EXY is the Greek word for six. It’s also the name of a new restaurant opening this month on the corner of Sixth Avenue and F Street. And no, it won’t be another Italian place, but a Greek restaurant.
Just across the street from The Ivy Hotel, EXY will be introducing chic Greek cuisine to San Diego.
The owner of EXY is George Katakalidis, who also founded Daphne’s Greek Cafe. In the early 1990s, he realized the opportunity for high-quality Greek cuisine at reasonable prices and featured an updated version of his mother’s family recipes in the first Daphne’s Greek Café in San Diego.
Currently there are nearly 100 restaurant locations throughout Arizona, California and Colorado.
The contemporary and more casual Daphne’s Greek Café will get a chic brother in EXY.
Chalise Zolezzi, marketing and public relations manager for Daphne’s, describes EXY as a sophisticated yet informal Greek restaurant and lounge.
“The restaurant features leading-edge Greek cuisine, premium cocktails and an extensive wine collection,” Zolezzi said. “The lounge at EXY is the perfect place to meet, eat, drink and be EXY.”
The menu includes dishes like Grilled Octopus, which is nested on a bed of arugula, orange and red onion salad, or the Cretan Bread Salad, a mixture of aged French feta, herbed croutons, tomatoes, baby greens, sweet onions, basil and balsamic vinaigrette. And of course, any Greek restaurant has to have a moussaka dish. EXY serves a Moussaka Ravioli with yogurt pasta filled with roasted lamb and a vegetable medley, topped with an ouzo béchamel.
For dessert, the warm chocolate orange espresso rice cream Rizo-Galo Brulee is served warm from the ovens.
EXY will open in mid-December with a number of VIP preview parties. “It is very chic, yet comfortable,” Zolezzi said.
For more information on EXY, visit www.exysandiego.com.