All aboard the international cruise of flavors.......This crazy cruise ship has embarked upon a world tour, with curious and hungry cachers aboard. The itinerary is every country in the world, one restaurant at a time, all without leaving the confines of Central New Jersey. 90th Stop ... Greece!
Join the North Central Jersey Cachers as we venture along the Danube and into the Adriatic Sea to the Southeastern European country of Greece!
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 @ 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Pithari Taverna
28 Woodbridge Ave.
Highland Park, NJ
Enjoy delicious food and good company as this wacky cruise ship voyages to the Southeastern European country of Greece! It’s been over 7 years since passengers on the cruise have been able to savor Greek cuisine, so we are returning to islands in the Aegean and Ionian seas along our way to future ports of call!
A taverna is a small Greek restaurant that serves Greek cuisine. The taverna is an integral part of Greek culture and has become familiar to people from other countries who visit Greece, as well as through the establishment of tavernas in countries such as the United States and Australia by expatriate Greeks.
This is one such place - with many authentic Greek dishes stemming from the finest Hellenic ingredients and traditional methods of cooking!
Greek tavernas serve many delicious appetizers, including:
- Dolmades - stuffed grape leaves with rice and herbs
- Gigantes - giant Greek beans in tomato sauce
- Horta - select dandelion greens
- Humus - chickpea, tahini and garlic dip
- Keftedakia - seasoned meat balls, served with imported Greek yogurt
- Loukaniko - grilled Greek sausage
- Melitzanosalata - roasted eggplant dip
- Mydia Krassata - mussels in port wine sauce, feta cheese and herbs
- Piperyies Florinis Yemistes - roasted red peppers stuffed with spicy feta
- Saganaki - flaming pan seared Greek graviera
- Tyrokaterfi - spicy feta cheese
- Tzatziki - yogurt, cucumber and garlic dip
Greek tavernas provide many delicious soups, such as:
- Avgolemono - egg-lemon soup
- Tasolada - beansoup with green lentils, tomato and extra virgin olive oil
- Tomato soup - creamy homemade tomato soup with Greek pasta
Greek tavernas also offer a variety of lamb, beef, chicken, seafood, pasta and vegetarian entrees, including:
- Arni Yiouvetsi - slowly cooked lamb shank in a homemade tomato sauce over orzo
- Kotta Paidakia - grilled chicken
- Lahanodolmades - cabbage rolls stuffed with ground beef and rice in an egg-lemon sauce
- Mosharaki Stamnas - beef cooked in tomato sauce with eggplan, zucchini and potatoes
- Mousaka - eggplant, potato, ground meat and béchamel cream
- Papoutsakia - stuffed eggplant with vegetables, herbs and bechamel
- Souvlaki - chicken or pork kebab
- Spanakopita - spinach and feta cheese in phylo dough
- Thallasina Ellinika - shrimp, scallops and crabmeat sautéed in natural orange juice, with pears over rice
- Tsipoura Sta Karvouna - wild caught porgy fish
- Yemista - stuffed tomatoes with rice and herbs
The Greek version of “cheers” is YA MAS, which means “to our health”. As in other countries, you clink glasses when you toast. In fact, there’s a theory that this tradition originated with the Ancient Greeks. By clinking your glasses together your drink would slosh into the other person’s glass and therefore if it was poisoned, they would be poisoned too!
There are 10 parking spots in the parking lot behind the restaurant on South 7th Ave. There are also a few parking spots out front on Woodbridge Ave. If both these areas are full, you can park at the Parking Area Waypoint across the street at the Bank of America.
World Culinary Cruise Itinerary
1 - Mexico - July 16, 2012
2 - Greece - August 23, 2012
3 - Japan - September 12, 2012
4 - India - October 11, 2012
5 - Russia - November 14, 2012
6 - Poland - December 5, 2012
7 - Ireland - January 22, 2013
8 - France - February 26, 2013
9 - Spain - March 13, 2013
10 - Thailand - April 30, 2013
11 - Portugal - May 28, 2013
12 - United States of America - June 4, 2013
13 - Afghanistan - July 11, 2013
14 - Egypt - August 6, 2013
15 - United Kingdom - September 18, 2013
16 - Sweden - October 16, 2013
17 - Peru - November 6, 2013
18 - Germany - December 20, 2013
19 - Ghana - January 7, 2014
20 - Polynesia - February 19, 2014
21 - Sri Lanka - March 13, 2014
22 - Korea - April 22, 2014
23 - Jamaica - May 22, 2014
24 - Vietnam - June 25, 2014
25 - Mexico - July 23, 2014
26 - Mongolia - August 19, 2014
27 - Persia - September 17, 2014
28 - Philippines - October 15, 2014
29 - Dominican Republic - November 19, 2014
30 - Trinidad - December 10, 2014
31 - Nigeria - January 20, 2015
32 - Lebanon - February 18, 2015
33 - Cuba - March 24, 2015
34 - Brazil - April 21, 2015
35 - Turkey - May 27, 2015
36 - Hungary - June 6, 2015
37 - Canada - July 15, 2015
38 - Guyana - August 31, 2015
39 - Ethiopia - September 8, 2015
40 - Pakistan - October 14, 2015
41 - Columbia - November 24, 2015
42 - Malaysia - December 8, 2015
43 - Argentina - January 20, 2016
44 - Cameroon - February 17, 2016
45 - Taiwan - March 22, 2016
46 - Morocco - April 26, 2016
47 - Costa Rica - May 18, 2016
48 - Uruguay - June 15, 2016
49 - Angola & Mozambique - July 12, 2016
50 - Haiti - August 30, 2016
51 - El Salvador - September 21, 2016
52 - Uzbekistan - October 19, 2016
53 - Puerto Rico - November 29, 2016
54 - Bangladesh - December 13, 2016
55 - Scotland - January 24, 2017
56 - Guatemala - February 22, 2017
57 - Venezuela - March 28, 2017
58 - Indonesia - April 26, 2017
59 - Syria - May 23, 2017
60 - Italy - June 13, 2017
61 - Ecuador - July 18, 2017
62 - Jordan - August 24, 2017
63 - Liberia - September 21, 2017
64 - Cyprus - October 25, 2017
65 - Israel - November 29, 2017
66 - Belize - December 12, 2017
67 - Slovakia - January 30, 2018
68 - Saudi Arabia - February 27, 2018
69 - Ukraine - March 9, 2018
70- Grenada - April 24, 2018
71 - Senegal - May 22, 2018
72 - Australia - June 12, 2018
73 - Honduras - July 24, 2018
74 - Chile - August 7, 2018
75 - Armenia - September 15, 2018
76 - Panama - October 30, 2018
77 - Georgia - November 14, 2018
78 - Côte d’Ivoire - December 18, 2018
79 - Cambodia - January 29, 2019
80 - Bahamas - February 27, 2019
81 - Nepal - March 26, 2019
82 - Finland - April 18, 2019
83 - Nicaragua - May 22, 2019
84 - Switzerland - June 12, 2019
85 - Romania - July 13, 2019
86 - Belgium - August 7, 2019
87 - Bolivia - September 10, 2019
88 - China - October 22, 2019
89 - Austria - November 19, 2019
90 - Greece - December 10, 2019
Follow our culinary adventures throughout Central New Jersey with "The Suitcase of Destiny" and chart our virtual cruise around the world with the "World Travel Geocoin."
Where will this ship pull into port next? Only the pink flamingo knows....
