LA Greek Fest 2008

I went to the LA Greek Fest, at the Saint Sophia Cathedral in the Byzantine Latino quarter in Los Angeles, for lunch. It was a very festive atmosphere lots of Greek food, wine, music and dancing.


What caught my attention was a line of 10! vertical gyro grills. It's a gotta have one moment.


The gyro with the Tsatsiki sauce was delicous.


I had a Greek beer called Hillas a pilsiner type of beer. This was the highlight of the whole event for me. The aggressive hops seem to hit your whole palate at first gulp, very good beer, ranks up there along Checvar and Pilsner Urquell.


For dessert, there were a lot of Baklava's and Filo dough sweets, I chose to have some Greek doughnuts called Loukomathes almost like beignets but very crispy on the outside, soaked in honey and drizzled with cinnamon and hazelnuts. Very good and very light.


A lot of the food items they have at the festival you can actually buy across the street at Papa Cristo's and much cheaper. I went there to get a few more of that wonderful Hillas beer.