mmm-yoso!!! is the name of this blog. Kirk, Ed(from Yuma) and Cathy share blogging responsibilities. Today, Cathy is responsible for yet another East County chicken and fried zucchini post.
Yes, I have posted about this restaurant before, in 2006. I wrote another post, in 2008 showing similar food items consumed here. So, there's been a time lag, new signage, a website and yet the quality and menu of items offered has remained unchanged. (Prices have increased though.)
This restaurant used to be a Foster's Freeze stand-alone location for more than 20 years and the footprint of the store, including the front counter, drive through, ice cream machine, kitchen and dining area remain unchanged. A nice change is that there are people cleaning and bussing the tables; you don't have to clean up after yourself.
A recent order: the medium Greek chicken salad ($10.25)(accompanied by the fresh, warm pita and house made tzatziki), an order of fried zucchini ($2.75) (accompanied by a nice Ranch dressing)…
and a gyros sandwich ($6.45). This was a large, filling, tasty meal which ended up with leftovers we took home for a later snack.
As always, the chicken is marinated, juicy, tasty. It is grilled and served warm on top of a Greek style salad (lettuce, tomato, onion, Feta, herb dressing). The zucchini sticks are breaded with a fresh herb-breadcrumb mix and fried just right- crispy and not oily and served with a Ranch type dip. The pita bread and gyros is consistently fresh and tasty and served with the house made tzatziki.
Another local place that has been here more than a decade.
Greek Chicken 1468 Graves Avenue El Cajon 92021 (619) 401-0700 Website 10:30 a.m.-9 p.m., daily
I would totally eat that but without the feta cheese! ๐
Mmm… More fried zucchini. ๐ Which version do you like better Greek Chicken or J-K?
I always think of you when I have Feta, cc…and how I just bough a chunk of it to eat on top of a piece of flatbread…its salty and dry and something I crave (in fact, the only thing I won’t eat is lima beans…can’t even look at a photo of them without feeling ill…)IN ANY CASE, the food here is always so very good.
Difficult to decide, Soo. Probably because the ones here are smaller/thinner and therefore have more breading to zucchini ratio, I do like Greek Chicken a bit more…but when I want more zucchini than breading…wait for another post…
Oh, I didn’t know about your aversion to lima beans!
How was their gyros?
A while back, I read an article that basically said that 90% of restaurants buy their gyros-meat-tower-skewer-thing from the same vendor.
I can believe that as every time I order gyros in SD, it’s waaay too salty and doesn’t really taste like real meat.
I wonder if it’s worth it to hoof it all the way out to El Cajon?
Does anyone know a good place to try closer to Kearny Mesa?
I mentioned something about that in this post back in 2011, SteveC /2011/08/16/spiros-gyros-coronado/ (just above the 7th photo). The gyros at Greek Chicken is a bit thinner sliced, which I like to ‘fluff’ within the sandwich while layering with the tzatziki. In Kearny Mesa, I can’t think of any Mediterranean near Convoy, but if you veer West, Balboa International Market (5907 Balboa Ave, **behind** the See’s, same parking lot) has a kitchen area in the back of the store, making fresh lamb, beef and chicken kabobs, which I think are excellent and would satisfy any gyros craving, but there is a gyros sandwich on the menu also.
Oh gosh yes, cc…lima beans+my stubbornness+ Mom’s consistency about me finishing everything on my plate= a staring contest, cold, cold lima beans and eventual vomit. To this day, a photograph of succotash is enough to get me going…
Thanks Cathy! I will take a look at the Balboa Market.