The Best Greek Food Around Me – Serving Up Traditional Deliciousness at The Black Olive

December 3, 2019 at 5:00 AM
by The Black Olive
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Are you the type of person that is constantly looking to try new restaurants, experience new foods, and find new places in which to make memories? If that sounds like you, chances are you’ve recently engaged in a web search that’s gone something like this:

“Hey, Google, where can I find the best Greek food around me?”

And if you’re anywhere near Fells Point, Baltimore, Google’s going to do you a favor and tell you to come here, to the Black Olive.

What’s on the menu?

Our extensive menu has something for everyone, so we can guarantee you’ll leave happy. From tried and true classics like our Greek Style Lamb Chops to our very own invention, Savory Bread Pudding, we promise you’ll find something to love. With our soups, salads, and desserts, we’ve got you covered.

Are you a big seafood fan? You’re in luck! Unlike other Greek restaurants, we cater to fans of all kinds of seafood – from fish to shrimp – and we know how to do it right. We even display our fresh ingredients so that you can see exactly what you’re getting.

The Black Olive is well known for our extensive seafood offerings, always made with fresh, high-quality ingredients. And with such a variety of ingredients, we knew we had to find great ways to serve them. We offer our fish in any way you can think: grilled, whole, in soups, on salads, skewered – you name it, we do it.

If fish isn’t your style, don’t worry. Our seafood offerings include everything from mussels to grilled octopus, and it’s all prepared to perfection for the enjoyment of your tastebuds. No one can beat us when it comes to authentic, delicious seafood.

Have a drink with us

Even the most delicious dinner would be incomplete without the perfect glass of wine to complement it. We know that, and it’s why we offer an extensive, award-winning wine list with thousands of choices for you to peruse.

We have a passion for finding the perfect wine for your meal, and so we’ve reached out across the world to bring you the best wines, with a special emphasis on those that come from traditional Greek winemaking methods.

With over 5000 bottles in our collection, we are more than capable of satisfying even the most discerning tastes.

Where it all started

Our story begins over a century ago, when the Spiliadis family moved from Northern Greece to Istanbul and opened a hotel and restaurant on the coast of the Black Sea. There they soon gained popularity due to their excellent cooking, which they brought back to Greece in the 1920s.

Only a few decades later, Stelios Spiliadis would move to Baltimore to attend Johns Hopkins University (the school that would later become the Black Olive’s #1 customer!), meet and marry his wife, and start a family – and later a family-owned restaurant.

Our penchant for simple, traditional food is reflected in the offerings at the Black Olive restaurant, where many of our recipes are the same ones the Spiiliadis family used in back in the day.

So while our Fells Point location is still young, we are built on generations of passionate cooks whose desire to serve only the finest, freshest food is echoed by our own wishes to do the same.

Simple never tasted so good

So what are you waiting for?

Whether you come for our special seafood menu, for one of our fantastic events, or to try a new wine from our award-winning wine list, we guarantee that you’ll leave happy. Our passion for creating a memorable dining experience, and our promise to serve only high-quality food, will bring you back for more.

And the next time someone asks you where the best Greek food is in Baltimore, we think we know what you're going to tell them.