Kali Orexi is the Greek phrase for Bon Apetit! Literally, it translates to good appetite, and bringing a good appetite to the Greek Festival New Orleans is its own reward. Choose from a wide selection of authentic Greek cuisine, handmade in our kitchen, guaranteed to satisfy your Orexi! After two years without a Greek Festival, this year we are back to tradition!
New Items This Year
Greek Wine Flights: A combination of 2 red and 2 white
Mythos Greek Beer: A Greek pale lager.
Back by Popular Demand!
Traditional Greek Dinner Lamb Plate: Spring Rotisserie Lamb with Tomato Orzo au Jus and Roll Traditional Greek Dinner Gyro on Pita with Tzatziki Souvlaki: Greek shishkabob Feta Fries
Entrées, Salads, and Savories
Gyro
Delicious gyro meat with tzatziki sauce, grilled onions, served on warm pita bread.
Greek Dinner
Pastitsio, tiropita, kieftethes with gravy (Greek meatballs), Greek green beans, and a roll.
Vegetarian Plate: spanakopita, tiropita, Greek green beans, rice filled dolmathes
Souvlaki
Grilled pork or chicken served with pita, tzatziki sauce and onions
Spring Lamb Platter with Orzo
Greek style, slow roasted rotisserie lamb, succulent, seasoned with Greek spices, and served with Tomato Orzo au Jus and Roll — delicious!
Greek Salad
Fresh greens, tomatoes, onions, topped with feta cheese and Kalamata olives, served with our homemade Greek dressing (vegetarian). Available inside the Community Center.
Greek Fries
Fried potatoes prepared with a special blend of Greek spices (Sold in the Athenian Playground Area).
Desserts and Drinks
Baklava Sundae
Delicious baklava crowned with soft-serve vanilla ice cream topped with baklava spices of cinnamon and nuts, and a cherry.
Mastiha Bar
Look for the Mastiha Bar where we’ll serve the liquor over ice, straight up, or as a refreshing specialty Mastiha cocktail! Mastiha from Chios: a unique liquor flavored with resin from mastic trees which only grow on the island of Chios, Greece. Served cold, it has a crystal clear color and a sweet aroma; try it as a digestif!
The Pastry Shoppe
A wide variety of traditional homemade Greek pastries, including baklava, kourambiethes, stuffed finikia, cakes and cookies.
Urban South’s Paradise Park Beer
On tap, served ice cold
Mythos Greek Lager in the bottle: Made from select barley and hops, with a rich blonde color, refreshing taste with a clean finish!
Wines
In addition to our traditional Greek red, white and rose’ wines (by the bottle and glass), sample our new wines.
Discover our new wine with our Wine Flights! A tasting of four outstanding Greek wines, two red and two white. Buketo White – A blend of Malagousia and Assyrtiko, two Greek indigenous varietals and Sauvignon Blanc
Tselepos Mantinia Moschofilero – from Arcadia in the Peloponnese, Moschofilero has exceptional freshness with a crisp, clean finish.
Ktima Driopi Rose’ – 100% Agiorgitiko a Greek indigenous varietal from the famous PDO Nemea region. A dry rose’ with a delicate color, rich, fruity, with a crispy taste.
Katsaros Valos Xinomavro – From a small family winery in Northern Greece. A ruby red with flavors of fresh raspberries, strawberries, red cherries, fresh tomato and rose pedals.
Soft Drinks & Bottled Water
Pomegranate Ice Tea
Homemade from fresh pomegranates
Daiquiris
Pomegranate, Ouzo daiquiris, Mango plus Ouzo jello shots
Ouzo
Traditional Greek anise-flavored aperitif; sold by the bottle or shot at the Taverna
