Grecian Festival

This was my first year at the Greek Festival and I must say it was pretty cool. I didn’t get to try much of the food, stupid stomach, but everything smelled and looked delicious. I enjoyed the music and dancing and hope to return next year to try the food :)

Parking sucks. Overall the festival was pretty fun. Had the lamb sliders and they were delicious… can’t say the same for the Ouzo! Definitely an acquired taste.

Love coming every year as the Grecian Festival seems to be my kick off for my season «Fall!
Volunteers are sweet & friendly & inviting! It doesn’t cost on Friday if you get there before 5, so keep that in mind for next year.
Scrumptious & divine Greek food awaits you my Greek Gods & Goddess’s! The food pricing is just fine, this helps support their Church you silly cheap skate fools.
Get there early otherwise the lines will be long and check out all the speciality items they offer inside the main hall! A lot of great paintings & unique finds!
Entertainment in the evenings & will be quite busy but definitely worth checking out! ~~OPA!

I attend Albuquerque’s Grecian Festival annually. It’s always a good time – pretty expensive for the food – but fun and for a worthy entity. Good food, drink, dancing, entertainment, and Greek goods are the main attractions of this family friendly event.

What a fun event! The volunteers were so friendly and helpful. Lots of food that was wonderful.
The homemade cookies and pastries were amazing.
Make sure you take the time to check out the cooking demos, Greek lessons, dancing, shopping and EATING!

I’ll apologize before hand but I compare everything to NY. With that said I was disappointed that there was an entrance fee. The food was pricey for the portions. I felt like i was eating church food and paying twice as much, just because it is a «festival.»
On the other hand, the dancing in the middle of the place was pretty cute. I actually sat down and enjoyed it. But back to the food, it was good but I feel like I could walk into a Greek spot and get the same quality for a bigger quantity. The same goes for the desserts. I’m just saying.
But yea, besides the dancing there wasn’t an really entertainment going on. Oh I mean if your shorter than 3 feet you would definitely have a blast since they have these huge inflated castles to play in. I guess next year ill have another rating for this place since I’ll be bring my little one here.

I have gone to other Greek festivals in other cities and this is by far the biggest/​most elaborate Greek festival I have seen. My mother is 100% Greek and I am pretty familiar with these fests and what they usually entail and I grew up with Greek food almost every week. As said before the admission fee is a little steep. I mean spending 10 $ before my husband and I walk in is pretty pricey…
The Food: really good lamb which surprised me. You would expect small portions and dried out meat at big events like this but it was super tasty and moist. The combo plate was also great and they gave a pretty hefty portion. The dessert we got, loukoumades are one of my favorite Greek desserts. like little airy donut holes in a honey syrup with powdered sugar and they did them so well! They also did their Greek coffee well for such a massive setting as it is normally prepared in small batches.
The vendors: I love the Greek marketplace inside. Great that you can buy and take home the baked goods they sell as well. I tried on some really nice jewelry from a Greek jewelry store that was selling there. Too bad the Bracelet was $ 4,000! Who is gonna spend that kinda money there?
The drinks: we only got greek drinks… the mythos bottled beer was pretty good and I have never seen it before which was cool. They had 4 greek wines to choose from and we had a pretty good dry, red wine. The only thing missing was ouzo! I’m guessing they just don’t want people getting too crazy taking shots of ouzo, but I felt this was something that would have made the festival even better. Other Greek fests I have been to had like 4 $ shots of ouzo… Oh well.
Entertainment: great live music and cool to see so many people dancing as well as the church dancers in the Greek costumes. I’m sure if I was a kid I also would have enjoyed the numerous bouncy tents and slides
You can tell this church has a really devoted community membership which is nice to see.

This festival was pretty tame to be going by that name. A festival to me suggests lots of different activities, vendors, a long stretch of street overtaken if it’s outdoors, and UNLESS IT COVERS EVERYTHING YOU CONSUME INSIDE, NO COVER FEE.
Yep. This festival costs $ 5 a person to get in, but then you have to pay again at all the food booths and little trinket concessions. This system doesn’t make sense to me. They are hitting you twice over the head and apparently nobody seems to mind. Except me. Plus, I was already bothered when I saw that they were offering discount entrance to paramedics, cops, firemen, and some other public servant, but not to teachers. A real slap in the face if you ask me.
On to the festival though. I did enjoy the Greek music and the large groups of people attempting to dance what I can only assume was Greek dancing (only to fail miserably). I liked that they had beer on tap, including Sam Adams Oktoberfest — which I hear is good — and offered bottles of Mythos. The food was pretty good for what you’d expect at a festival (see New Mexico State Fair) and the prices weren’t entirely outrageous.
In the end, I felt that for being a festival it could’ve offered a lot more variety, more booths, more entertainment and could’ve done without that ridiculous entrance fee.