Many years ago, young Panos was sailing with his father down the coast of the Mediterranean where they noticed a hidden olive grove on the embankment.  It was an old grove grown wild. In the middle of it, a beam of sunlight broke through and illuminated the most beautiful olive tree they had ever seen.

Upon this tree grew beautiful red olives unlike any they¹d ever seen. The bright red olives were ripe and succulent. They tasted like a mixture of the best flavors blended from all the different olives they’d sampled before. 

Panos had never seen red olives like that before or since. That tree was “one in a million!” But it inspired him to create his own restaurant years later where he would offer up the same blend of all the best tastes he¹d discovered around the world, especially those of the Mediterranean and his homeland of Greece. He wanted his restaurants to be the “one in a million” place that stood out from all the other choices.

Thus, the Red Olive Restaurant was born!