Joliet's Top Ethnic Food Festival? Lamb, Greek Chicken, Gyro, Saganaki
JOLIET — Now that the Taste of Joliet is over, area residents may be bummed that all of those delicious food options are gone for an entire year. Well, guess what, there’s no reason to be sad because Saturday and Sunday mark the annual All Saints Greek Orthodox Church, 102 N. Broadway St.
Talk about an All-Star lineup of ethnic food: Gyro. Pork Souvlaki. Greek Chicken. Lamb. Pastitsio. Cheese and Spinach Tiropeta. Saganaki. Loukoumades.
A host of different Greek pastries.
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“There is no admission to get into the festival,” emphasized festival chairman Tom Thiakos. “I think we should have a real good turnout this year.”
Saturday’s event is noon to 9 p.m. and Sunday’s festivities are noon to 8 p.m.
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It is free — that’s right, FREE to attend the All Saints Summer Greek Fest.
People are encouraged to park along Joliet’s Bluff Street. There is also parking at the Bicentennial Park, plus a free shuttle service to and from the church grounds where the festival is held.
The church will offer two shuttle vans, provided courtesy of D’Arcy Motors, to bring guests back and forth from 102 N. Broadway Street.
This marks the second year in a row that All Saints has held the annual Summer Greek Fest at its church property on the city’s near west side.
Over the years, it’s been held along Black Road and on Stryker Avenue.
This weekend’s food lineup promises to be one of All Saints’ best ever, Thiakos said.
There will be two lambs on a spit.
Lamb and saganaki are two of the new food selections for this weekend’s food lineup.
“We’ve got a good menu,” Thiakos assured Joliet Patch. “With lamb and saganaki, we expect a lot of the Joliet community will come out, and we expect big numbers because of the lamb.”
And a long-time Joliet favorite, The Dock, will be at All-Saints serving at least 10 different flavors of its margaritas.
This year, The Dock and its popular margarita flight trucks relocated to Mokena after a successful five-year run at the Joliet Park District’s Inwood Recreation Center.
For beer drinkers, there will be domestics such as Coors Light and Miller Lite as well as Mythos Beer, an authentic Greek beer.
Besides beer and margarita selections from The Dock, All-Saints will sell pop, water, wine. There will be face painting activities for children from 3 to 5 p.m. both days, free of charge.
There will be a DJ playing Greek and American music.
Thiakos told Joliet Patch that last year’s event, back on the church’s property at 102 North Broadway Street, drew at least 1,500 people on both days.
“We expect a bigger crowd. We had a lot of positive feedback having it on the church grounds,” Thiakos said.
One of the most important aspects of All Saints Summer Greek Fest: you do not need to be a church member to attend.
The event is geared for the entire crowd of Joliet, emphasized Thiakos.
“It’s pretty 50-50 between Greek and non-Greek,” he said. “It’s just neighbors, family and friends.”
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