Greece Travel Guía

Athens offers a variety of common kitchen, complemented by the traditional music, and the need to feed the stomach of the visitor. As the Greek kitchen is own, but at the same time very famous and known for many, one can find restaurants to the taste of the whole world. Eating in the outskirts is a serious part of culture Athenian. There you can find many meal places. Of eating of street, the buy of a Koulouri (the touch (I ring) of bread of seed of sesame) of a seller of the street, or Galaktoboureko (the delightful cake filled by cream scaly heading with one to dust icing sugar), to Tyropitta (cheesecakes) or souvlaki (kebabs), now known in most of Europe, one can eat a meal, in any place only crossing the streets. The fast food restaurants now are added to the traditional bar where a cheap meal in general can still be had.

Greek wines satisfy to once the production only a humble cousin to retsina, the wine resinated, that is of acquired but good taste. There are Greek wines noticed internationally and some are very quite really. One of the most popular food and more eaten Greek is souvlaki. It is in general of veal, the lamb or the pork that is served on a round Greek bread with the lettuce, the tomato, onions, chips and tzatziki. Souvlaki is to Greece what the hamburger is to EU.

Restaurants
Athens has the best and the most diverse restaurants and pubs in the Plaka, Psiri and the nearby areas. Remember that if you ask for the fish often it is sold by the kilo before you choose they make sure that you know the price since this can change enormously of a fish to other. The wine of the house is cheaper than the bottled wine and if often better, how it should be. The vegetarians can find widely choosing of still in the restaurant meatiest. The prices in Greek restaurants in general already will include the tax on the sale of 10 %. Nevertheless, they need that all the Greek restaurants for the law add a commission for operation of 13 % to the account (to the bill) and there is still used to leave the bartender an additional tip of 10 % on the top. Here we mention some restaurants that offer different plates:

Blue It is in 43 Haritos, Kolonáki. (Phone 21072 53817). Kolonáki perhaps the heart of day commerce, but before the night this one is charming for the warm welcome. Blue has gained itself a reputation for the Mediterranean Greek innovative kitchen, with the exquisite meat and plates of fish accompanied by light sauces and aromatic grasses, as exclusively in the jumping and the lemon sauce. The interior dining room is small, with only a dozen and so much of tables.

Archeon Gefsis Ello is in 10 Epidaurou, Kastella, Piraeus. (Phone 21041 38617). The main courses of this feature of restaurant that there nurses the stuffed glutton of the liver, the apple, chestnuts and you happen, while the desserts as the apple, the grenade and the yogurt with the honey are divine. The food is assisted in the ancient style, with a spoon and the knife. There is also a central division, nevertheless, the establishment of Piraeus is in a neoclassic beautiful building together to the sports port Mikrolimano.

Aristera Dexia Ello is in 3 Andronikou, Gazi. (Phone 21034 22380). This restaurant takes its name of the plant of gas city. Young, refined Athenians they come here to eat the miscellany kitchen, with main courses including the sausage of pheasant with parsnips in the sauce madeira. The dinners should save the space of a dessert the chocolate whipped cream with the purée of fruit of passion is exquisite. The interior is quite impressive, with a crystal alley that he leads on an underground wine vault. During warm evenings there are tables out in the courtyard.

The lady's man Brummel Ello is in 9 Ag Dimitriou, Kifissia. (Phone 21062 36780). This restaurant is one of the costliest restaurant of Athens, value in the Lady's man Brummel, in the elegant district of Kifissia. This one has a French style and a Mediterranean light and healthier inclination, with an emphasis on local fresh vegetables and seafood, as low of prepared sea (fish) in Noilly Prat and served with the fennel sauce. The dining room of the first plant shows the calm delight and the soil of parquet of elegance, the exposed hewing of stone, silver silverware and the crystal of the first floor recently open the Brewery now offers 30 menu of the day relaxed for the Sunday lunch.

The Cosmos It is in 8 Omirou, Neo-Psihiko. (Phone 210672 9150). The interior of this restaurant of elegant bar covers simple furniture, modern paintings and the lighting of industrial style. The letter du jour contains an inspiring scale of aperitifs, pastas, meat, fish and plates of cheese, as well as sandwiches. The second apartment gallery supports exhibitions of contemporary works of art and remains opened even 24:00.

Damigos Ello is in 41 Kidathineon, Plaka. (Phone 21032 25084). The Damigos the first opened in 1865, it doing perhaps older pub in Athens. One of two spaces is to store many of the enormous wine barrels for exhibition. The menu includes local warm plates, significantly bakaliaros tiganitos (the cod freído in a lot of oil) and melitzanes tiganites (eggplant freída), both are served with skorthalia (the thick sauce of garlic). The house the white wine comes from the family vineyard.

Diporto Agora Ello is located in the Hill Lykavittos. (Tel: 21032 11463). For an unusual night of walk, take the teleférico up to the Lykavittos peak and look at the game of the sun on the panoramic attraction of Athens with the dining room to the horizon. The menu in this exclusive restaurant is the Greek influenced Mediterranean, with a protrusion on seafood. The food and the service are the world, such class which the list of wines.

Her Or Bananas It is in 4 Diogenous, Plaka. (Phone 21032 20666). This is one of the oldest pubs of Plaka placed close to the Tower of the Winds and the O Banana it serves the best home-made kitchen from 1932. There is a good stews option, principally the lamb or the veal cooked with okra, potatoes, spinach or with eggplants, while the only dessert on the offer is the syrup it wetted baklava. The wine of the house, a barrel retsina, it is enormous. The interior is green and white simple covering and wooden chairs while they arrange tables out along with a nice jasmine and the covered patio.

Pil Poul Ello is in 5 Apostolou Pavlou, Thissio. (Phone 21034 23665). Often mentioned like the top restaurant of Athens, it was rewarded by Spondi Michellin stars by the ambience in the district Pangrati and it governs a jumped stone cellar, furnished by simple good taste and the subtle lighting. In summer, there are tables out in a nice courtyard. The menu emphasizes the merger kitchen, with an abundant employment of aromatic grasses and spices. The messmates can choose of main courses like the pigeon breast with the artichoke sauce or low of sea with the petal of rose and the sauce of vanilla. Recommended reservations.

Thanasis Ello is in 69 Mitropoleos, Monastiráki. (Phone 21032 44705). A classic place to stop for souvlaki kalamaki (shish the kebab) assisted with the pitta bread and chips potatoes, Thanasis is famous with the assiduous ones and it is usually incredibly busy, especially in weekends. The ambience is rapid and chaotic, but traditional simultaneously that diverse and happy. The tables are put in a high space on the kitchen in the open plant, as well as out of the street, about the corner of the metro station Monastiráki.

In Kafeneio it is in 26 Loukianou, Kolonáki. (Phone 21072 29056). This is a famous place for the lunch between the persons who work close. The air that is breathed in the restaurant is sophisticated, but comfortable, with covered wooden walls and in roses. Someone might begin with the magnet melitzanes baildi (the eggplant in the garlic and the tomato), continued for hirino me selino (the pork casserole with the wild celery) and of postreun avgolemono a creamy lemon and the sauce.

Spondi Ello is in 5, Pyrronos San, Pagrati. (Phone 21075 64021). This restaurant coherentemente has been voted in Athens like the best and the recognitions well are deserved. Spondi offers the Mediterranean French imaginative kitchen with some Greek influences. There is a charming garden patio covered in bougainvillea in the summer. The desserts are exquisite, the irreproachable service and the list of wines are excellent. Open sea 8:00pm-12:00am