Top 10 Restaurants in Greece

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This large restaurant with a pleasant outside veranda continues to attract locals, although it does a brisk business with tour groups as well. You'll find the usual grilled chops and souvlaki, stuffed tomatoes and dolmades, but the vegetable dishes are unusually good, as is the lamb stew with lots of garlic and oregano.

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The 2 Mazi (two together) speaks of Yiannis Baksevanis and Elias Gogos, the executive chefs of this hidden treasure on Nikis Street. Chef Baksevanis, trained in Paris, creates a menu of fifteen dishes that changes monthly. A cozy wine bar with mezze (small appetizers to accompany the wine) offers an alternative to a long, formal meal, or just have your gourmet delivered to enjoy it in the comfort of {insert preferred environment here} Whatever your choice, you're going to enjoy some of the highest quality of food prepared in Athens.

€ 40-45 per person including wine or dessert
Or opt for the "Menu Degustation" where you can choose 9 or 12 "surpises," small, elegant dishes sized for tasting.
9 surprises: €55
12 surprises: €65

Our Local Expert Says:

Microlimino is THE place to impress someone or make a magical memory. Plous Podilatou is the hot spot to do it in.

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Tucked in a nestled cove of fantastic fisheries in romantic Microlimino is the exiting, new Plous Podilatou (Sailing Bicycle.) Made by the same creators as the fabulously successful Kitrino Podilato (Yellow Bicycle) Chef Vasilis Alvanidis employs creativity with Mediterranean seafood standards. Risotto with leek and lobster, spaghetti with steamed clams in white wine from the Aegean island of Limnos, and grilled Plurotis mushrooms served with smoked Graviera cheese, just as teasers.

Enjoy it all in a well designed, minimalist decor with waterfront tables.

Dresscode: Casual for lunch and casual evening for dinner

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After two successful locations in Montreal and New York, Milos arrives at its birthplace and is better than ever. Housed in the ground floor of the Hilton hotel, this is an absolute must for any seafood lover. The main draw here is the freshness of the ingredients supplied from all over the country, sent directly to the restaurant via airplane from the fishing boats. The prices are a bit high but it is truly worth it.

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Hands down best delivery food in Athens.

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Located inside a small lobby (back and to the left) not far from Syntagma Square, you won't quite understand why a little place like this has been featured in the New York Times. This is not a place you go for atmosphere, though they do offer you a seat at the one table in the midst of the happy, busy buzz of the kitchen if you would like to dine there. It's a place you go for genuine, delicious food prepared with love and extreme attention to quality. The cheeses, olives, oil and bread all come from trusted producers in some of the best agricultural regions of Greece, including Amorgos Island, Kithera and the Macedonia. All of the food is prepared by award winning chef, Konstantinos Siopidis, though you would never know it by the prices. Even the most complicated dishes are not over twelve euros. The pastries and savory pies are made by his mother in law, Irini, who has given demonstrations of her cooking on television shows.

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Greek food just tastes better with a view of the sea. At Ta Vrahia tis Peiraikis in the Port of Piraeus, you understand the nostalgia associated with fresh octopus and squid, lightly fried mezedes and perfect tomatoes served on the classic little blue chairs and checkered tablecloths.

20-30 Euros per person
Closest Metro: Piraeus

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The perfect activity to include in a night walk around Plaka; going to the Melina cafe for ice cream in the summer or tea with brandy in the winter.

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This cafe was once a humble, but popular bakery set in nostalgic Plaka. Now it is a cafe dedicated to the memory of the modern goddess of Athens, Melina Mercouri. Andreas Martzaklis, the owner, started as a waiter, then a Maitre at the Prime Minister's Hall where he had the opportunity to converse with the the then Minister of Culture, Melina Mercouri. In 1994 upon her passing, he named his cafe in her honor and filled it with her essence.
The warm and golden first impression on entering is thanks to music professor, Elena Ntouchanika, who still manages the easy-on-the-ears soundtrack. The cafe's philosophy is to hold to the spirit of Old Athens and Plaka, something close to the heart of their muse.

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This simple, year-round restaurant attracts locals in the summer and skiers in the winter. The menu is typical Greek taverna fare (grills and stews), but there's usually a wide variety of mezedes, and wood paneling (just about everything in Delphi that can be wood-paneled is!) makes the room cozy.

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Easily the best restaurant with a view in Delphi, with an astonishingly extensive and varied menu (including tasty veggie fritters, delicious local olives and formaella cheese, lamb with fresh tomato sauce, keftedes (grilled round meatballs) and sousoutakia (oval rice-and-meat-balls, stewed in tomato sauce) and, in season, wild boar, casseroled with tomatoes, onions, and herbs). If you come early, you may be one of few diners not with a tour group; come after 9pm and you may dine with Greek visitors and locals.

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This small taverna gets many of its customers from the youth hostel. This means that the prices are very reasonable, the clientele casual, and the food basic (although they sometimes serve game in winter). The back room with its veranda has good views over Delphi, across the plain of olives, and to the Corinthian Gulf. The neighboring Taverna Lekaria, at 33 Apollonos, is a bit more ambitious and a bit more expensive and has a nice courtyard with flowering plants. The Lekaria usually has excellent local loukanika (sausages) and briam (a veggie stew steeped in olive oil) and sliced apple rounds sprinkled with cinnamon for a healthy dessert.