Finding the corner

Greek food cooked over charcoal. The menu runs to gyros carved off the spit, pork and chicken skewers, kontosouvli, lamb chops, grilled chicken and a mixed grill for two, with Greek salad, tzatziki, saganaki and feta alongside. The sign outside says Greek Traditional Food, and that is the whole of it.

No. It is a charcoal grill house and the menu holds no fish, no seafood and no oven dishes at all — no moussaka, no baked lamb, no pasta. Listings elsewhere that print octopus or lamb kleftiko for this address are wrong. Everything served here comes off the grill or the spit.

On Rruga Kaonet in Spile, the seafront quarter of Himarë, about 90 metres back from Spile beach on the Albanian Riviera. It is a corner site — which is what the name says — and it is a few minutes on foot from anywhere central in the town.

It opens daily. Published closing times disagree with one another across the listing sites, so no specific hours are printed here rather than print a time that turns out to be wrong. Coastal Himarë is seasonal, so it is worth checking before travelling out of summer.

It scores 4.6 out of 5 on Google, and holds the same 4.6 on TripAdvisor, where it sits among the highest-rated restaurants in Himarë. Reviewers return to the same things: the size of the portions, the charcoal, the welcome, and what the meal costs against the seafront around it.

It is Greek — ΤΟ ΣΤΈΚΙ στη Γωνία, the hangout on the corner. Himarë has a long-established Greek-speaking community and the restaurant signs itself in Greek letters in brass above its door, with the Latin spelling used on its menu and its listings.