Has decent Greek food finally arrived in Shanghai?

Shanghaiist received what could prove to be fantastic news yesterday via email: Shanghai finally has a new Greek restaurant. It's called Aegean, and it's located at 333 Changle Lu, near Shaanxi Lu. And, yes, it's already open. We can't recommend it to you ... yet, because we haven't been there ... yet (we are planning on checking it out tonight). Aegean would have to try really hard to be worse than what used to be the city's only Greek restaurant, Acropolis, which was pretty awful back in 2002, the year we gave up on the place.

Aegean occupies the villa vacated by Cantonese restaurant Secret Garden. The location was also one of the spots considered for the new Tang Hui. And it may or may not be a good place to buy stuff for expectant mothers.

Shanghaiist is admittedly excited about tonight's meal ... but we're also a little scared. Aegean is really close to our apartment, and the last time we lived that close to Greek food for an extended period of time -- 1994, when we studied in Athens for a semester -- we gained 15 pounds.

Image of the Greek island of Santorini from Zola Chen.