend the truth about origins. The bouzouki belongs entirely to the Greeks, but the instrument it evolved from is the kopuz, my friend.
@@uzaydaisemekisteyenadam4543 greek bouzouki has more than 3 strings that the organs you describe have 3 strings. Greek bouzouki is a completely other organ it s similar to italian and irish mandoline! For god s sake we are a balkan nation our country lies in europe yours in asia we were always here you came from elsewhere in asia your language is not even european our language is european we lived more than 1000 years with the italians as romans why you think we are the same as you and that we did not have anything before you and now all the stuff we have is yours?
A disclaimer should be included in the video clip for those who are on a diet or watching after 21h ;-)
😂sorry
Love Gyros. Surprised that they put the fries inside; here the fries come on the side.
To cut cost on the meat, it's a filler
Many greeks eat gyros while they take a walk (!!) in the town' s main road ("wifes bazaar") at night ... So fries must be inside 😊😊
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It's not a filler, the amount of meat is the same whether you want fries or not
@@___beyondhorizon4664Nope. Gyro meat will be exactly the the same regardless of fries or not
Yes, thank you for proper pronunciation.
There's no debate about chips inside gyros. In whole Greece we eat it with chips. Some people want to increase their profit. Apart from that, the place looks ideal for... tourists. Very small sandwiches; a Greek would complain.
I don't add fry potato ... only tzatziki onions...😅
7:05 she's talking about cookomela grill in exarcheia and it's DELICIOUS!
Souvlaki is only one thing. The thing Athenians, and only Athenians, call kalamaki. What Atheneans call souvlaki, all over Greece except Athens is called "pitta with souvlaki or gyros or ....."
Οι Αθηναίοι μια χαρά το λένε...
Όταν οι αρχαίοι Έλληνες πήγαιναν εκστρατείες ένα από τα φαγητά τους ήταν το σουβλάκι καλαμάκι...πήγαιναν στους γύρω βάλτους...κοβανε καλάμια...τα σπαγανε σε καλαμάκια...πέρναγαν κομματάκια κρέατος και τα ψηνανε στις φωτιές.
Αυτό που σου γράφω το είδα σε ένα ελληνικό ντοκιμαντέρ με τις τροφικες συνήθειες των Ελλήνων.
Κάτι παραπάνω θα ξέρανε από τους Θεσσαλονίκης...
I see that you take gyros from Achilleas in Neos Kosmos area. Top 5 in Athens for sure!!! And Kosta is for sure the best souvlaki in athens with tomato salsa!!
It is the best junk food in the world
the best part is that its not even junk, it can be healthy if bought from a good restaurant
Just to make it more confusing, when you find a Gyros place in east Europe its 50/50 whether its truly, or a döner shop
Its all the 'grease' that goes into it that makes it so special.
Envy is a sin
@@fredkanis6857 Envy of what? Lol
The greasy ones are found in 🦃iye with their bad meat products.
In Greece they are Pork 👌🏻
Great video, except it has some mistakes in explaining Greek gyro. The names Souvlaki for all types of gyros and the name Kalamaki are typical of Athens, not the whole of Greece, so this is misleading for people watching this video. In the north of Greece, gyro pita is the cut meat you get in pita bread, and souvlaki are meat skewers, this is something you had to mention the difference between north and south of Greece and the slight difference in names of this amazing food.
🇹🇷 or 🇬🇷 how long before we see a war in the comments section
Greek maybe good but Turkish cuisine remain unmatched
@@Jamirio there's no maybe, greek cuisine is bomb, you just never tried it and you're biased. i'm telling you this as a greek-turk mix, both are just top notch.
@@JamirioTasteAtlas:
🇬🇷#2
🦃#18
🦃 has no Seafood Culture, no Pasta Culture, no Coffee Culture. No Pork like Ham, Pepperoni, Bacon, Panseta, Gyro, Souvlaki, Cold Cuts, Pork Chops, Loins, Ribs. Nor Gamey Meats (Rabbit etc) & technically aren’t even allowed to eat Shellfish! 👍🏻
Sorry, but every major culinary site says so. You are too limited 🤷🏻♂️
I'm not vegan but that mushroom souvlaki sounds so good
So this is whom the turks copied from
For sure the other way round. Also greeks know this.
Copied from Greeks ?
no, this has been done by turks for centuries, it was the greeks that copied them, in fact greeks cuisine is mostly influenced by Middle Eastern cuisine, thats why it all looks very similar to middle eastern food, real greek food is awful
@@carlosm.3426 real greek food has existed for centuries, long before turkey was made
@@OG-ge8nuHe literally shows you artifacts & sources that predate your people by 3,000+ Years! 🤣 🛖🦃🛖
Its the most popular "street" food because it USED to be very cheap.
