Eat This: The Spanakopita at Taki’s Mad Greek in Ballard

Size does matter, at least when it comes to the spanakopita at Taki’s Mad Greek.

Nothing on the menu of understated Ballard gem Taki’s Mad Greek prepares diners for the enormous spanakopita, which arrives on a football-size plate, puffed up like Popeye’s flexed bicep.

Though I’d known about Taki’s for years—the Ditos family has been serving Seattle gyros and Greek salads in various locations for more than four decades now—I only became a regular after a family trip to Greece last year.

The first couple meals there, I settled in for the skordalia and souvlaki that reminded me of Thessaloniki. Then, one fateful evening, I tacked the

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