Snack

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The Scene
The tiny dining room--with just five tables--is pleasingly like eating in a rustic kitchen: Greek packaged foods decorate the shiny white walls, and customers bustle to and fro. The waitstaff can be brusque when it's busy, but the atmosphere is generally comfortable.

The Food
These are simple, hearty Greek dishes with minimal frills. The appetizers, hot and cold, are especially delicious. Hot, flaky spinach pies and cheese pies burst with comforting buttery flavor, while stuffed grape leaves rouse the palate with brine. A host of dips--chickpea, carp roe, garlic--are complex, pleasing and filling. Entrees impress less: a sweetish, oniony lamb stew is serviceable, though not memorable, and salt-cod cakes could be more flavorful. But a meal of small plates, to go or to stay, is a definite winner.