Greek food in Sarasota · family-owned since 2004
Spanakopita, Greek Salad and Gyro Platters — the Greek Half of Our Kitchen.
We are a Sarasota pizza place with a real Greek kitchen behind it. Flaky spanakopita (Greek spinach pie), a Greek salad with the house dressing people ask us to bottle, house-made tzatziki, avgolemono soup and gyro platters. Pickup in 15–20 minutes, delivery in 30–45.
Pickup is free and fastest — 8 out of 10 orders are boxed and waiting inside 20 minutes, free parking right out front. Delivery is a flat $2.99 within 4 miles (free on your first online order and again over $60), $15 minimum, 30–45 minutes. You pay restaurant prices either way — the delivery apps add 15–30%.
The Greek dishes
What to order if you came here for the Greek food
Our gyros have their own page. This is everything else the Greek side of the kitchen makes — the dishes our regulars order without looking at the menu.
Spinach Pie (Spanakopita)
Layers of flaky phyllo baked around creamy spinach and feta, seasoned with kalamata olives. Big enough to be lunch on its own.
Greek Salad
Feta, ripe tomato, red onion, olives and crisp greens with our tangy house Greek dressing on the side. Add gyro meat or grilled chicken to make it a meal.
Classic Gyro Platter
A full plate of gyro meat, with warm pita on the side, Greek salad and extra tzatziki. The sandwich version is $10.99.
Chicken Lemon Soup (Avgolemono)
The Greek classic: homemade chicken broth whisked with egg and lemon juice, with carrots, celery and orzo. Bright, thick and comforting.
Prices shown are menu prices and can vary by size and add-ons; your total is shown at checkout before you pay. Tax is added at checkout.
If you have never ordered it
What spanakopita actually is
Spanakopita (say it “span-ah-KO-pee-tah”) is Greek spinach pie. Sheet after sheet of phyllo — paper-thin pastry, brushed and layered until it bakes into something shattering-crisp — wrapped around a filling of spinach and feta, with kalamata olives folded through for salt and depth.
It is not a quiche and not a spinach turnover. The inside stays creamy and savoury; the outside crackles. In Greece it is everyday food: breakfast, a snack, a light lunch, a side next to a salad. Here, it is the dish guests write about — one review simply says it is the best spinach pie in my life.
It is vegetarian. It travels well, which is why it is one of the most reliable things you can add to a pickup order. It is not gluten-free — phyllo is wheat pastry.
The one people come back for
Why our Greek salad tastes different
Most places pour a bottled Italian vinaigrette over lettuce and call it Greek. Ours is built the other way round: crisp greens, ripe tomato, red onion, olives and a real block-cut feta — then our own house Greek dressing, made in this kitchen, served on the side so nothing wilts on the way to you.
That dressing is the reason the Greek salad is the single biggest non-pizza order on our menu — bigger than any sub, any pasta, any burger. Guests ask for extra containers of it, and we sell it by the side.
Want it as a full meal? Add gyro meat or grilled chicken and it becomes dinner. Prefer something heartier? The Greek Pasta Salad puts rotini, cucumber, tomato, onion and feta under the same house vinaigrette.
Greek Salad
Feta, tomato, red onion, olives, greens, house Greek dressing.
Medium $9.99 · Large $12.99
Greek Pasta Salad
Rotini with lettuce, tomato, onion, cucumber and feta in house vinaigrette.
Medium $9.99 · Large $13.49
Add grilled or crispy chicken or gyro meat $2.49 / $3.49. Extra Greek dressing or tzatziki $2.49. Garden Salad $8.49 / $11.99 · Caesar $7.99 / $10.99 · Chef $10.99 / $13.49 · Antipasto $10.99 / $13.99.
The rest of the Greek table
Tzatziki, avgolemono and baklava
Small things, made properly, that turn a pizza order into a Greek meal.
House-made tzatziki
Thick Greek yogurt with cucumber, garlic and dill — cool, sharp and made here, not poured from a jug. It goes on every gyro, and you can add a side to anything. Extra tzatziki $2.49.
Avgolemono soup
On our menu as Chicken Lemon Soup. Homemade chicken broth thickened with egg and lemon, with carrots, celery and orzo. The Greek answer to chicken noodle. $5.99
Baklava
Chopped nuts layered between sheets of phyllo, baked and soaked in honey syrup. One piece, two forks — it is sweeter and denser than it looks. $6.00
Already have a favourite?
The gyros have their own page
Classic beef-and-lamb, chicken or beef steak —, never pre-scooped, on warm pita with our house tzatziki, tomato and red onion. As a sandwich to go, or a platter with Greek salad and pita on the side.
And the pizza it all sits next to
Greek-style pan pizza, explained
“Greek pizza” confuses half the people who hear it, so here is the short version: it is a New England pan pizza invented by Greek families who opened pizzerias there in the 1960s and 70s. The dough proofs 24 hours in olive oil and bakes in a seasoned pan, so the bottom comes out golden and almost pan-fried instead of thin and floppy.
Eleni’s family brought that recipe south to Sarasota in 2004. Our Large is a true 16 inches — most places around here stop at 14. And if you want the two halves of the menu at once, the Spinachine pie puts spinach and feta straight on the pan crust.
1,600+ neighbors have already reviewed us
The pizza brings people in. The Greek food is what they write about.
“Best spinach pie in my life. I drive past three other places to get it and I would do it again.”
“This place is a hidden gem! We’ve been coming here for years and the quality never drops. The gyro platter and Greek salad are outstanding. Staff is always friendly.”
“Best pizza in the Sarasota-Bradenton area hands down — but don’t sleep on the Greek side. Huge portions, great prices, everything fresh.”
Find us
Eleni’s Pizza Works
6711 15th St E
Sarasota, FL 34243
In the Airport Commerce Center near the Bradenton border, five minutes from I-75 exit 217. Free parking lot out front.
Hours
- Monday – Friday10:00 AM – 9:00 PM
- Saturday11:00 AM – 9:00 PM
- Sunday12:00 PM – 8:00 PM
- Lunch specialsMon–Fri, 11 AM – 3 PM
Good to know
Spanakopita and the Greek salad are vegetarian. Spanakopita and gyros are served on wheat phyllo and pita, so they are not gluten-free — but gyro meat over a Greek salad is.
Delivery covers about 4 miles: Sarasota 34243, Whitfield, Tallevast, Bradenton 34203, Bayshore Gardens, South Bradenton and Desoto Lakes. Pickup is open to everyone.
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Hungry for something Greek?
Spinach pie, Greek salad, gyro platters. Pickup in 15–20 minutes, delivery in 30–45.