Fine dining Greek restaurant Estiatorio Milos debuts in Marina Bay Sands

THE latest of many imported F&B brands flocking to Singapore, Greek restaurant Estiatorio Milos wants local diners to know that Hellenic cuisine is not just mezze, moussaka or the cornerstone of a generic Mediterranean diet.

Founder Costas Spiliadis was born in Greece’s port city of Patras, and has spent the past 45 years pushing the “freshness and authenticity” mantra of his native cuisine through his restaurants in cities such as Montreal, New York, London, Los Cabos and Dubai. Now he is opening his first Asian outpost on Jul 25 in a joint venture with Marina Bay Sands, taking up the space vacated by Db Bistro and Oyster Bar.

The 77-year-old found his life’s mission when he was a university student in Montreal in the late 1970s. There, he was horrified that the only Greek food he could find was “souvlaki, gyros and moussaka”. For the young man who grew up being fed by a mother entrenched in native culture and food, he had “not a moment of epiphany but rather frustration seeing the food of my country completely misrepresented outside of Greece”.