The Paris Chronicles Day 17 - Gyros

I am doing a quick shot out back in Paris to one of the most delicious Gyros I have ever eaten from Maison De Gyros. I love Greek food and don't get me started on tzatziki  sauce. It might be the best condiment ever created - think Greek yogurt + chopped up cucumber + lemon juice + dill + and Garlic. Amazing! Goes well on Greek Salads, veggies or Gyros.

But we are talking about Gyros right?

So what is a gyro you might ask. Well a gyros is basically a meat sandwich. Except the meat is roasted vertically on a spit. it is spit-Roasted! I only have to stop there for anyone who has walked down an alley laden with street-food vendors with plump mounds of meat slowly circulate next to a vertical cooker that slowly crisp and char the meat from the outside in as the fat sparks and bubbles; filling the air with roasted flesh as vendors shave it like fine truffle into luscious mounds around the base.

Meat-gasm

And that is only the meat! For the Gyros the vendor takes pita bread, slathers it with the aforementioned tzatziki sauce takes a generous helping of shaved meat then crowns it with crisp lettuce and fresh tomato.

At Maison De Gyros the chef combines the gyro with fries. This is another fine contender for the heart-attack-in-your-hand category because the crispy hot fries bake into the sandwich and add a whole new dimension of euphoria to this sandwich.

Heaven in a handbasket