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Steve’s Family Restaurant A Special Destination

The light and spacious interior of Steve’s Family Restaurant at 43 South Main Street welcomes families, friends, business people, work crews, and students to take a seat, relax, and enjoy a satisfying meal from the extensive breakfast, lunch, or dinner menus.

The 3,000-square*foot restaurant, owned by father and son Spiro and Steven Rountos, opened in March 2004, and is open six days of the week, said Steven Rountos.

The main dining room, four-season sunroom, and counter area are decorated in soothing tones of aqua, cream, and natural wood. The counter offers seating for eight diners. More than 100 diners can be seated in either the main dining room or the sunroom, where cushioned chairs are pushed up to roomy tables, or customers can gaze out of the large front windows from the comfort of a high-backed booth. During the growing season, the gaze comes to rest on a bountiful display of sunflowers, peonies, roses, and other blooming annuals that border the entire north edge of the restaurant property. It is the green thumb of Spiro Rountos’ wife, Maria, that is responsible for the eye-catching garden, as well as for the lush houseplants that decorate the restaurant’s interior spaces.

Deciding between enticing selections can take a few minutes, but the helpful staff never rushes the decision. The Village Square Breakfast Special is popular with the morning crowd, said Mr Rountos. Five silver-dollar pancakes are served up hot with two eggs any style, and bacon. Eggs Benedict is also a crowd pleaser, he said. The classic breakfast meal consists of poached eggs with Canadian bacon on an English muffin, covered in a rich Hollandaise sauce. For customers watching their cholesterol, Steve’s Family Restaurant offers the Heart Smart breakfast of cholesterol-free real scrambled egg product, potatoes, and toast.

A broad variety of omelets, eggs, pancakes, breakfast sandwiches, French toast, homemade blueberry, corn, or coffee cake muffins, and crisp Belgium waffles round out the breakfast menu, which is available at any hour. Feel free to add one of several side dishes to any breakfast, including the special spiced Greek gyro meat.

The same gyro meat, or a spiced chicken variation of gyro meat, is served in a pita sandwich with lettuce, tomatoes, onion, and a cucumber tzatziki sauce at lunchtime. Select from several other grilled or cold sandwiches, or wraps, including the Buffalo chicken wrap, or a foot-long hotdog. The Rountos family makes its own tuna, egg, and chicken salad fillings for sandwiches.

Customers seeking a lighter meal will enjoy the Village Square salad of mixed greens, vegetables, raisins, Mandarin oranges, and walnuts, or the Greek salad topped with black olives, feta cheese, and stuffed grape leaves. The Greek salad can be ordered with additions of either gyro meat or marinated chicken breast for a heartier lunch.

The chill of a cold winter day can be easily offset with one of the homemade soups turned out by the kitchen at Steve’s Family Restaurant, available at lunch or dinner.

Evening customers have a large dinner menu of Italian, Greek, and American offerings from which to choose. The restaurant is known for the Greek specialties made by the Rountos. Greek moussaka is layers of ground meat and eggplant in a béchamel sauce, while Greek pastichio is seasoned beef and pasta baked in a béchamel sauce. Crispy, buttery layers of thin phyllo dough encase spinach and feta cheese in the Greek spinach pie.

Not to be forgotten are the steaks, lamb chops, pasta dishes, chicken entrees, and seafood choices that make up the rest of the dinner menu. All dinners include a choice of salad or soup, and some also include potato or vegetable.

Apple, cherry, pumpkin, and coconut custard pies are all the creations of the Rountos cooks, as is the worth-every-calorie cheesecake served with seasonal fruit topping. Rice pudding and tapioca pudding share the dessert menu.

Steve’s Family Restaurant holds a full liquor license. Cocktails, beer, wine, and international coffees are available.

Steve’s Family Restaurant, 43 South Main Street, in the Village Square plaza, is open Tuesday to Thursday from 7 am to 9 pm; Friday and Saturday from 7 am to 10 pm; and Sunday from 7 am to 5 pm. Closed Monday. Call 426-6328 for take out orders. Master Card and Visa accepted. No personal checks.