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“Christos Steakhouse”

Occasion:	Cuisine:	Area:	Cost:	Rating:
Night Out	Greek	Queens	Moderate	Good

yla, and at Thalassa where she was the general manager. She’s been out of the restaurant kitchen for a while, working on her own catering business (www.boutiquecatering.com), but lucky for us, she came back to create the menu for Christos, and will stay on through the end of April.

We started with some fried zucchini and eggplant, sliced into thin chips in a crisp but fluffy golden batter and a creamy tzatziki dipping sauce ($10). It was the perfect snack to order while perusing the menu. (A basket of thick-cut sliced loaves of bread with kalamata dip is served gratis.)

Since we are suckers for Greek dips and pita, we went for the family style platter of Taramasolata, Tzatziki, and roasted eggplant spreads ($12)—all bright and zippy with fresh herbs and a good dose of garlic—served with puffy rounds of hot pita, marked from the grill, shimmering with olive oil. The Kobe Steak Tartar ($12) is a recipe for diehard carnivores (moi, for instance). It is a giant mound of garnet steak hand cut into a glistening dice that gives it great texture. The beef is amply seasoned with salt, pepper, capers, onions, and Dijon mustard, and is topped with a little raw quail egg in its shell that I spooned out and mixed into the tartar, before topping my crostini with a healthy forkful. Then I went back for more. Alison doesn’t eat meat, a boon for Jamie and me.

The Chopped Salad ($14) was fabulous. It is a wildly generous portion (the first courses are oversized and meant to be shared family style) of fresh crunchy chopped vegetables—scallions, cucumbers, red onion, watercress, radishes, and tomatoes, and green beans, tossed with chopped egg and crispy bits of smoky bacon. A nice option that Mina offers is that every salad can be turned into a more substantial meal with a topper of petit filet, yellowfin tuna, shrimp, chicken or lobster tail ($12-$14).

The entrée section of the menu strolls away from Greece and walks confidently into the realm of the American steakhouse. Actually, there is a slight tip of the hand to Greece in side dishes like sautéed spinach with feta, and baked orzo with Kefalograviera cheese ($6), but otherwise, you are in the midst of cowboy heaven. The steak list includes a massive Porterhouse for two (48-ounces, $67), or for three (63-ounces $88), a Fred Flintstone-styled T-Bone (24-ounces, $29) and my choice, a New York Strip (18-ounces, $26). Jamie and ... [more, click below]

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Posted: February 27, 2006

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