A block south of restaurant-crammed Ditmars Boulevard—Astoria's Greek main drag—there's another street of slightly more concealed Attic eateries, hideaways frequented by Manhattanites who brag to their friends, "You've got to try this place I've found way off the beaten track." These include Stamatis and Telly's Taverna, but go beyond them farther west on 23rd Avenue. There you'll discover, in a residential neighborhood, a genuinely rustic Greek spot situated on the ground floor of a white frame house. Gregory's 26 Corner Taverna has a few chairs out front under an awning where, even in cold weather, patrons sit sipping ouzo and smoking cigarettes. Fishermen come to this patio straight from their Long Island berthages to offer the proprietor catches of porgy and baby dogfish shark, wrapped in brown paper and glistening with seawater.
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