{"id":7847,"date":"2019-02-16T21:16:06","date_gmt":"2019-02-17T02:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?p=7847"},"modified":"2019-02-16T21:16:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T02:16:06","slug":"taverna-kos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?p=7847","title":{"rendered":"Taverna Kos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Instagram Post 2\/16\/2019<\/h4>\n

(Click on any image to view it in high resolution.)<\/em>
\n\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>
\nWith the nouveau communal aura of a private club at long last turned public, Taverna Kos, the restaurant wing of the Pancoan Society Hippocrates, has opened its doors to the hoi polloi. Entering at 41-19 23rd Ave in Astoria, Queens, we found the atmosphere as casual and comfortable as an old sandal, an adumbration of homestyle Greek cuisine.<\/p>\n

[1] Octopus (\u03c7\u03c4\u03b1\u03c0\u03cc\u03b4\u03b9). Perfectly tender and utterly delectable. One of two top notch appetizers, the other being…<\/p>\n

[2] Loukaniko (\u03bb\u03bf\u03c5\u03ba\u03ac\u03bd\u03b9\u03ba\u03bf), the amazing sausage that\u2019s often overlooked unless you\u2019re among the cognoscenti or Greek. Excellent, with that all-important char, beefy and spicy; I tasted leeks, Greek oregano, and whole coriander seed. That lemon isn\u2019t there just for show; give it a squeeze.<\/p>\n

[3] We also ordered Pikilia (\u03c0\u03bf\u03b9\u03ba\u03b9\u03bb\u03af\u03b1) which means a variety of choices, in this case a trio of dips: spicy feta with persuasive overtones of olive oil; skordalia (\u03c3\u03ba\u03bf\u03c1\u03b4\u03b1\u03bb\u03b9\u03ac), often overwhelmed by garlic but which here had an unimpeachable balance between that and the pur\u00e9ed potatoes; and a demure tzatziki, barely herby and scarcely garlicky.<\/p>\n

[4] Kalamari. We voted between fried and grilled. We ordered fried. I lost.<\/p>\n

[5] Saganaki (\u03c3\u03b1\u03b3\u03b1\u03bd\u03ac\u03ba\u03b9) is a luscious appetizer of fried kefalograviera, a deliciously intense Greek sheep\u2019s cheese, melty and gooey, often set aflame before serving and sometimes topped with an egg. This rendition wasn\u2019t up to snuff; maybe it had been away from the fire too long.
\n 
\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Instagram Post 2\/16\/2019 (Click on any image to view it in high resolution.) With the nouveau communal aura of a private club at long last turned public, Taverna Kos, the restaurant wing of the Pancoan Society Hippocrates, has opened its … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3336,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,6],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-7847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-instagram","category-restaurants-food-courts","tag-greek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7847"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7849,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7847\/revisions\/7849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}