Baltimore’s First-Ever Greek Week Includes Local Restaurant Specials

This week you can escape to the Mediterranean!

Well, your taste buds can.

Baltimore is hosting its first-ever Greek Week, launched this week and concluding this Sunday, March 27. With 24 restaurants participating, you can sample everything from the casual Double T Diner’s spinach pie, moussaka, stuffed grape leaves and feta cheese, to the classy Black Olive’s kleftico.

What’s kleftico? It’s tender roasted lamb with lemon and cheese over couscous. Hungry?

Good. ‘Cuz you know there’s baklava for dessert.

In Dundalk, the at 1660 Merritt Blvd., is partipating, as well as Scoozi’s at 7625 German Hill Road.

A little further down the road, , at 4710 Eastern Ave., Acropolis Restaurant, at 4718 Eastern Ave., and Ikaros Restaurant, at 4805 Eastern Ave., in the heart of Greektown, are also among participating restaurants - with more in Canton and Fells Point

Greek Week is sponsored by the Baltimore-Piraeus Sister City Committee, founded in 1982 to promote cultural and business exchanges between the port cities of Baltimore and Piraeus, Greece. Eleni Peltsemes, lead organizer of Greek Week, is excited to share Greek culture through food.

“When you ask a Greek person what do they do for a living, they say, 'I’m in the restaurant business!'” said Peltsemes. “Every place has something to offer.”