Easter weekend in the Greek community is a very special day. Greek Orthodox Easter is the biggest date on the calendar – it is where whole families, groups of friends, villages and towns come together to celebrate with a massive feast on Easter Sunday. For a London-based Greek restaurant like Hungry Donkey, we have served…
Join us at Hungry Donkey to celebrate Tsiknopempti, where meat is king, and you can enjoy delicious grilled meat platters in a carnival atmosphere! Tsiknopempti, meaning “smokey Thursday”, is part of the traditional Greek Carnival celebrations, marking the last meat feast before Greek Lent begins. This particular Thursday of each year provides the high point…
We are fast approaching one of the biggest celebrations on the Greek calendar, and one where there is a brilliant excuse to partake in some of the finest Greek cuisine. Tsiknopempti is on the 20th February this year and is the official beginning of Greek Mardi Gras and carnival. This is the day where Greek…
We might be biased but at Hungry Donkey we all believe there is nothing better than Greek Mezedes and Mezedakia in the whole world. Many people look at Greek Meze as similar to Tapas, and although there is the similarity of small plates, Mezedes provide more of a feeling, a way to come together as…
Is there anything better than a delicious Souvlaki? Maybe there is. That same delicious Souvlaki, delivered direct to your door. If you are having a lazy day and want to stay in your PJs, or you want to order something nice to eat on your way home from work, to arrive at the same time…
2020, a new year, a new decade, and a chance for us all to reinvent ourselves, or just to try out something new. Veganuary seems to be all the rage this year, and after a sustained growth in popularity since it was started in 2014 by the non-profit organisation ‘Veganuary’, there are now more people…
Hungry Donkey has been serving delicious and authentic Greek cuisine to the people of Spitalfields for some time, but we pride our service on not only delivering a high standard of service to our customers on a regular basis, but also that we offer an impeccable event space. The restaurant is the perfect place for…
Food is everything in Greece, and at Hungry Donkey we want to deliver the authentic experience to our customers. The idea is to explore different types of food, share plates with your loved ones, eat loads of tasty dishes, and to leave as part of the Hungry Donkey family! The recipes that we offer up…
For some reason Greek wine is never that easy to find on the supermarket shelves in the UK, but it really should be. One of the reasons this could be, is that with the number of regions and types of wine on offer from Greece, as well as a worry that the UK consumer might…
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