Pita Bread (Πίτα) is the Greek flatbread itself: soft, round, slightly thicker than its Middle Eastern relatives, and, the defining trait, usually pocketless. This is not the pouch bread most people picture when they hear pita. Greek pita is a pliable disc built to be a wrap, the structural backbone of the gyro and souvlaki handheld. Understanding it means understanding a carrier, not a filling: its whole job is to hold, fold, and not fail.
The make is geared toward softness and flex. A simple dough, often with a little oil or yogurt worked in to keep it tender, is rolled into a round and cooked fast on a hot griddle or in a hot oven, just long enough to set and take light color without drying. The result should be supple, slightly chewy, and bendable to a tight fold without cracking. Service usually includes a finishing step that matters more than it looks: the round is brushed with oil and warmed on the grill right before use, sometimes against the meat itself, so it softens, picks up a little fat and char, and becomes fully foldable. Good execution is a warm, pliable round that wraps a heavy filling and stays intact in the hand, with a faint griddle char for flavor. Sloppy execution is a cold, stiff, or stale disc that splits along the fold and spills its contents, or one griddled so hard it goes brittle and shatters under the load.
Because it is a carrier, its character comes through in what it is asked to do. Wrapped tight around gyro shavings, onion, tomato, and sauce it is the standard mainland handheld; laid open and stuffed it shifts toward a different format. Those filled preparations, the gyro and souvlaki wraps and the stuffed-pita variants, each deserve their own article rather than being crowded in here, since this entry is about the bread. Its pocketed cousins are genuinely different breads with a different working logic and belong in their own pieces. What defines Greek pita is the soft pocketless round warmed and oiled to fold without breaking, judged entirely on whether it can carry the load without falling apart.