The dips are where The Favourite Greek shows its hand. Hot Peppers & Feta comes out as roasted peppers whipped into creamy feta, sharp enough to reset the palate between bites, and the tzatziki is a family recipe — Greek yogurt cut with cucumber and garlic — that lands beside almost everything the kitchen sends out. This is a Greek restaurant on George Street North in downtown Peterborough, run by the Vassiliadis family, and the house dips are the clearest tell that the food is built on recipes carried in a family rather than pulled off a supplier's shelf. Order two of them with warm pita and the meal has already found its centre.
The plates run on souvlaki. Chicken is the clearest first order — grilled marinated skewers with Greek salad, tzatziki, and a choice of rice, potatoes, or fries — and the same complete-plate format carries pork, beef, and lamb. Greek Fries are the side regulars reach for, the one upgrade that makes a casual order taste specifically like this kitchen rather than a generic counter. The heavier end of the menu holds three marinated lamb chops grilled to order, lightly battered calamari with lemon, and tigania, a stir-fry of onions, peppers, mushroom, and soutzoukaki served as a dinner for two. Saganaki still does its trick tableside, kefalograviera flambéed with brandy and carried out with pita. Spanakopita, dolmades, and a village salad heavy with feta fill out the Greek side of the card, and baklava closes the night.
The strongest non-menu reason to care is the family line: George Vassiliadis is connected in local coverage to Bob Vassiliadis, Chios and a longer Peterborough Greek-restaurant story.
The current menu gives the restaurant real anchors: chicken souvlaki dinner, Greek fries, hot peppers with feta, tzatziki, saganaki, spanakopita, lamb chops and baklava.
The value read comes from complete plates, family meals and shareable sides, not from invented specials. It is a mid-range Greek restaurant with portion logic that makes sense.
The Favourite Greek has more cultural depth than a generic Greek counter because the food is tied to a Vassiliadis family line: Chios, Bob Vassiliadis, Shish-Kabob Hut, and George Vassiliadis carrying the restaurant story forward through souvlaki, dips and saganaki.
Chicken Souvlaki Dinner is the clean first order, but the signature read is a cluster: souvlaki, Greek Fries, Hot Peppers & Feta, Tzatziki and Saganaki. Together they show why the kitchen reads as a specific Greek restaurant, not just a pita-and-plate stop.
The value here is not a coupon story. It is plate architecture: souvlaki dinners, pita wraps, Greek Fries, family-format dinners and shareable dips that make a mid-range order feel complete without needing a complicated strategy.
The menu is easy to build for a group: family dinners, Appetizer Platter, dips, Greek Fries, Vegetarian Platter and catering language all point toward ordering in multiples rather than treating the restaurant as a one-plate stop.
Pita wraps, souvlaki dinners, family meals, sides and dips make the restaurant naturally takeout-friendly. The food that defines the kitchen can travel without turning into a different restaurant on the way home.
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