ATHENA’S GREEK CAFE AND BAKERY

By Elizabeth Lackey

If you are looking for authentic Greek food and great service, Athena’s Greek Café and Bakery at 1901 20th Street is the place to go.

They have a wide array of Greek dishes, such as steak pita and beef skewer. Both come with a choice of rice pilaf or Greek lemon roasted potatoes. It was all impeccably cooked, and the tzatziki on the pita was full of delicious flavor that complimented the seasoned steak very well.

Our server, Zach Wenzel, brought dessert; he was a wealth of knowledge. He said that all Greek food is extremely well seasoned, but not hot or spicy.

“The Greeks make their food with a lot of honey, that’s why the baklava is made with so much honey,” said Wenzel.

I tried the baklava, and was delighted to taste the delicious honey, in addition to all of the other ingredients.

This local, family-run business is certainly worth a visit, even if you only have room for one of their delightfully Greek desserts. Athena’s Greek Café and Bakery is open from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through Saturday.

By Joselyn Green

Located at 4120 Ming Avenue is a little yellow and green shack called Barrington’s Jamaican Kitchen.

This restaurant serves curry chicken, as well as jerk chicken; those plates come with plantains and rice and beans or cabbage.

Jerk chicken and curry are deeper than just delicious food. They come out of the history of not only Jamaicans, but Africans, the Arawak and Taíno.

The restaurant also serves oxtails and brown stew chicken Fridays through Sundays only, but is open on Tuesday through Sundays.

Barrington himself said “if you’ve been to Jamaica and you come back to America or wherever you go and come back to, you always crave the food.”

That part of the culture is well loved. Barrington also said, “the goal is to represent Jamaica in a small way so people can relive that experience.”