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Gus’s Mythos Pizza now open on Western Drive, serving Greek-style


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Gus Kantartzis and summer wait staff helper Laural Plapp stay busy taking orders and serving Greek food, most of which is prepared by Gus’s wife, Athina, in the recently opened Mythos Pizza & Greek Specialties restaurant at 3900 E. Western Drive in Cottonwood.
6/19/2012 1:05:00 PM

 By Philip Wright

 COTTONWOOD – Gus Kantartzis and his wife, Athina, opened Gus’s Mythos Pizza & Greek Specialties restaurant April 1 at 3900 E. Western Drive in Cottonwood.

In addition to a good selection of pizzas, including Greek style, the restaurant offers Greek gyros, Greek dinners and other Greek specialties. The Greek dinner menu offers moussaka, a Greek specialty with layers of eggplant, potatoes and ground beef, all topped off with béchamel sauce.

Lamb and chicken souvlaki cooked on skewers and a gyros meat plate with slices of beef and lamb round out the specialty dinners.

The Mythos Plate includes a combination of moussaka, gyro meat and spanakopita, all served with lemon-roasted potatoes, rice and Greek salad.

Gus’s also serves gourmet calzones as well as burgers, traditional sandwiches, salads and side orders.

Menu prices run from $6.95 to $16.95 for pizzas, from $5.25 to $6.99 for sandwiches and $12.95 for the Mythos Plate. All Greek dinners are $8.95 and gyros and calzones are $5.95.

This isn’t Gus’s first venture into the restaurant business.

“All my life I was up in Alaska,” he said. He ran a restaurant in the tourist town of Nikiski on the North Kenai Peninsula. He also ran a restaurant in Anchorage.

Athina does most of the cooking. “She makes all of the pastries and Greek specialties,” Gus said.

Hours are 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, and 1 to 8 p.m. on Sunday.


 

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