Olympian Greek Souvlaki · South Pattaya
Location & Hours
Greek souvlaki grill · 3rd Road · Pattaya City
Olympian Greek Souvlaki is a street-front Greek grill on South Pattaya Road (3rd Road), directly in front of Tony’s Fitness. It is a counter with an open grill rather than a restaurant with a door, so the thing to look for from the pavement is the skewers going over the heat. This page covers finding it, getting to it from wherever you are staying, and what the hours mean for planning an evening.
Finding it: the two names for one street
The address is written both ways — South Pattaya Road and 3rd Road — and both point at the same place. That trips up visitors more than anything else about getting here. Pattaya is laid out as a set of long roads running roughly parallel, inland from the water: Beach Road first, then Second Road, then Third Road, then Sukhumvit further back. Locals will say Pattaya Tai for the South Pattaya end of town and Pattaya Sai Sam for Third Road, and taxi drivers, delivery riders and map apps mix the English and Thai names freely. If one name gets you a blank look, use the other, and then use the landmark.
Tony’s Fitness is the landmark that actually works. It is a gym, and it is an easier thing to ask a driver for than a small shop name. Olympian is on the street front in front of it. Do not look for a restaurant frontage, a lobby or a menu stand on the pavement — this is a grill counter, the sort of place you can order from while standing on the street, and it is easy to walk past if you are scanning for something bigger. Once the grill is lit in the evening you will smell it before you see it.
Address
In front of Tony’s Fitness
South Pattaya Road (3rd Road)
Pattaya City, Bang Lamung District
Chon Buri 20150, Thailand
Coordinates: 12.9234077, 100.8826601
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The version to give a driver or a rider
The most reliable thing you can do with any driver in Pattaya is show a screen rather than say a name. Open the map pin and hand over the phone, or read out the coordinates above. If you are saying it out loud, the useful words in order are: Pattaya Tai or South Pattaya Road, then Sai Sam or Third Road, then Tony’s Fitness. “Olympian Greek Souvlaki” is a small shop name and a driver may not know it; “the gym on Third Road” is understood. Grab riders work from the pin in the app listing, so there is usually nothing to explain.
Opening hours, honestly
Tuesday – Saturday: 15:00 – 23:00
Sunday & Monday: Closed
Hours follow Thailand time (ICT). The grill is busiest after 19:00 on open nights — call ahead if you want to confirm we are running.
Three things that follow, said plainly because they are what people get wrong. There is no lunch service — nothing before 15:00 on any day, so souvlaki at midday is not happening and an early dinner is the answer. Sunday and Monday the shop is closed, and that includes delivery, because the same grill and the same person cook for the app and for the counter. And the shop closes at 23:00, so a late order needs a little room rather than being placed at the last minute.
The easy visit is early evening, shortly after the grill opens. It is the quiet end of the window, you can talk to whoever is cooking, and you are not competing with the after-work crowd.
What to expect when you arrive
A counter, an open grill and skewers. Your order goes onto the heat when you place it, so nothing is sitting under a lamp waiting to be sold, and that is the trade: you wait a few moments longer than you would at a warming tray, and in exchange the meat comes off the fire with edges still crisp and the pita is warmed while you stand there. Most days Yannis Pagiannidis is the one at the grill, which means you can ask what the vegetarian option is today, or which meat is better tonight, and get an answer from the person cooking it rather than from a script.
It is a grill counter rather than a taverna — no wine list, no long menu, no table service. If you want to know about seating, payment or parking, ask at the counter or on the phone; we would rather you ask than read a guess on a website. Those questions and a few dozen others are covered in the FAQ.
Getting here from around Pattaya
No travel times are given below, because they depend entirely on the traffic and the hour and a made-up number is worth nothing. What follows is the direction of travel and the landmarks that keep you oriented.
Baht bus or Grab. A baht bus, the shared pickup truck locals call a songthaew, runs fixed loops along Beach Road and Second Road and out along South Pattaya Road, and you ride in the back, press the buzzer when you want to stop and pay at the driver’s window. It is the local way and it is fine if your route matches the loop. Grab is the app option: you get a fixed pickup, no negotiation and no language problem, and it makes more sense if you are coming from Jomtien, Naklua or anywhere off the main loops. Whichever you use, the instruction to give is Tony’s Fitness on South Pattaya Road, or the map pin.
Phone and delivery
Phone: +66 86 061 8843
Grab Food: order Olympian for delivery
Delivery runs through Grab and nothing else, within the same hours as the counter. If you are ordering from a distance, plates travel better than wraps and it is worth asking for the sauce separately — the reasoning is on the delivery page.
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