{"id":52805,"date":"2025-11-19T15:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T15:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/52805\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T15:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T15:59:08","slug":"central-gyro-to-bring-authentic-greek-food-to-central-avenue-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/52805\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Gyro to bring authentic Greek food to Central Avenue next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Sourcing ingredients directly from Greece, Dervishi also plans to serve souvlaki (grilled meat skewers) and loukaniko, a traditional pork sausage seasoned with citrus zest, fennel, and oregano.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">House-made desserts, including baklava, will complement the sweets she\u2019s already known for at Tony\u2019s, where tiramisu and cheesecake are prepared daily.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cAt Central Gyro, there will a big display by the counter, so people are going to see us making their food right in front of them,\u201d Dervishi added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The restaurant\u2019s narrow footprint will include limited indoor bar seating, one or two outdoor tables along Central Avenue, and a covered back patio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Central Gyro expects to operate daily from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. or midnight. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Final design work, permitting, and branding are now underway, and Dervishi hopes to open by February 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Pickup, delivery, and catering will be available after the restaurant makes its official debut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sourcing ingredients directly from Greece, Dervishi also plans to serve souvlaki (grilled meat skewers) and loukaniko, a traditional&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-52805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}