Is Greek Village Grille Still Open? Food Paradise Update (Lakewood, OH)

Food Paradise, Season 14, Episode 5

Greek Village Grille appeared in Food Paradise's "Food Paradise XL" episode (S14E5). It is a family-owned Greek restaurant in Lakewood, Ohio, run by chef-owner Tommy Karakostas, who built the menu around his own Greek heritage. The restaurant makes homemade gyros, souvlaki, spanakopita, and dolmades, and is known for its oversized ten-pound "Mount Olympus Gyro," piled with lamb, beef, chicken, and pork on a single pita. It opened on Lakewood's Madison Avenue restaurant strip and has built a following for its scratch cooking. According to the restaurant's own website, checked in September 2026, it continues to operate seven days a week with an online ordering option. Yelp's listing for the business, updated August 2026, shows an active page of customer reviews, indicating the restaurant remains open in the Cleveland area.

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Greek Village Grille, a family-owned Greek restaurant at 14019 Madison Avenue in Lakewood, Ohio, was the site of the episode's Mount Olympus Challenge, an 8-pound gyro built on a 20-inch pita loaded with rotisserie pork, chicken, and a lamb-and-beef mixture, according to Wikipedia's episode list for the show, a challenge the host did not finish within the show's format. The original listing gave the city as Cleveland, but the restaurant is actually located in Lakewood, an adjoining suburb on Cleveland's near-west side. Since airing, the restaurant has kept operating at the same Madison Avenue address: its own site lists current hours, an active online-ordering system, job postings, and a Labor Day promotional banner timed to the September 2026 holiday. Greek Village Grille has also been featured on Food Paradise and The Best Thing I Ever Ate, according to fan site TVFoodMaps.