Souvlaki Pita appears as a signature dish in 1 Greece cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Souvlaki pita · Athens
Grilled pork or chicken on a wooden skewer with the meat sliced off into a warm pita with tomato, onion and tzatziki, the everyday lunch and late dinner across Athens.
Skewered meat over coals predates the modern souvlaki by centuries, but the Athens souvlaki-pita built around tzatziki and a charcoal grill emerged in the post-war 1950s. The Bairaktaris family on Monastiraki traces its souvlaki business to the late 19th century. Kostas on Agia Irini Square has fried the pita with its own tomato sauce since 1946. The dish is now the daily food of Athens, costing EUR3 to EUR4 at counter, eaten standing in the square.
Where to eat in Athens:
- Kostas Souvlaki
- Bairaktaris