Ovelia: Gourmet New York

See what the chef at New York’s Ovelia served up at the 2013 sofi Awards—the specialty food industry’s version of the Oscars.

Ovelia’s Greek coffee steak, sesame crusted feta with a drizzle of Greek honey, and chickpea salad. Jan Jekielek/Epoch Times

Ovelia was one of the restaurants chosen to serve some of the top culinary talent in the world, the finalists of the Specialty Food Association’s sofi Awards, at New York City’s Javits Center earlier this month. The Epoch Times visited Ovelia and asked the restaurant to recreate what its chef served.

Ovelia chef-owner Peter Giannakas brought his background as an experimental microbiologist into the arena of food with a modern, scrumptious take on Greek cuisine at Ovelia Psistaria Bar in Astoria, Queens—while his parents Loannis and Evangelia execute more traditional fare.