It used to cost around 1.2€ to 1.6€ each. Nowdays it costs around 3.5€ each!!!!
Its absurd.
Turkish copied this food and pretended like they invented something new (Döner)
Can you link to the restaurant?
Achilleas, Spintharou 18, Athina 117 43, Greece
I didn't know Gyros was alive and making videos. This changes everything.
Καλαμακι ειναι αυτο που ρουφαμε τον φραπεεεεεεεεε
greece national dish is fasolada aka bean soup... also a greek favorite dish that every greek eats each day as breakfast is tyropita aka cheese pie ... also spanakopita aka spinach pie, kasseropita (yellow cheese and graviera pie (gruyere cheese ), galatopita aka milk pie, etc you seem to paralelize greeks with the turks which have nothing in common as greeks are a balkan nation from food to traditional clothing, and turks are an anatolian middle eastern nation with a cuisine close to persian (foods like kebab, donner kebab and with some caucasus influences such as peinirli in turkey aka georgian kachapuri, sujuk lukum in turkey, churkela in georgia etc... what s called gyros in greece and donner kebab in turkey is a persian dish kebab being a persian name that means barbeque in persian . Gyros came to greece only in the last 50 years from refugees from asia minor, we dont have flatbreads in greece like the naan type used for gyros it s a persian bread also found in caucasus called as lavash in armenia, or tonis puri in georgia) Our grandmothers did not know to make gyros but they made pies and knew how to make homemade pasta makaroni etc on their own That s the greek food not the gyros
😂😂😂😂😂
Looks similar to the famous Syrian Shawrma, thicker bread, though!
I'm Egypt also
Is shwrma made with Pork?
Then why did you accidentally put it in the title
noooooo, never say kalamaki !!!!
You can in Athens, if you only stay there 😁
@@yiorgosst6898 noooo, kalamades nation strikes back !!! nooooo 🤣
@@Razamaniac 🤣
Σουβλάκες !!!! Χαχαχα αθηνα μονο καλαμακι 👌👌👌👌👌👌
Wow amazing
hows this different from shawarma?
Basically be it a Gyro, a Shawarma or a Döner, they use the same technique of preparing the meat by keeping it rotating near heat. The difference comes with the type of bread they use, for example gyros are made with thick Pita breads, whereas Döner or Shawarma usually with a thin flat bread. Gyros has meat, tomatoes, onions (sometimes fries) with a sauce( similar to sour cream). Shawarma has meat, onions, tomatoes and pickled vegetables with toum sauce( garlic flavored white sauce). While Döner has meat + all these vegetables, Tzatziki ( white sauce) and a spicy sauce ( usually Ezme) . Also the spice mix that goes into the meat might be different.
@@soorajeday9429 thanks for this reply my G
Pork
@@soorajeday9429 you forgot to mention that gyro's meat is of pork and maybe chicken,no lamb etc.
i love souvlaki
it's way better than those boring donor kebabs in Germany
No. Gyros = knockoff of OG Turkish doner kebabs.
@@KP-xi4bj original Gyros souvlaki goes back to Ancient Greece poor Turkish thief
Turks on their way to steal anything greek
As they have done since forever
@@vassilisioannou5488 "Grilling a vertical spit of stacked meat and slicing it off as it cooks was developed in Bursa[12] in the 19th century in the Ottoman Empire. After the 1922-23 Population exchange between Greece and Turkey, the Greeks brought their variation with them to Greece. " - Wikipedia
Ignorant much?
@@KP-xi4bj my friend People have been grilling meats way before Ottoman Empire, just because the meat is grilling on a rotisserie does not make it automatically Turkish, it's common sense which you clearly lack, and Gyros is pork meat if you did not know stupit yes!
عاشت الايادي رووعة جدا
gyros are 10 x times more tastier than kebab
in your dreams :D
@@boranayir4004 idk about you for me it is but hey everyone has its own opinions
kebab waaaaaay better
@@eren3390😂😂😂not...all people préfér pork
@@dimitrakapa4887 pork is disgusting 🤢
I really would like to try gyros with pork.
Don't trust Athenians for naming things. They're confused and they'll just confuse you more!
Gyros = gyros (not souvlaki)
Souvlaki = skewer meat
There, two distinct things for everyone to easily understand what you're talking about.
As for kebabs, falafel, humus and things like that... They're middle eastern food and not consumed anywhere else in Greece than Athens.
0:27 it's not pronounced with an /ou/ in the second syllable, but with an /o/
gyro >>>> doner
Nope
LOL. You ever taste both of them?
Oohhh so you eat Pork? That is the main type of gyros made.
Not even the same.
@@georgekoul didn't said it's the same. I said they are not made from pork but from beef (bovine). True or false? Muslims don't eat pork. Fact.