New York’s Best Meat Skewers Come From The Souvlaki Lady Street Cart in Queens – Dining on a Dime

Greeks have been grilling meat for centuries, and the tradition is being kept alive withThe Souvlaki Lady, who has been on the corner of Ditmars and 33rd St in Astoria, Queens for 30 years. On this episode of Dining on a Dime, Lucas Peterson tries her namesake souvlaki, with some soutzoukakia and some delicious (and secret) sauces.

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[jeffward]

I appreciate how Lucas describes the dishes honestly & intelligently.

[radomark]

LOVE GREEK FOOD! Def. made my mouth water! Excellent episode!

[FlowerofDissolution]

The last one sounds like a "mixed grill", a pretty common dish in Greece (well, at least when I was there years ago). You'd get beef, chicken, pork, some sausage, lamb - all in one dish. Served souvlaki-style with fried potatoes, tzatziki, and some veggies. Also, fresh lemon to squeeze over the meat. Super delicious and you'll definitely be full after a meal like that.

[samirgacevic]

Gotta love the Souvlaki Lady! So happy Eater and Lucas came out to Ditmars Astoria! Respresent! You guys should check out King of Falafel in Astoria! Another really popular spot!

[camiloandres]

Astoria my neighborhood ♥ unfortunately gentrification has worsen our neighborhood a lot. Two great restaurants in Astoria are definitely Taverna Kyclades and Zenon Taverna. Another great sport is BZ Grill! If you ever visit Astoria you won't regret visiting any of these three places for sure!

[johndearing]

Man, going through these videos again, I need more lucas videos. Yours are my favorite on this channel.

[solomonsilal]

Love Greek food especially the salad and grilled chicken with Mediterranean spices

[Boshtunes]

Thanks for checking out Ditmars! There's so much great stuff to eat up here. Major props for not doing Taverna Kyclades like 99% of other food shows!

[FLN]

Bravo Souvlaki Lady mou. Na mou ziseis gia panta... 🇬🇷👍

[DekuStickGamer]

Eater be makin Lucas eat chicken skewers, just because hes the only presenter who could last 5 minutes talking about it.

[MisoDope]

Lucas is so knowledgeable about everything cuisine! It's so impressive, especially when he attempted to guess the special sauce.

[ljplatano]

The food looks awesome, hope for much success to the family!

[briankim]

Souvlaki is the best shoegazing album by Slowdive.

[Nickys-vz]

Great report..cool lady and daughter..food looks amazing..

[jy]

"lotta lemon lot of salt" one of the many things I miss about Astoria

[mitchlippmann]

Can you do an episode of the chinese restaurants you grew up on in your home town

[joyjoyoo]

There's also a lamb skewer lady in flushing

[tosht]

Here before all the anti-finger eaters show up.

Another excellent Lucas video. 👍

[sammythebullgravano]

2:46 i understood "ellada" when he said "i love it"

[ariel]

That looks yummy! I'm all for grilled food.