# @thekansascitystar on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CqD3uXYJ5NK
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/18810691-thekansascitystar-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-03-21T18:08:40.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Kansas City Star (@thekansascitystar) — https://gondola.cc/thekansascitystar

## Caption

Let’s get this out of the way right now: It’s not a “jye-ro,” rhymes with Cairo. It’s not a “hero” — that’s a sub sandwich. A gyro is pronounced “year-oh.”

“Like the year of 2023,” explains DeeDee Jovaras, who as co-owner of Mr. Gyro’s Greek Food & Pastry with her husband, Chris, keeps that little lesson handy.

Regardless of how you say it, at this restaurant, the gyro ($8.25) is a delicious bestseller, with warm, pillowy pita bread wrapped like a taco around savory slices of meat, along with tomatoes, onions and tzatziki sauce (a yummy blend of sour cream, cucumber and secret seasonings).

Yet, Star enterprise editor Sharon Hoffmann is here to tell you to order something else. She’s been going to Mr. Gyro’s for decades, and has found that when she orders that sandwich, she’ll eat it all at once. It quickly becomes a distant memory.

Instead, Sharon will spend a little more and order the Gyro Plate ($10.95) and a large Greek salad ($9), and get two, maybe three meals out of it. Plus, she gets the joy of creation.

Read more about the family-owned @mrgyrosgreekkc at the link in our bio.

#KansasCity #KCRestaurants #KCFoodies #JohnsonCounty #OverlandParkKS

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overlandparkks, johnsoncounty, kcrestaurants, kcfoodies, kansascity

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