The Greek Community Hall offers great, authentic Greek food for small-to-medium-sized groups, with sizeable portions for everyone, and even dessert! Most of us already know that the Greeks are up there in the great nations of food, bringing us foods like spanakopita and baklava. So who’s up for some Greek?
Now, admittedly, dining at a community hall is a bit outside of my usual assignment, but I had a unique opportunity to attend the Greek Community Centre for a conference with the promise of dinner, and it seemed hard to pass up as a starving college student.
Besides, after hearing about all of the amazing food of Greek Fest, how could you pass up a chance to go dine with the gods themselves?
The Greek Community Centre is a very classic looking building and is pretty unique in the area in terms of architecture. The conference itself was a bit of a humdrum financial affair, but I doubt any of you care to hear about that.
Here’s a lesson in mooching food: go to a conference, learn something, and eat for free. That’s solid life advice for a student. As I write this, we’re all in the thick of midterms, so it’s more important than ever to find those free and easy meals where you can; a conference usually offers a decent spread. (Of course, it’s best if you actually have some degree of interest in the topic of the evening.)
But moving on: the food! The Greek Community Centre put out quite the spread for us, from warm pita bread to spanakopita, arni psito, and much more, with a constant influx of more. The food was just plain good, and well worth the rest of the conference. The spanakopita, which is basically spinach pie and phyllo pastry, was my fave.
Now, I don’t expect the student body to start booking rooms at the community centre, but the next time Greek Fest comes around, you may want to think about going! Greek food offers a range of Mediterranean-inspired dishes, hardy enough to fuel any student through the toughest of midterm weeks.