{"id":151322,"date":"2025-09-18T04:51:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T04:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/151322\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T04:51:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T04:51:21","slug":"panathinaikos-spirit-at-melbournes-stalactites-the-greek-herald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/151322\/","title":{"rendered":"Panathinaikos spirit at Melbourne\u2019s Stalactites \u2013 The Greek Herald"},"content":{"rendered":"

Melbourne\u2019s iconic Greek restaurant Stalactites <\/a>teamed up with international basketball superstars to celebrate the arrival of Panathinaikos <\/a>BC in Australia. <\/p>\n

On Wednesday, September 17, players Nikos Rogkavopoulos and Jerian Grant stepped into the Stalactites kitchen, rolling up their sleeves to create a special limited-edition dish \u2014 the PAO Souvlaki.<\/p>\n

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The collaboration marked Panathinaikos\u2019 first-ever visit to Australia and their much-anticipated clash with Serbian powerhouse KK Partizan tonight. <\/p>\n

To honour the historic moment, Stalactites crafted a souvlaki that paid tribute to the Greens\u2019 iconic colour: their signature gyros, topped with crisp lettuce, tomato, onion and finished with a vibrant green tzatziki infused with mint, dill, and parsley.<\/p>\n

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The PAO Souvlaki will be made available exclusively at Stalactites until Sunday, September 21, with a portion of proceeds donated to Helping Hoops, a grassroots organisation providing free basketball programs for disadvantaged children across Melbourne.<\/p>\n

This is not the first time Stalactites has paired sport with food. The family-run institution famously collaborated with tennis star Stefanos Tsitsipas in 2019, serving up the popular \u201cTsitsipas Souvlaki\u201d during the Australian Open. <\/p>\n

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With Panathinaikos in town, the restaurant continued its tradition of fusing Melbourne\u2019s love of sport with its proud Greek heritage.<\/p>\n

Basketball royalty behind the counter and a new souvlaki on the menu gave Melbourne fans a unique taste of Greece both on and off the court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melbourne\u2019s iconic Greek restaurant Stalactites teamed up with international basketball superstars to celebrate the arrival of Panathinaikos BC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-151322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}