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Slow-cooked lamb shoulder with labne and salad.

Athos

This cafe is a finalist for best food in Good Food’s Essential Melbourne Cafes and Bakeries of 2025.

Olympic Meats proves takeaway food can offer the same level of care as a fine-diner.
14.5/20

The stakes are high in Sydney’s gyros heartland. Does Olympic deserve the hype?

Large families, pilgrims from far-flung suburbs and locals flock to Olympic Meats for briney octopus, crunchy spanakopita and barbecued chicken, pork and lamb.

  • David Matthews
Saganaki at Eleni’s.

Eleni’s Kitchen & Bar

Longstanding Greek restaurant for time-honoured favourites.

  • Daniela Frangos
The family-made food of Philhellene in Moonee Ponds.

Philhellene

Family-run institution for Cretan-influenced feasts.

Caffe Greco gives equal billing to Greek and Italian dishes on its menu.

Caffe Greco

A revived Melbourne dining icon from the ’90s.

  • Emma Breheny
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Bougatsa and coffee.

Clarence and V

An all-day eatery that’s all about minimum fuss and maximum flavour.

Enjoy a Greek feast at Taverna.
14.5/20

‘Olive oily, lemony, salty deliciousness’: This corner is a rollicking Greek party once more

Taverna was created in a hurry, but it’s instantly timeless, writes Dani Valent. And there’s a lot of Hellenic history here.

  • Dani Valent
Taramasolata, bread and octopus.

Astoria Bar Ke Grill

Home-style Hellenic cuisine in a 129-year-old terrace.

  • Daniela Frangos
Ntinos Fotinakis is bringing his dishes from Greece to his curated pop-up at Manta.

Sydney’s love for Greek restaurants hits fever pitch with a wave of openings (and a hot new pop-up)

From a souvlaki bar on a rooftop to village-style cooking at Olympic Meats, the harbour city is embracing all things Greek.

  • Scott Bolles
The chicken pitogyro.

A Greek ‘grill house’ where the gyros actually taste like they do in Greece

The sourdough pita is baked to-order in a wood-fire oven and the meat is prepared over three days, before it’s cooked on a rotisserie.

  • Erina Starkey

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