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Greek restaurant coming to Gainesville
Nicolaou and Griffin opening Alpha Gyro Grill this summer
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Christos Nicolaou, pictured on Friday, June 23, is opening Alpha Gyro Grill on Jesse Jewell Parkway with his wife, Sarah Griffin, and an Atlanta-based business partner. Nicolaou came to Georgia as a student in 1982 after a stint in the Greek navy.
With their lives in Greece behind them, Christos Nicolaou and Sarah Griffin are bringing their culture to Gainesville through a little restaurant at the corner of Jesse Jewell and E E Butler. The husband and wife, he from Greece and she from Gillsville, are working to open Alpha Gyro Grill, a Greek restaurant selling gyros and traditional dishes of grilled meats and vegetarian specials based on a lifetime of experience in the Mediterranean country. Some of the dishes are a blend of Turkish and Greek cooking, others just have Turkish names (like moussaka), Nicolaou said.