{"id":294690,"date":"2007-12-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/eat-drink-and-be-exy-at-new-greek-restaurant\/"},"modified":"2007-12-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T08:00:00","slug":"eat-drink-and-be-exy-at-new-greek-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/eat-drink-and-be-exy-at-new-greek-restaurant\/","title":{"rendered":"Eat, drink and be EXY at new Greek restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EXY is the Greek word for six. It&#8217;s also the name of a new restaurant opening this month on the corner of Sixth Avenue and F Street. And no, it won&#8217;t be another Italian place, but a Greek restaurant. <br \/>Just across the street from The Ivy Hotel, EXY will be introducing chic Greek cuisine to San Diego. <br \/>The owner of EXY is George Katakalidis, who also founded Daphne&#8217;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&#8217;s family recipes in the first Daphne&#8217;s Greek Caf\u00e9 in San Diego. <br \/>Currently there are nearly 100 restaurant locations throughout Arizona, California and Colorado. <br \/>The contemporary and more casual Daphne&#8217;s Greek Caf\u00e9 will get a chic brother in EXY. <br \/>Chalise Zolezzi, marketing and public relations manager for Daphne&#8217;s, describes EXY as a sophisticated yet informal Greek restaurant and lounge. <br \/>&#8220;The restaurant features leading-edge Greek cuisine, premium cocktails and an extensive wine collection,&#8221; Zolezzi said. &#8220;The lounge at EXY is the perfect place to meet, eat, drink and be EXY.&#8221; <br \/>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 b\u00e9chamel. <br \/>For dessert, the warm chocolate orange espresso rice cream Rizo-Galo Brulee is served warm from the ovens. <br \/>EXY will open in mid-December with a number of VIP preview parties. &#8220;It is very chic, yet comfortable,&#8221; Zolezzi said. <br \/>For more information on EXY, visit www.exysandiego.com.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXY is the Greek word for six. It&#8217;s also the name of a new restaurant opening this month on the corner of Sixth Avenue and F Street. And no, it won&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"Eat, drink and be EXY at new Greek restaurant","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sdnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}