Everything You Can Eat at the Panegyri Greek Festival in Finneytown This Weekend

Panegyri is back with a full-scale, Opa!-inducing event this weekend.

From June 28-30, the Holy Trinity-St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Finneytown is hosting its annual celebration of Greek culture, complete with exhibits, cooking demos, live music and lots and lots of folk dancing.

And food. Can't forget the food.

The full list of favorite eats is back this year.

Outside, enjoy:

• Dinners such as Oregano Chicken, Moussaka, Pastitsio and Tiropita, which all come with rice pilaf, Greek-style green beans, Greek salad and bread
  
• Greek salad
• Spanakopita
• Gyros
• Greek pizza
• Souvlaki
• Skyline chili, which was created by Greek immigrants
• Yia Yia's Mezethakia aka appetizers featuring Greek meatballs, dolmathes (stuffed grape leaves), feta cheese, olives and saganaki (flaming cheese)
• Baklava sundaes
• Loukoumathes

Get in line in the main hall to take home a box of baklava, kataifi, kourambiethes and melomakarona handmade by church patrons. Or post up at the Kafenion for some Greek-style coffee.

And don’t skip the taverna, with Greek wine by the glass and bottle and Greek beer.

Panegyri has been voted as Cincinnati's favorite summer church festival by CityBeat readers in the Best Of Cincinnati issue for a reason — it's very, very fun.

The fest takes place June 28 from 5-11 p.m., June 29 from 3-11 p.m., and June 30 from 1-8 p.m. Holy Trinity-St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, 7000 Winton Road, Finneytown, panegyri.com.