There is one genuine culinary delight that is getting harder to find in this city - the Gyro. Yeah I know you can get them at the local Pita Palace at the mall or whatever, but the true art of the gyro is lost on these amateurs. Not to be taken lightly, a gyro (pronounced yeero) is more than just another fast food, it is the most intense of the fast food.
The pita bread must be grilled - not steamed and wrapped around gyro meat (beef and lamb) that has been slowly roasting on a spit for hours, if not days. This is where the amateur shops fail. The meat has to be freshly cut off the spit. The icing that pushes the gyro beyond indulgence into whole-body experience can be found in its onions (and tomatoes if you wish) topped by a huge wad of real tzatziki (yogurt-garlic) sauce - not that processed squeezed-out-of-a-bottle crap.
There's a chain in Quebec that offers such a delicacy - Kojax. If they opened one up here, I would need to sell my house and buy an isolated property on an acreage, so people didn't have to smell the garlic reeking off of me all day......
6 comments:
Karl, have you tried OPA ? I think you might be presently suprized. They grill the pita just right, 4 different kinds of meat, ans they're tzatziki is awesome.
Jeff, CA5
Don't recall if I tried them or not...maybe it's time to revisit.
Yes, I think it is time for a revisit, they're in almost every mall now.
BTW it should be "plesasently suprized" - my typing STILL sux :)
Jeff
The thing out here in Alberta are the health regs . If the shop isn't busy enough the donair meat gets over cooked on the outside and if they shut of the element the meat cools down to a perfect breeding temp for all kinds of nasty bugs. That's why you will see some places with pre sliced meat. when it is ready the cook slices, portions it out and puts it in the fridge. I know it's not the same as when it is sliced right off the spit into a nicely grilled pita. But until the blog can get more people eating a great sandwich that's the way it is
Dvd
Well, there ya have it folks. Get out there and eat more gyros. Go on! Why are you still reading this comment? Git!
BTW, I took Jeff's advice and gave Opa a try. Not bad - not bad at all. You were right on all counts.
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