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| - As I previously mentioned, the greek word for comfort heaven food is "spanikopita" (with spinach) or "tiropita" (with cheese). Layers of thin pastry, layers of butter filled with any number of things (but quite often cheese or spinach).
In Albanian, we call it "byrek", and it is made properly, from scratch, by one single person in my family. Holidays and get-togethers often centre around the acquisition of this pastry gold before your cousins take seconds (I am usually the cousin in this scenario).
Anyway, my sister and I wandered into this place, and it was like entering Willy Wonka's byrek factory. Large ovens and pans with large slabs of the stuff being removed, flipped, cut, repeat. The sheer volume stopped us in our tracks. It was just so...plentiful. It seems these guys specialize in our drug of choice (along with a few other Greek specialities, like "loukoumades", the small fried dough balls in syrup), and they make it deliciously and from scratch (meaning they roll out their own phyllo dough to the approximate thinness of paper, as opposed to buying it in boxes), and did I mention in gigantic batches? If you are a fan, you shall not be disappointed, if not, then you've probably never had it before, and this would be a good place to start.
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