{"id":73090,"date":"2025-12-05T23:19:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T23:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/73090\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T23:19:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T23:19:33","slug":"tonys-pizza-owner-bringing-classic-greek-food-to-downtown-st-pete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/73090\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony\u2019s Pizza Owner Bringing Classic Greek Food to Downtown St. Pete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The building at 653 Central Avenue, formerly occupied by DalMoros Fresh Pasta To Go, will soon be the home of your new go-to for authentic Greek food. Central Gyros, the restaurant opening there next year, is a brand-new concept from Vjollca Dervishi, who also owns Tony\u2019s Pizza.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to be authentic Greek food,\u201d Dervishi told What Now on Friday. \u201cSouvlaki, Greek Salad, gyros, tzatziki, and desserts like baklava.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Central Gyros team is set to take over the space in January with the hopes of an opening in February, Dervishi said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new restaurant will include towers of lamb, chicken, and pork slow-roasting on vertical rotisseries before being carved to order for gyros, shawarma, and kebabs,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/stpeterising.com\/home\/central-gyro-bring-authentic-greek-food-to-central-avenue-next-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">coverage<\/a> by St. Pete Rising, describing Central Gyros\u2019 food offerings. \u201cDiners will be able to customize pitas and rice platters with their choice of meats, toppings, and house-made sauces, including a classic tzatziki.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Plans are still being worked out for how to best utilize the narrow space, but some seating is expected inside, along with several tables outside.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re also going to hopefully do free delivery for Downtown St. Pete,\u201d Dervishi said. \u201cAnd we\u2019ll have a catering menu too.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The building at 653 Central Avenue, formerly occupied by DalMoros Fresh Pasta To Go, will soon be the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-73090","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\/73090","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=73090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}