horiatiki

Less successful was the horiatiki.

The best salad is the horiatiki, the Greek classic of tomatoes, cucumbers, red onions and feta cheese.

Horiatiki: Made in a Tapsi pan.

One, Manolis, serves the typical horiatiki, or Greek salad, as well as grilled chicken, keftedes (meatballs), baked eggplant and stewed okra.

À la carte salads like the Cretan bread salad and the horiatiki (country Greek salad without lettuce) were entree-size plates featuring summer-ripe tomatoes.

We tried the horiatiki salad (which has no lettuce and is what arrives when Greek salad is ordered in Greece) and found the pale, anemic tomatoes a travesty.

In these countries, the true Greek salad, when encountered, may be called by the Greek term horiatiki or by such terms as "country salad", "peasant salad", or "village salad", to avoid confusion.

Recommended dishes: Calamari, white beans, portobello mushrooms, spanakopita-tiropita, three dips, horiatiki, mushroom salad, lamb shank stew, leg of lamb, black sea bass, moussaka, veal scallops, walnut cake, rice pudding.

Greek salad: the so-called Greek salad is known in Greece as village/country salad (horiatiki) and is essentially a tomato salad with cucumber, red onion, feta cheese, and kalamata olives, dressed with olive oil.

WHAT WE LIKED Tzatziki, taramosalata, grilled eggplant and zucchini, grilled octopus, Greek sausage, Greek salad, horiatiki salad, branzino, grilled shrimp, lamb chops, meatballs, galaktoboureko.

WHAT WE LIKED Fried calamari, kolokithokeftedes, horiatiki salad, spanakopita, Greek spreads; grilled salmon, souvlaki and gyro platters; baklava, galaktoboureko, parfait of Greek yogurt with nuts and honey.

We liked the Greek salad of julienned romaine, tomatoes, onions, cucumbers, olives, peppers and feta, and the horiatiki salad — the salad one encounters in Greece — with ripe tomatoes, cucumbers, onions and feta.

RECOMMENDED DISHES - Fried zucchini, fried eggplant, avgolemono soup, Cretan bread salad, horiatiki, gyro, Greek sausage, shish kebab, Goddess combo, shrimp, flounder and salmon combo, baklava, sour cherry roll, yogurt.