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Dish of the Week: Avgolemono soup
Where: Greek Deli
The line outside of Greek Deli is always ridiculously long. And with good reason. The food is delicious. The gyros are excellent with a lovely dilled tzatziki sauce. The daily specials like meatballs, meatloaf, and roasted pork melt in your mouth, and are large enough for two meals. All these tasty standbys make it hard to work your way to other items on the menu. So it took a while to work toward getting the avgolemono soup.

This classic Greek soup is luscious with a thick, velvety texture that seems rich with cream, but actually contains no cream. The chicken soup is instead flavored with lemon juice and egg with orzo and shreds of tender chicken. The eggs are added to cooled stock to prevent curdling, yielding a homogenized mixture instead of egg drop soup. If you do head to Greek Deli looking for it, be sure to get there early – it sells out quick.