Lamb chops

Milk-fed lamb chops over charcoal with salt and oregano, lemon and hand-cut fries. Four decades of doing one thing, and the plate we came for.

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To Steki tou Ilia

Greek · charcoal grill · paidakia · Thiseio, Athens

Thessalonikis 7, 118 51 Athens

One family has grilled lamb chops over real charcoal in Thiseio for more than forty years. They call the chops their signature, and that's the plate.

The proof, in the house's own words

Strong evidence

Technique
Real charcoal, salt and oregano: nothing else touches the meat.
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Tradition
Grilled the same way by the same family for over forty years.
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Sourcing
Milk-fed lamb, the young lamb Greece grills for feasts.
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Local choice
The family's own signature, in its own words.
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We'd add

Our runner-up

Pork belly from the same charcoal, to share after the chops.

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