What is Souvlaki?
Souvláki means small skewer. It’s also Greece’s national street food, which Greeks have been eating in some form since, at least, the Bronze Age. In reality, the word souvlaki now means more than one thing. You can read all about it here.
What is Gyros?
When you hear the word gyros, you might picture a conical pita wrap filled with meat, tzatziki and fries. What gyros really refers to, though, is the kind of meat that you sometimes find inside it. Gyros is the vertical (or sometimes horizontal), rotating spit of seasoned meat fillets that is grilled and carved to order. You can read about it and its history here.
What is Souvla?
Soúvla commonly refers to the large skewer, or spit, which you see throughout Greece and Cyprus – but it actually means different things in both places and forms the bases of a wide variety of dishes, all with different names. You can read more to learn all about them.