Tonight Craig and I had dinner at the Greek Cafe in Middletown, NY. We've been looking for a good Greek place, hell, ANY Greek place since he moved up here from Long Island. Driving home one evening a few weeks back, we saw a sign for the Greek Cafe. Craig got out his phone and found their number and called to ask if they had skordalia on the menu. When they said "of course!" it was a definite. I checked out the menu online and it looked fantastic. We tried to go last weekend, but they aren't open on Sundays, which is our only day off together. Tonight with the holiday we got a chance.
Craig ordered his beloved skordalia for his appetizer. It's a cold dip made with mashed potato, olive oil, garlic, and lemon juice, served with warm pita bread. It was just great, an overly generous portion. I had the halloumi cheese, which is a Cypriot sheep's milk brined cheese, sliced and fried in olive oil until browned. I had it when I was on an archaeological dig on Cyprus when I was in college, and I loved it so much I tried for 20 years to find the cheese in this country with no luck. Finally about 5 or 6 years ago, they started importing it.
We both ordered the avgolemono soup as a second appetizer - a chicken-lemon-egg soup with rice. Wonderful!
For our entrees, we both chose the pastichio, which is a pasta-meat-cheese concoction, which is the lower picture above. It came with an excellent salad, lightly dressed and perfectly fresh. The portion of the pastichio was so huge that we barely finished a third of it and brought the rest home. We also wanted to save room for dessert - baklava for Craig and galactoboureko for me and Greek coffee for both. Again, the portions were huge (see the top picture) and both were excellent.
Total tab for the meal (half of which came home with us as leftovers) was $57. I believe the place doesn't have a liquor license, but a table near ours brought their own homemade wine with them and sent us over a couple of glasses! The waiter (owner's son) was very nice, service was great, the place is very pretty.
Highly, highly recommended!
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