Mezes

And so the friendliness of Turkish strangers accompanied me for the three weeks I spent in Istanbul and along Turkey's Aegean coast, where I found a wealth of antiquities, architecture and art with few parallels in the Mediterranean, not to mention impossibly blue seas and feasts of small plates known as mezes at non-euro prices. ❋ The Huffington Post News Editors (2012)

Our partners at the Aegean Pearl prepared an extraordinary celebration -- with beautiful decorations (including a vast array of blue and white balloons and flowers), tables full of traditional Greek and Cretan mezes (appetizers), newly-invented drinks (blue ouzo and raki, special blue water), and above all, a special cake. ❋ Alex Pattakos (2011)

At the taverns, they smoke through dinner, eating mezes and drinking raki with one hand and stabbing ashtrays with the other; women eschew vanity for long drags of Parliaments; storekeepers flick ashes straight onto their rugs. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Le Grec, an extremely successful Greek tapas (or mezes) restaurant started on Commercial Dr. They decided to expand and move to the larger area in Kits, 2041 W. 4th Ave. ❋ Unknown (2009)

While we're bandying foodways should we chuck in the fantastic mezes that feature heavily in diets from Greece right round the middle eastern end of the med? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Balkanika in the Theater District offers a mix of Mediterranean cuisine and a taste of the Balkan region, with its wide variety of mezes and roasted vegetables. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Like some of Mr. Andonopulo's previous ventures, Balkanika includes a small market, including coffee, lentils, rice, dried fruits and nuts as well as some of the vegetable and mezes at the front of the shop, sold as take-out. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Ramsay de Give for The Wall Street Journal Like some of Mr. Andonopulo's previous ventures, Balkanika includes a small market that sells coffee, lentils, rice, dried fruits and nuts, as well as some of the vegetable and mezes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Jesus goes into a restaurant, orders mezes, eats them, orders more mezes, eats them, and keeps on ordering until the restaurant runs out of food. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The cafe menu offers both tacos and Middle Eastern mezes. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Greece and other countries surrounding the Mediterranean have mezes. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Having been to many such events, I knew that munchies canapés, hors d'oeuvres, mezes were called for. ❋ Unknown (2005)