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A little hummus, tzaziki sauce and Mythos beer at The Fat Greek during the 2008 WSOP. (Bodog Beat Image)

To start this post off we're gonna refer you to the last "WSOP Food Coma" post we did in which we mentioned a certain adage that works well for finding good Mexican food, "The older the strip mall, the better the Mexican food." Well, this also apparently applies to Greek food as well.

Just a click down the road from the Rio is a strip mall with a Hollywood Video, a generic Mexican place name Ricardo's (does not fit the adage because it is a satellite of the strip mall) and about 14 smoke shops. In that strip mall is a little store front that The Fat Greek calls home. An inauspicious space with a counter across the back, baby blue walls with white trim, several Greek flags and a collection of small tables with plastic tablecloths. One can almost smell the Windex.

The restaurant was not very full but seemed as though it was as busy as it gets. We were greeted and sat by woman with Middle Eastern accent (it was probably Greek, but our mastery of accents is not quite that throrough, and we'd hate to say that if, in fact, she's Turkish or something) and proceeded to order hummus and tzaziki sauce with warm pita to start and a Mythos beer to wash it down.

A quick perusal of the menu provided us with an easy decision. It's been a while since we've had a decent falafel and this seemed like the perfect place to remedy that, so the falafel plate it was. The hummus was a little on the oily side but the tzaziki sauce was more minty than it was dilly, which is how we like it, so that was delicious. The falafel, however, was amazing. Crispy and flavorful with cucumber, tomato and lettuce and little tziziki sauce. Throw in some hot sauce added by our own hands, and it was just about damn perfect.

A couple more Mythos' and some baclava and we hit that legendary food coma status again. For the love of all that is holy, we're gonna need a stomach pump and two seats on the plane home by the time we're done here. Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Stay tuned for more WSOP Las Vegas dining hot spots brought to you by your intrepidly expanding Beat reporters.