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Seize the Day! Put no trust in the morrow! — Horace
Visiting San Francisco there are many fine dining establishments … But my favorite is Kokarri… Fine Greek cuisine! Authenticity is their trademark, including flying a special fish from Greece to accent the meal!
If you get the chance by making an early reservation… This is the place to visit for lunch or dinner!
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Our daughter Kristin with a Kokkari cookbook making a visit to San Francisco complete!
We love Greek food and although much of our food has Greek influences , we still enjoy Greek night whether or not we are visiting Kokkari… But Kokarri is special.
No great meal is complete without Baklava Ice cream!
I spent a few years in my youth living in Palo Alto. Those were good times and Palo Alto was a simple and affordable university community. Oh how times have changed. I am sure it wasn’t their intention — but maybe it was — to design their streets for ‘locals only’, but that is how it has turned out. I had two tasks: 1) to buy my favorite Spartan Olive Oil and 2) find the sister restaurant to my favorite San Francisco restaurant Kokkari named in Palo Alto Evvia. This wasn’t an easy task.
One of the neighborhood defensive measures in Palo Alto is to close off streets and to turn two way streets into one way. If this isn’t enough, there is very little lighting at night to find your way around. Well, my bride commented to me,” I thought you grew up here?” Yes, but that is before silicone valley money poured in. With a little luck, we found our way.
Evvia is a nice very popular Greek Restaurant in a nice setting with a selection of traditional and modern Greek food. I even own a cookbook of theirs and made most of what is in it! We were able to get reservations on a Saturday night… but not until 9:15 pm. I enjoyed the reddened lamb shank, various Greek Wines and Baklava Ice cream. Laura enjoyed an assortment of traditional Greek foods in a sampler, Greek wine and cookies for dessert. Oh yes, the service was superb.
Definitely a fun place to stop.
Here is a fun and easy recipe that will pleased almost everyone in your life! We served it with a meal of steaks and ribs and it was a well received side dish!
I looked everywhere to find a good lamb CHARCOAL ROTISSERIE of around 52″. It had to have a strong enough spit to handle most of the lambs and pigs I would like to roast… and the motor would have to be positioned far enough away from the pit so that I wouldn’t have to replace it every few occasions. A nice grease tray would be nice as would a wind break and something to hold the middle of the lamb firmly on the spit….
The cuisine of Greece is wonderfully simple and delicious! I have a few items on my recipe list. CLICK here to find them!
Here is ‘Gus” cooking and ‘tasting’ for quality assurance the lamb he is preparing on his front yard! I screen captured this from the delightfully entertaining movie “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”. The movie is 9 years old now, but always brings a smile… which is why I named my new Lamb Rotisserie “GUS”.
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