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Our dish — the plate we'd order here firstGyros choirinos se pita (Γύρος χοιρινός σε πίτα)
Pork gyros, carved from the spit, in a pita wrap
Marinated
Where it comes fromAdopted by Athens
Athens saw its first minced doner in 1962, when the turning spit followed the city's post-war souvlaki carts. In 2009 the food writers Kremezi and Helou argued that Greeks made the doner known abroad as gyro.
Sources: Ta Nea (2023); To Vima (2022); M. Hulot, LiFO (2026, 2025).
At O Bilis
Carved from the family's own spit, built each morning from meat boned and marinated in the house, and wrapped with its homemade red sauce.
From O Bilis's own menu and pages, as we read them in November 2026.
Also on our table
- A kalamaki, a pork skewer, to follow
O Bilis
Greek · souvlatzidiko (souvlaki shop) · Nikaia (Agios Georgios), Athens
Panagi Tsaldari 245, 184 53 Nikaia
Nikaia's family grill since 1977, for gyros from a spit it builds by hand.
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