Restaurants

Tirbuson

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...

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Milos Athens

Some things get better with age. Milos is definitely one of them.Thursday afternoon is not a propitious time for lunch in this city of night owls gearing up for the weekend’s food and drinks splurge. So, it was a surprise, to say the least, to see Milos Athens’ stunningly spare dining room filled nearly...

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Cilentio

I had set out to go to one of the new restaurants in Kolonaki when, totally by chance, we passed Cilentio and I remembered that a friend had recently recommended the place. So, cell phone in hand, we cancelled our plans and walked into the oh-so-civilized, gleefully quiet, homey, charming little restaurant on Mantzarou...

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Galazia Akti

I have to be motivated on a hot Saturday night to set out from the northern suburbs all the way to Lagonisi. Motivation came in the form of, what else, a restaurant. Not just any restaurant but a small, very chic, very expensive, very good restaurant whose seats and tables are sprayed by the...

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Galaxy

One of my favorite places in all of Athens is the top of the Hilton. First because it brings back so many memories of my first trips to Greece in the summers of the 1970s but also because the view is pretty spectacular. That said, one of my least favorite places in all of...

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Ta Kioupia

With a handful of foreign visitors in tow, my choice of where to dine had to be narrowed down to Greek and only Greek. But the question then became: traditional or contemporary? One friend wanted to try the latest in Greek food and one wanted to try the oldest. It was time to go...

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