Best Greek in Astoria
The 10 best Greek restaurants in Astoria, Queens for 2026: whole grilled fish tavernas, meze on Ditmars, and old-school institutions, all verified open.
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- 1Ditmars-Steinway · $$ · Astoria-Ditmars Blvd (N W) · 36-01 Ditmars Blvd, Astoria, Queens, NY 11105
Also No. 2 on Best of Astoria → · No. 9 on Best Seafood in NYC →
The Ditmars taverna that put Astoria whole fish on the citywide map, with a grill that runs nonstop and a room that has been packed for decades. You come for fish pulled off the flame with lemon potatoes on the side, and you leave with free galaktoboureko whether you asked for it or not.
It takes the top spot because no Greek restaurant in Queens has stayed this good under this much pressure for this long, with Michelin and every food publication in the city on record agreeing.
Order Whole grilled fish with lemon potatoes
Get there before 6pm on weekends or expect to wait on the sidewalk; the line moves but it is real.
@tavernakyclades ↗Taverna Kyclades
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- 2Astoria Park · $$ · Astoria-Ditmars Blvd (N W) · 19-06 Ditmars Blvd, Astoria, Queens, NY 11105
A meze house across from Astoria Park where the menu digs deeper than the standard taverna lineup, pulling in Santorini fava, shrimp kataifi, and zucchini croquettes. The patio catches park air in summer and the dining room does the job the rest of the year.
Number two because The Infatuation is right that if this food were downtown there would be a line every single night, and in Astoria you can still just walk in.
Order Grilled octopus and the Santorini fava
Build the meal from the meze list instead of defaulting to entrees, and grab a patio table when it is warm.
- 3Astoria · $$ · Astoria-Ditmars Blvd (N W) · 26-02 23rd Ave, Astoria, Queens, NY 11105
A small corner taverna on 23rd Ave that cooks like somebody's Greek grandmother with a grudge against mediocrity. Michelin gave it Bib Gourmand recognition for exactly the kind of honest, intense home cooking the fancier rooms cannot fake.
Third because pound for pound this is the most flavor per dollar on the list, even if the room is the plainest.
Order Tirokafteri with fried eggplant and zucchini
Start with the tirokafteri and the fried eggplant and zucchini, then let the grill handle the rest.
- 4Astoria · $$ · Astoria Blvd (N W) · 24-02 31st St, Astoria, Queens, NY 11102
Also No. 10 on Best Seafood in NYC →
The no-menu fish house near Astoria Park that has been doing it the same way since the 1980s: walk to the case, point at your fish, sit down. It opens at 4pm, closes Tuesdays, and does not care what you think a restaurant should look like.
Fourth because this is the last of the true old-guard fish tavernas, and the smoky whole fish still justifies every quirk of the operation.
Order Whole grilled sea bass from the case
It runs Wednesday through Monday from 4pm, so plan around the Tuesday closure and go early for first pick of the case.
- 5Astoria · $$ · Astoria-Ditmars Blvd (N W) · 28-13 23rd Ave, Astoria, Queens, NY 11105
Also No. 5 on Best of Astoria →
A 23rd Ave standby since 1990 with one of the deepest whole grilled fish selections in the neighborhood. It is the reliable center of the Astoria fish taverna universe, where regulars outnumber first-timers most nights.
Fifth because when The Infatuation calls this some of the best Greek food in Astoria, they are describing thirty-five years of not slipping.
Order Whole grilled porgy with spanakopita to start
Ask what came in that day instead of defaulting to branzino; the porgy is usually the move.
@tellystaverna ↗Telly's Taverna
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- 6Astoria · $$ · Broadway (N W) · 31-14 Broadway, Astoria, Queens, NY 11106
The Broadway room built for the big Greek dinner: two dining rooms, carafes of wine, and a fish display case up front doing the menu's heavy lifting. The kitchen runs noon to midnight every day, which nobody else on this list can say.
Sixth because it is the best group play in Astoria Greek, holding a 4.6 on Yelp and a top-three Tripadvisor rank while feeding tables of twelve.
Order Whole grilled branzino and lamb chops
Come with at least four people, order from the display case up front, and add lamb chops for whoever is not eating fish.
- 7Astoria · $$ · Astoria-Ditmars Blvd (N W) · 29-09 23rd Ave, Astoria, Queens, NY 11105
The working man's Greek restaurant on 23rd Ave, an old-school institution where the pastitsio and octopus carry the place and nothing else pretends to. Service is brisk, the room gets loud, and the regulars would riot if any of it changed.
Seventh because the food outperforms the experience by a mile, and that trade has kept it in the top five of nearly 600 Astoria restaurants on Tripadvisor.
Order Pastitsio and grilled octopus
Go on a weeknight, skip the small talk, and order the pastitsio even if you came for fish.
- 8Ditmars-Steinway · $$ · 45-07 Ditmars Blvd, Astoria, Queens, NY 11105
A traditional taverna on the far end of Ditmars where chef and owner Kostas Avlonitis cooks the lamb side of the Greek canon. The garden patio out back is one of the neighborhood's quieter places to eat well.
Eighth because it is the lamb specialist in a neighborhood obsessed with fish, and The Infatuation's call of 'exceptional lamb' holds up on the plate.
Order Roast lamb
Ask for the garden when the weather cooperates and build the table around the roast lamb.
- 9Astoria · $$$ · 30 Av (N W) · 32-07 30th Ave, Astoria, Queens, NY 11102
The dress-up option in Astoria Greek, a modern estiatorio on 30th Ave with a tighter, more composed menu than the tavernas around it. Portions run smaller and prices run higher, and that is the point.
Ninth because when you want Greek that feels like an occasion without leaving the neighborhood this is the room, even if consistency does not always match the ambition.
Order Grilled octopus and the whole fagri
Treat it as the anniversary pick rather than the Tuesday fish run, and reserve ahead on weekends.
- 10Astoria · $$ · 30 Av (N W) · 34-01 30th Ave, Astoria, Queens, NY 11103
A 30th Ave psistaria that plays both sides: traditional grilled fish and lamb chops at dinner, and the neighborhood's only real Greek brunch by day. The baklava pancakes are the dish everyone talks about, and they are not wrong.
Tenth because nobody else in Astoria stretches Greek cooking into brunch this convincingly, and the dinner menu still holds its own.
Order Baklava pancakes at brunch
Come on a weekend morning for the baklava pancakes; dinner is a different, more traditional operation.