A trip to Tarpon Springs unrelated to FFF brought Greek food to the fore. For those of you unaware, the town of about 26,000, 30 miles north of St. Petersburg, is known for its Greek heritage, largely because immigrants from the Dodecanese islands worked as sponge divers starting in the early 1900s.
The quaint downtown has more than a dozen Greek eateries. I chose Hellas Restaurant, which opened in 1969 in Chicago’s Greektown and moved to Tarpon Springs in 1983. As a competitor, I selected Mythos Greek Bistro, which opened in early December in St. Pete’s Grand Central District. (The space most recently housed the Salty Nun.)
So — something old, something new ……