Foodie Facts Venue: Lazaros, 49, Market Street, Hoylake, Wirral, CH47 2BQ Details of meal: Classic Greek dishes including individual dishes and generous set menu
mezes to share Service: Chatty, friendly, accommodating Value: Three-course
meze is PS19.95, and there's plenty of it Disabled access: Yes
Mezes - which means taste, flavour, snack or relish - are a feature of Middle Eastern cuisine meant to whet your appetite.
There are also pounds 6.95 and pounds 11.95
mezes, but in for a penny and all that.
Maybe that's why the Bay Area's Greek-American community has embraced the festival, to the point that the Olympians have been unofficially adopted by a local Greek restaurant,
Mezes.
From fish, lamb, fruit, olive oil and vegetables to tapas,
mezes and desserts.
And the hotel's two restaurants of fer a mouth-watering selection of fresh seafood, traditional Cypriot Cuisine and delicious
mezes.
From delicious
mezes to elaborate vegetarian and seafood dishes.
I never met a man whose thoughts ran so identically with mine." House expressed similar enthusiasm about Wilson in a letter to his brother-in-law, College of the City of New York President Sidney
Mezes: "It is just such a chance as I have always wanted for never before have I found both the man and the opportunity."
Kinzer delights in the often ironic and sometimes delicious contrasts of Turkish life, so much so, in fact, that he intersperses the book's ten main chapters with colorful vignettes he calls "
mezes", the Turkish term for the plates of appetizers served at fish restaurants along with alcohol.
There are more than 250 recipes for national specialities such as olives, fetas and seafood
mezes.
The Royal Tokaji Wine Company has released for sale a few hundred bottles of its
Mezes Maly Aszu 1993 vintage.
Make sure you try the "
mezes." It means snack and is served in small portions so several dishes can be tried at the same time.