Restaurant
Diethnes Greek Restaurant
336 Pitt St, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia
Find Diethnes Greek Restaurant
336 Pitt St, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia
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Book NowAbout Diethnes Greek Restaurant
Step through a modest Pitt Street door into a retro basement dining room serving unpretentious Greek comfort food. Long-time regulars view Diethnes as a Sydney institution, ignoring modern dining trends in favor of home-style cooking straight from a Greek grandmother's kitchen. Tables fill with sharing plates of taramasalata and pita, followed by meaty cabbage rolls, grilled octopus, and rich moussaka, finished off with a strong Greek coffee.
- Basement institution: An unassuming single door on Pitt Street leads downstairs into a retro Mediterranean dining room that has welcomed diners for decades.
- No-frills home cooking: Classic home-style staples take priority, from rich moussaka and meaty cabbage rolls to mezze plates and Greek coffee.
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Most popular items
Traditional Greek home-style staples served in our historic basement setting
Mousaka
Mousaka
Michael C cabbage rolls
The cabbage rolls were pleasingly meaty
Douglas Aberdeen veal scallopmi
The veal scallopmi’s sauce with the pita bread was to die for.
Gillian Baez Grilled octopus
Grilled octopus
Michael C
Before you head over
Practical guidance on finding the entrance, course pacing, and walk-in timing.
Watch for the basement doorway
Look out for a discrete single door leading down to the basement dining room along Pitt Street, as the entrance can be easy to walk straight past.
Request dishes in courses when sharing
If you are ordering appetisers like taramasalata alongside hearty mains like moussaka to share, specify staggered course timing when ordering so hot dishes do not arrive together.
Visit midweek for immediate seating
For quick walk-in dining or low-friction dinner options without the need for advance reservations, midweek evenings like Tuesday offer plenty of open tables.
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