Gazi, Keramikos, Metaxourgeio. These are the areas of so many Athenians’ nights out, mine included. On the last several forays down there, roaming the area looking for parking, I couldn’t help but notice one of the last of the Moheekan: an 80-year old taverna right on the corner of Leonidiou Street that looked great...
Wednesday night in the middle of December isn’t typically a great night to go on restaurant outings in Athens. Most places are pretty quiet. But we set out to visit friends who had just moved downtown and we wanted quiet. A place to talk and eat at a reasonable price. So, we opted for...
A down and dirty, fun, very local Greek place where tourists can see firsthand how Greeks have fun, on weeknights, but especially on weekends and at Sunday lunch. Where do a carload full of nostalgic islanders head when one of the clan is leaving to go back to New York for the winter? In...
Naxiotiko Kafeneio For the first time in a long time we spent a Sunday afternoon wandering around Psirri, attracted by the artwalk and also by the perfect weather. That ability to sit outdoors and eat on a February day pretty much sums up all the reasons why the Mediterranean, and especially Greece, is such...
Gazi, on a Wednesday night: Roaming around Gazi just the other night gave me the feeling I sometimes have when I’ve been away for a week or so, come back, and notice that my children have grown. It had been a while since I had strolled around the old streets of Keramikos and Gazi,...
Konstantinoupoleos is the ever-growing hot spot for Athens’ restaurant and bar scene. Most of the places down here are characterized by their casual, easy approach to food, their simple menus, their equal emphasis on drinking and eating, their younger (than me) crowd. Tirbouson shares all these descriptions and it’s a place I would easily...
Visit us on the Blue Zone island Ikaria, where people have the longest life spans in the world, for a week of glorious Greek cooking classes in an ancient Greek-island village.
