Restaurants
The Greek Islands Restaurant
About The Greek Islands Restaurant
An independent Greek restaurant on the downtown side of the Hope Slough.
Hocking Avenue runs through the older part of the downtown, a block off the main commercial spines rather than on one of them, and number 45781 is where this restaurant is listed. That is a common enough position for an independent kitchen in Chilliwack. The downtown holds the highest concentration of them, across the blocks around Five Corners and in the District 1881 redevelopment on the former Chilliwack Cattle Sales site, but they are not arranged along a single restaurant row. They are distributed through a working commercial grid of more than 350 businesses, among banks, clinics, pharmacies and small independent retail. Anyone navigating by a mental map of the main streets can miss a whole side of the downtown that way.
Greek cooking has proved a durable independent restaurant category across British Columbia, and it tends to be run by people who own their rooms rather than franchise them. That second part is true of everything on these pages by construction, since chains are excluded from the directory, but it is worth noting where the category and the rule point the same way. What this particular kitchen serves is not part of the record, and no menu should be read into a name.
Chilliwack Proper accounts for about 31 per cent of the city's population, so a downtown room has a residential catchment as well as whatever daytime trade comes from the offices and from Chilliwack General Hospital over on Menholm Road. That combination generally shows up in when a place is busy rather than in what it does, which is the sort of thing a listing cannot tell you. Neither a phone number nor a website is published here, and for a restaurant that is a real limitation: there is no way to check hours, reserve a table or ask about takeaway before setting out. The address, at any rate, is exact, and the block is not hard to find.
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