Greek Food Festival

Tonight we visited the 24th Annual Greek Food Festival held at the Hellenic Center at 4500 Arbutus Street.

It's being held yesterday, today and tomorrow at the Hellenic Community Center at 4500 Arbutus Street. Today and tomorrow the hours are noon to 11p.m.

In addition to featuring inexpensive Greek food and desserts, there are also Greek cookbooks, T-Shirts and other products from Greece on sale as well as music, dancing by Greek dance troups, and activities for young and old.

It's an ideal place to take the family. The entire premises are licensed which means that, for once, you can have beer and wine and walk around inside with your kids. There is a cafe as well as a sit down restaurant serving hearty Greek suppers for just $12.

Barb and I had a big lunch, so we opted to eat at the cafe. I had souvlaki, bread and Greek salad for $7.00 and Barb had the spanakopita (fresh out of the oven, mmmm), dolmades and a huge Greek salad for $7.00. We also sampled some excellent Greek desserts. Definitely worth checking out!