Pantry · Crete, Greece

Yiayia & Friends

Greek olive oil, poured the way a grandmother would.

Yiayia means grandmother in Greek, and this brand is built around one: a Cretan yiayia and her animal friends, who share family recipes and table wisdom through the stories on every label.

Olive: Koroneiki, single variety
Based in: Crete, Greece

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The story of Yiayia & Friends

Every family in Greece has a yiayia, and every yiayia has opinions about olive oil. Yiayia & Friends takes that idea and builds a whole pantry around it: oils, vinegars and infusions from Greece, each dressed in an illustrated bottle and paired with a story from Yiayia and her animal friends about cooking, sharing and sitting down together.

The base of it all is extra virgin olive oil from Koroneiki olives grown on Crete. Koroneiki is a small olive, prized across the island for oil that is green, fruity and gently peppery, and Yiayia & Friends keeps it as a single variety rather than blending it away.

From there the range grows the way a home kitchen does: garlic, lemon, basil, chilli and black truffle oils for finishing and dipping, plus an organic balsamic made from organically grown Greek grapes and aged for ten years in wooden barrels.

How it's made

The olives are grown on Crete and pressed into extra virgin olive oil from a single variety, Koroneiki. The flavored oils start from that same base. The organic balsamic is aged naturally for ten years in wooden barrels before it is bottled.

Our featured pick

Love Extra Virgin Olive Oil (500ML)

The everyday bottle that started our Yiayia shelf.

$40.00

'Love' is the house oil: extra virgin olive oil from Koroneiki olives grown under the Cretan sun, in a half-litre bottle made to live on the counter, not in the cupboard. It is the one to reach for every day, whether you are dressing a tomato salad, finishing a bowl of beans or putting out bread for dipping.

Koroneiki oil leans green and fruity with a gentle peppery finish, so it brings flavor without taking over the plate. The opaque glass bottle keeps light off the oil, and the wooden cap and built-in spout pour a clean, steady stream.

Tasting notes: Green and fruity, with a soft peppery finish.
How to use it: Drizzle over salads, grilled vegetables, fish and warm bread. Keep it out of direct light and close the cap between pours.
Pairs with: Feta, ripe tomatoes, crusty bread and the Yiayia & Friends organic balsamic.

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Why we carry them

We stock Yiayia & Friends because it does two things at once. The oil is honest Cretan Koroneiki, good enough for everyday cooking and finishing, and the bottles are pretty enough to give as a gift without wrapping. It is the easiest host gift on our pantry shelf.