There are very few real neighborhood places in Athens, hang outs where office types congregate after work for a beer or a glass of wine and something to nibble on. Efimeron is one such place, located right around the corner from the brand new Onassis...
This is about the defrocking of a cult hero!
About 20 years ago, when we first moved to Athens, Valentina, in the boondocks of Kallithea, a working class neighborhood that is home to many of the most recent Greek immigrants from the farthest reaches...
Restaurant finds are a rare thing in Athens. The kind of places you simply stumble upon that turn out to be great are few and far between. Breeze Café is one such place.Situated on the lower plaza in the Agia Paraskevi suburb (a place that once was...
How could Frank Bruni, the New York Times’ former restaurant critic, miss the ugly duckling, which is what Askimopapo translates to, when he wrote a recent roundup of traditional Athenian tavernas? Indeed, Askimopapo is one of this city’s oldest holes...
Athens is a restaurant town with many faces. The best food is usually the simplest, expressed in down-and-dirty truly Greek cooking. The city has grown from one where the corner taverna and souvlaki joint reined supreme to one filled with ethnic foods from every corner of the globe to haute mush, as I like to call the babel of international cuisine that has neither a border nor a personality. In DineOutAthens you'll find my opinionated take on this city's restaurants, tavernas and more. For close to 20 years now I have been reviewing restaurants for Athens largest circulation daily, Ta Nea.
A word on tips: The tip is part of the bill in Greece, but most people usually leave about 10% in addition to the bill. Small places often don't take credit cards.