The Loukaniko sausage platter is a popular breakfast dish at Chef Zorba’s in Denver. (Photo by William Porter)
I have been a fan of for several years now, ever since a friend who once lived nearby sang the virtues of this breakfast-lunch-dinner Greek restaurant at 2626 E. 12th Ave.
The restaurant has been a staple in the Congress Park neighborhood since 1979, and in 2000 it was purchased by the Tsiopelas family, who expanded and renovated it. (Part of the sunny interiors charm are the photographs of Greek villages, all whitewashed walls, cobalt-blue skies and lots of roaming cats.
Chef Zorba’s does traditional Greek dinners — pastitsio, moussaka and groaning appetizer platters — but breakfast there is my siren song. In classic Greek-diner fashion, breakfast is served all day long.
Recently, after a half-dozen years of eating there, I was exposed to something new: Loukanika sausage, a popular pork sausage in Greece that is seasoned with a bit of zested orange rind. It’s terrific, moist and flavorful and just different. I got mine with eggs over easy and Zorba’s excellent hashers. Pita on the side, of course, with a little tub of tzatziki — all served up by a dark-haired waitress with a friendly smile.
It was a Denver breakfast of Olympian flavor, thousands of miles across Homer’s wine-dark sea.
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