Athens’ Best Museum Cafes
Want to grab a coffee? Get your caffeine fix with art, sculptures and music for company at these four great museum cafes. Photos by Marie-Irène Moschona Acropolis Museum With a cafe on the ground floo...
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Money
WHAT: Explore money’s enduring symbology from the earliest forms of coinage to ancient Greek banking practices and the evolution of currency. Money: Tangible symbols in ancient Greece - in cooperation with the Alpha Bank Numismatic Collection – looks at how, historically, coins have also been used to transmit ideas, status and propaganda. Admission...
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Your Insider’s Guide to Athens’ Best Shopping Malls
Athenians’ love affair with shopping malls still burns bright. Four self-confessed “mall rats” share their insider secrets to help you get the best from their favourite Athens shopping destination. Golden Hall Meg Cope Founder and creative di...
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On Top of the World
Qatar Airways’ Senior Vice President for Europe, Mr. Jonathan Harding, talks to Insider’s Amanda Dardanis about the carrier’s game-changing new business class suites and the bumpy conditions that the elite airline weathered this summer. In the international airline carrier business, one minute you’re up; the next you’re down, ...
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Zeus + Δione: Greek at the Seams
The fashionista’s favourite Greek label, Zeus + Δione, debuted six years ago. Founders Mareva Grabowski and Dimitra Kolotoura had a vision that was both entrepreneurial and philanthropic: the duo wanted to create a brand that ‘would give life back’ to struggling Greek villages who survived on crafts, in particular, Soufli, one of Greece’s...
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Mama Thai: Sugar and Spice and all things Nice
Amanda Dardanis visits the new restaurant arrival that’s finally broken the drought for Thai food aficionados on the southside - and encounters a novel dining concept that’s not afraid to leave you a little hot under the collar. Whenever my family and I go out for a celebratory dinner somewhere fancy, we like to play the “What...
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Cookoovaya Poetry on a Plate
What happens when five phenomenally-talented Greek chefs - including twice Michelin-awarded Nikos Karathanos, brothers and meat artists, Spyros and Vangelis Liakos, master flavor manipulator Pericles Koskinas, and intrepid experimenter Manos Zournatzis - join forces to open their dream restaurant. Total Kitchen Anarchy? Or Gastronomic Wiz...
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Anahita: The Best Persian Invasion Since Xerxes
Athens’ oldest Persian restaurant Anahita is a great jump-off point for first-timers to discover the fragrant flavours and novel textures of Iranian food. Insider shortlists a few must-try dishes in order for you to fully savour this marvelous exotic cuisine. You’d have imagined that with the reams devoted to the Persian invas...
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6 Great Bookshop Cafes in Athens
Amanda Dardanis joins the slow living movement and retreats from the mad whirl at one of these comfy-cosy and welcoming book nooks where you can easily while away a morning or afternoon, lost in a world of words. Poems & Crimes Art Bar A quaint and chameleon-like literary den that evolves with the hour. Walk into Poems &...
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Zonars: A Star is (Re)Born
Paris has Les Deux Magots, Athens has Zonar’s. Insider takes a nostalgic look at one of the capital’s most famous and beloved café icons, Zonar’s, fresh from its recent re-fit. Traditionally a meeting place for politicians and intellectuals, but also of the Athenian bourgeoisie, the legendary café-brasserie Zonar's reopened a ...
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Therapy in a Glass at GB Roof Garden!
At Bar 8, GB Roof Garden Bar, there’s no need to feel guilty about that mid-week cocktail splurge. Their exquisite new range of healing cocktails, concocted from the natural herbs and aromas of Greece, can actually do you the power of good! Cocktails sure aren’t what they used to be. Especially in the city of Athens. In this e...
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A Tribute to the Humble Greek Kiosk
An essential element of the streetscape of every Greek city and town, the corner kiosk’s or periptero’s unique contribution to the rhythm and character of Greek daily life cannot be undermined. Open until the wee hours of the night, the periptero is where one stocks up on cigarettes and newspapers (strung out like laundry and ...
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