Greek Day and Greek Summer Festival 2010

by KimHo on July 4, 2010 · 2 comments under: British Columbia,Events,Food,Photo Essay


Greek Day
3230 West Broadway Street
Vancouver, BC

Greek Summer Festival
4641 Boundary Road
Vancouver, BC

Last year, around this time, I went to several festival (for eample, the Scandinavian Mid Summer Fest, Latin Summer Fest, Powell Street Festival and so on). One that I couldn’t make it was the Greek Day, as it conflicted with another personal matters (as mentioned in my Scandinavian Mid Summer Fest post above). Despite I went to Greek Summer Festival, in-lieu of the Greek Day, well, it isn’t necessarily the same. So, this year, I made sure I went to that festivity, despite the weather was un-summer like. But, hey, weather hasn’t stopped me before! So, without further ado, a small photo essay of this event.

Greek Day, Vancouver, Greek, West, Broadway, 2010

Greek Day, Vancouver, Greek, West, Broadway, 2010
The event took place in Vancouver West Side in West Broadway between McDonald and Bleinheim Street

Greek Day, Vancouver, Greek, West, Broadway, 2010, Traditional Sweets
Greek goodies…

Greek Day, Vancouver, Greek, West, Broadway, 2010, olives
More goodies…

Greek Day, Vancouver, Greek, West, Broadway, 2010, olive oil, olive
Did I say goodies?

Greek Day, Vancouver, Greek, West, Broadway, 2010, stage
You got to have a stage, right?

Greek Day, Vancouver, Greek, West, Broadway, 2010, costums
I guess there ought to be some people in costumes…

Greek Day, Vancouver, Greek, West, Broadway, 2010, souvlaki
Did I say food??? :) However, most of the same stands were selling the same dishes… :(

Greek Day, Vancouver, Greek, West, Broadway, 2010, gyro

Greek Day, Vancouver, Greek, West, Broadway, 2010, gyro, spit

Greek Day, Vancouver, Greek, West, Broadway, 2010, souvlaki
Preparing gyros

Greek Day, Vancouver, Greek, West, Broadway, 2010, souvlaki

Greek Day, Vancouver, Greek, West, Broadway, 2010
My gyro… Not from the stand mentioned above. It was a fail because it was more in lines of ground meat rather than that sliced version.

Greek Day, Vancouver, Greek, West, Broadway, 2010, yogurt, yoghurt, honey
I didn’t order this; instead, I took it from somebody else… Without her noticing! Shame? What shame?

Greek Day, Vancouver, Greek, West, Broadway, 2010, souvlaki, chicken, pork
I also ordered a pork souvlaki…

Greek Day, Vancouver, Greek, West, Broadway, 2010, souvlaki, pork, chicken
I also ordered a chicken souvlaki from a different stand. It was better prepared than the one from the pork soulvalki.

Greek Day, Vancouver, Greek, West, Broadway, 2010, dessert
At least Greeks are better than Chinese, from the dessert’s perspective…

Greek Day, Vancouver, Greek, West, Broadway, 2010, dessert, baklava, galaktoboureko

Greek Day, Vancouver, Greek, West, Broadway, 2010,dessert, baklava, galaktoboureko
Ended up ordering a galaktoboureko, custard sandwich between phyllo with a hint of orange. Yumm!

Now, as the subject of this post suggests, I also went to the Greek Summer Festival. This event will be up until July 11th so you still have a week to go! Now, I went twice already and there are chances I will go again so the pictures below are based on what I have ordered so far. Since I don’t expect things to be that different from last year to this, things like lamb will be… Oh, well, almost the same as last year! But, as for what I have ordered so far this year…

Greek Summer Festival, Vancouver, Greek, Summer, Festival, 2010, pork, souvlaki, dinner, chicken, salad, horiatiki
Pork souvlaki dinner, with salad, bread, tzatziki and rice – $14

Greek Summer Festival, Vancouver, Greek, Summer, Festival, 2010, greek, yogurt, yougurt, yoghurt
Greek yoghurt with honey. Disappointed it was scooped out from a commercial container… And charge $3 for it!

Greek Summer Festival, Vancouver, Greek, Summer, Festival, 2010, tzatziki, spinach, pie, spanakopita
Spanakopita (appetizer), served with tzatziki – $4



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1 trisha July 6, 2010 at 1:10 pm

baklava! i want some now… with a spanakopita for lunch. greek fest needs to be closer to my work…

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