The Daisy Field

When you think Greek, you think of warm family meals, LOTS of garlic, olive oil, flavours of dill and lemon etc.   You often think tender grilled meat and the first dish that likely comes to mind right now is lamb souvlaki.   This iconic dish wasn’t even on the menu at our recent lunch at The Greek in Gastown. The Greek Gastown is the newest location for this family run trio of restaurants which started with the much loved Anatoli Souvlaki on the north shore.   It’s a cute little restaurant just up from the Gassy Jack statue and we had made a reservation for 12:15 for a party of 10 to celebrate a birthday lunch.   We called to advise we were running a few minutes late, part of the party arrived at 12:15 and the rest were there by 12:22.   I happened to be in the slower group and when we arrived they were still setting up our table on the balcony, then they changed their mind and set up a table for 9 on the bottom floor.   ...