Top 10 dishes to try at Motorship

Our gyros is not fast food. The meat is prepared in the morning, marinated with Greek herbs and slowly roasted on the rotisserie for hours. It is served with fries, tzatziki, fresh tomatoes and onion: on a plate, not in foil. At Motorship, gyros is treated with respect.

The calamari arrives whole, stuffed with creamy feta and baked until it gets a golden crust. Creamy inside, delicate outside. It brings sea and mountain together: Aegean calamari and feta from Thassos, which makes it unique. You will not find it quite like this anywhere else.

The octopus is cooked slowly, very slowly, until the meat becomes silky. Then it goes on the olive-charcoal grill for those perfect marks and smoky aroma. It is served with Thassos olive oil and a touch of balsamic vinegar. Absolute simplicity, absolute flavour.

Fresh mussels in an aromatic white wine, garlic and parsley sauce. They arrive in a deep bowl, and the unwritten rule is simple: do not leave a drop of sauce. Take warm bread, tear it and clean the bowl. That is how mussels are eaten in Greece.

Sea bream is the queen of the Greek grill. At Motorship, you choose it from the fresh fish display. We weigh it together, and in 20 minutes it is on your table: grilled over fire, with fresh lemon and olive oil. Nothing else. It needs nothing else.

Three cheeses: feta, kefalotyri and mozzarella, with tomatoes, roasted peppers and a touch of heat, all baked until golden bubbles appear. It is served hot, straight from the dish. It is the starter that makes the meal begin with a wow.

Prawns baked with tomatoes and melted feta in the traditional saganaki pan. It is a perfect kind of fusion: sea, meaning the prawns, with mountain, meaning the feta, tied together by a tomato sauce with aromatic herbs that makes you want a second piece of bread.

The meat is oven-baked so slowly that it falls from the bone by itself. It is served with potatoes and seasonal vegetables, all cooked in the same juices. It is the celebration dish, the one Greeks make for Easter. At Motorship, you can have it every evening.

The only dessert on the Motorship menu, and not by chance. Portokalopita is the traditional Greek dessert: thin filo sheets soaked in orange syrup, served warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. The warm-cold, sweet-citrus contrast is perfect.