Pita Gyros Horis Kremydi is the standard pita gyros ordered with one deletion: horis kremydi, without onion. It is among the most common modifications called out at a Greek gyros counter, usually for the obvious social reason, and the entire angle here is what the build loses when the raw onion comes out and how a good shop compensates for it.
Everything else stays in order: warm griddled pita, tzatziki on the bread, carved gyros off the spit, sliced tomato, fries, rolled into a cone. What disappears is the raw onion's specific job, which is sharpness and crunch cutting through the fat of the meat and the cool dairy of the tzatziki. Without it the sandwich runs softer and rounder, and a careless build can taste flat and a little monotonous, all warm meat and creamy sauce with nothing bright against it. Good execution recognises the gap and leans harder on what remains: a little more acid and freshness from properly ripe tomato, a tzatziki with assertive garlic and a real vinegar or lemon edge, and meat carved with crisp browned bits so texture comes from the spit rather than from the onion. Sloppy work just omits the onion and changes nothing else, leaving a one-note, faintly dull wrap; worse is the shop that "removes" the onion but leaves a forgotten layer of it in the cone anyway, which defeats the entire reason the order was placed. The structural side is unchanged: still a soft pita, still a tight roll, still a sealed base.
This variant is defined purely by absence, which makes it a clean test of whether a counter actually balances a gyros or just relies on raw onion to do the work. Some shops swap in a little extra tomato or a few rings of milder spring onion to keep the lift without the bite; others add nothing and the round simply eats gentler, which is exactly what some people want at midday or before going back to work. The standard everything-in pita gyros apo ola it derives from deserves its own article rather than being crowded in here; at this entry the single variable is the missing kremydi and what a good shop does to fill the space it leaves.