Kalitsunaki
Zinodotou 6, Pagrati – 210-721-0707
 
Athens is full of little pita shops, and everyone has their favorites. But most shops sell one or two, maybe three “styles” of pitas, from the flaky filo wrapped, to the thick, bread crusted traditional “horiatiki” or village, pita.  You’ll even find pizza pie shapped pans filled with scrumptous rich, [...]

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Cafe Avisina (http://www.avissinia.gr) (Closed Monday – Lunch and Dinner the rest of the week)Plateia Avisina, Monasteraki, Antique Market, 210/32 17 047) We don’t generally recommend places in the Plaka/Monasteraki area, but the food here is excellent, and more than once we have spent a lazy weekend afternoon nippling mezedes and sipping wine while being entertained by [...]

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If you’ve ever been to a Greek restaurant outside of Greece, you are certainly familiar with the ubiquitous “Greek Village Salad”, aka “Village Salad”.
 
The ingredients never vary, whether you are dining in Chicago’s Greektown, New York’s Astoria, or Paris’ St. Michel, tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, green peppers, feta topped with a few Kalamata olives. And of [...]

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Ever since my first trip to Athens in 1989 I have been fascinated by outdoor street markets.  Back then large chain supermarkets were non-existent in Greece, so each neighborhood had it’s own outdoor market day.  And though today there are plenty of big supermarkets, Greek owned chains like A B Vasilopoulos and Veropoulos, and even [...]

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10 Voulis Street, Syntagma Square (closed Sunday)
 From Syntagma Square, face McDonald’s and walk one block down Ermou, Ermou is the center street just to the left of McDonald’s. At the first street, which is Voulis, turn right. Go 1.5 blocks down and you’ll find the bakery on your left hand side, just after one of [...]

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10 Taki and Agion Anargiron 210 321-5368 
We stumbled upon Zeidoron one sunny autumn afternoon while exploring Psirri when Carole’s parents were visiting from Chicago. Knowing that Psirri restaurants are often excuses to operate until the wee hours as a club, we had about given up on finding anything really surprising in the neighborhood (that doesn’t [...]

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One might wonder how come all the restaurants we write about are great. The reason is that we go to many places that we spend alot of time eating at places that we don’t write about …
Our quest usually takes us to side streets and places that are not usually written about or visited [...]

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SYNTAGMA SQUARE
Mitropoleos 12 – 14
210/32.47.607

The true foodie’s cardinal rule: Never go to a restaurant too hungry and never, ever leave too full.
I violated both.
We’d been hearing buzz about Tzitzakis & Mermigas for awhile. Friends who work in the Parliament building say it’s their favorite long lunch, so we thought we’d better check it out. [...]

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Restaurant, Botsaris Fish Taverna, Akti A. Koumoundourou, No. 30, Mikrolimano / Tourkolimano / Garidadika, Piraeus, Greece
You’d think the shrimp were lobsters!
Yorgia and Yorgos Papadopoulos operate this casual restaurant right on the waterfront of Mikrolimano or Tourkolimano in Piraeus. Although the kitchen and a few tables are located on the dry side of the street, [...]

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O LefterisSatobriande Street, behind the Hondos Center off of Omonia SquareOpen noon ’til around 4:30 PM, maybe 5, perhaps even 7:00 PM …
Stop a hundred Athenians on any street corner and ask them for their favorite souvlaki stand, and the chances are you will get a hundred different responses. As a child growing up in [...]

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