How to Find Greek-Owned Businesses on Google Maps
Updated October 2026
There’s finally a way to find Greek-owned businesses on Google Maps. It’s a free Chrome extension, and it drops a blue Greek-owned badge onto listings the same way Google already flags Black-owned, women-owned and Asian-owned places. It takes about a minute to set up, and there are more than 500 businesses on it already. Here’s how to get it, and how to add the Greek places you love so the next person finds them too.
Quick answer
Google Maps has no Greek-owned tag of its own. Content creator Yanni Dimoulis built a free Greek-owned Chrome extension that drops a blue Greek-owned badge onto listings when you use Google Maps on a desktop. It already flags more than 500 businesses, you can request that missing ones be added, and a mobile version is coming. Install it on Chrome, open Google Maps on your laptop, and the badges show up on their own. I added it from my laptop in Adelaide and it worked straight away.
What the extension does
The extension is the work of Yanni Dimoulis (@yannidimoulis on TikTok), who got sick of never knowing which places were ours and designed a Greek-owned Google Chrome extension to fix it.
Once it is installed, open Google Maps on your computer and the badges appear by themselves. A small blue tag with the Greek flag and the words Greek-owned sits right under the business name, in the same spot Google shows its own owner-identity badges like Black-owned, women-owned and Asian-owned. This gives our community one too. In his demo it shows up on places like Go Grocer and Avli on The Park with nothing to click. It is just there, the way it should have been all along. The database holds more than 500 businesses and it is growing fast, because the whole thing is community-fed.
How to install it on Chrome
Open Google Chrome on a laptop or desktop. The extension runs in the browser, so this is a desktop job for now.
Install the Greek-owned extension from the Chrome Web Store. You can also grab it from the creator’s TikTok bio.
Click Add to Chrome and confirm. It takes a few seconds.
Open Google Maps and look up a Greek restaurant, deli or bakery you already know. If it is in the database, the blue badge will be sitting under the name.
Cycladic Spaces tip: test it on a place you know is Greek before you trust it on one you don’t. Start with your local. If the badge shows up on the souvlaki shop you’ve been going to for 15 years, you know it’s working.
How to add a Greek business that is missing
This is where you come in. With the extension open, pull up the business on Google Maps, scroll down to the request an edit area underneath the listing, and tap Greek-owned. That sends a request for the business to be added to the database.
Do it for the taverna you grew up in, the bakery that does your tsoureki (the sweet Easter bread) at Pascha, the milk bar your pappou ran. Every business you add is one more that the next person finds without having to know the family first.
Put our businesses on the map
The database skews North American right now, which means the Aussie Greek businesses that raised half of us are barely on it. That is a gap we can close in an afternoon.
If you’re in Melbourne, start with Oakleigh. Eaton Mall alone could keep you requesting edits for an hour, and Lonsdale Street in the city has been the Greek heart of the country for decades. Sydney people, you know where to go: Marrickville, Earlwood, Brighton-le-Sands. In Adelaide, where I live, half the best food in town is Greek and almost none of it announces itself to a stranger. The cake shops on Prospect Road. The continental delis that still slice their own loukaniko. These are the places that fed the first generation when they got off the boat and kept feeding the rest of us, the same cooking that pulls Australians toward Greece in the first place. Add one and it’s there for whoever comes looking next.
For more on living Greek a long way from home, it’s all in the Greeks Abroad blog.
Frequently asked questions
Is there a Greek-owned filter on Google Maps?
Not an official one. Google offers owner-identity attributes like Black-owned, women-owned and Asian-owned, but Greek-owned is not among them. The only way to see Greek-owned badges today is through the free community-built Chrome extension described above.
How do I get the Greek-owned badge to show up?
Install the Greek-owned Chrome extension on a desktop or laptop, then open Google Maps in that browser. The blue Greek-owned tag appears under listings that are in the database, automatically, with nothing else to click.
Does it work on my phone?
Not yet. For now it runs as a Chrome extension on desktop only. Dimoulis has said a mobile app is coming, so phone users will get there soon.
Is this made by Google?
No. Google had nothing to do with it. It is an independent tool built by content creator Yanni Dimoulis, and the badges are a helpful, crowd-sourced guide, so check anything important yourself.
How do I add a Greek business that isn’t listed?
With the extension open, pull up the business on Google Maps, scroll down to the request an edit area underneath the listing, and tap Greek-owned. That sends a request for it to be added to the shared database.
Is it free?
Yes. The extension is free to install and free to use, and requesting businesses costs nothing either.
Keep reading
The Greeks Abroad blog, for more on living Greek a long way from Greece.
So support Greek businesses. Install it, then add the first Greek place you can think of, the one your family has been going to for years.
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