This is the one. At its 32nd year, this is arguably the grand-daddy of all OC food festivals. This is “A Taste of Greece” at St. Paul's Greek Orthodox Church in Irvine.
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Of course, there will be vendors selling gyros, pastichio (Greek lasagna), loucanico (Greek sausage), spanakopita (spinach and feta pie), dolmathes (stuffed grape leaves), saganaki (Greek brandy-flamed cheese) and so much teeth-rotting baklava to give your oral hygenist nightmares.
Of course, there will be dancing, music, and wine. The friggin' thing lasts three days.
Festival hours are 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Friday, June 25; noon to 10 p.m. on Saturday, June 26; and noon to 9 p.m. on Sunday, June 27.
But the best part is that, unlike other latter day food festivals, the fee to enter is just $3 per person with free admission on Saturday, June 26 from noon – 5 p.m. Children under the age of 10 and seniors older than 65 years old get in free all the time. Now that's a party.
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Before becoming an award-winning restaurant critic for OC Weekly in 2007, Edwin Goei went by the alias “elmomonster” on his blog Monster Munching, in which he once wrote a whole review in haiku.