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Tip #1: When you go to a proper Greek restaurant, don't order the souvlaki dinner with rice, potatoes and salad. Just don't do it. It's like going to Chinatown and ordering chicken chow mein.
My recommendation: the first time you go, order some dips (taramosalata, hummus, melizanosalata ), a hot appetizer platter for two, and if you want your vitamins, a Horiatiki (country) salad - tomatoes, olives, onions and feta - the kind of Greek salad you get in Greece. Hot appetizers include octopus (the best I've had in Toronto), calamari, loukaniko sausage, spanakopita, etc. On our latest visit, we also ordered the chicken livers, which come on a sizzling plate with onions and mushrooms - delicious! (Yes, there were more than two of us.)
Sometimes you get free dessert - ravani, AKA honey cake. Yum! Almost as good as my better half's.
And if you're really lucky, one of the waiters will sing for you. Trust me. This you gotta hear.
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