City Life
City Life | Dec 2024
Tucked just off the hip and happening Ag.Theodoron Sq, Muse Bistro at the Gem Society Hotel captures the essence of the Mediterranean's graceful lifestyle, serving it up in artful, flavourful portions. The new winter menu, a harmonious blend of comforting Greek influences and French techniques, evokes the soulful warmth of family feasts.
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City Life | Dec 2024
If you’ve been sprucing up and decluttering your family’s closets, this quick guide on where you can donate what might come in handy! And if you have a bit of time and a few hugs to spare, we’ve got that covered too!
AGALIA
Agalia, translates as an embrace, and more than baby paraphernalia, it is that warm human touch that these abandoned ...
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City Life | Dec 2024
Marina Sakellariou of The Meet Market curates a selection of local, ethical, cruelty-free fashion and accessory brands rooted in creativity and sustainability.
Desperate Artists
Always desperately wanting every single piece of jewellery that Zefi designs. You can find simple everyday jewellery but also this is wher...
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City Life | Nov 2024
Make your way this Saturday, on 30 November 2024 to Bustan Athina's fundraiser, a Levantine collective fostering cross-cultural exchange at OKUPA in Athens. From 2 to 9pm, support this singular initiative that blends food, drinks, art, music, and storytelling to highlight the shared cultural threads between the Levant and Athenians, whil...
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City Life | Nov 2024
In our New Athenians series, artist Diane Alexandre shares her creative inspirations with us and tells us why for her Athens is a city of constant opportunities.
ABOUT YOU
What do you do?
I am a sculptor and céramicist with a background in literature and graphic design.
About the Ceramics Scene in Athens -- Sum up how ...
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City Life | Nov 2024
Run the gauntlet of the Athens meat market to find a traditional taverna tucked away inside. With a range of authentic, hearty dishes, it's worth the trip.
Restaurants state their intention in different ways. Some places rely on names and logos to do the initial work, while others still let the menu do the talking. Some restau...
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City Life | Nov 2024
WHAT'S ON: Michael Werner Gallery, Athens, is delighted to present Faithfully Represented, an exhibition showcasing the latest paintings by Barbara Wesołowska, a Poland-born, London-based artist whose work bridges the ethereal and the earthly.
The title Faithfully Represented, drawn from Sigmund Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams, resonates with t...
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City Life | Nov 2024
Always wanted to know why the date November 17 is such a big deal but didn’t quite know why. Nor did you quite understand why Greece’s most notorious terrorist group goes by the same name. Accomplished writer Sofka Zinovieff lends context and historical explanation to this all-important date in the Greek calendar in this excerpt from her ...
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City Life | Nov 2024
Okupa is a new multi-hyphenate hotel, restaurant, bar, record shop, co-working space and archaeological display and undoubtedly more, on the border of Psiri and Keramikos.
Led by an impressive pair of longtime hospitality experts, and charming hosts, George Batrouni and Hrag Darakjian, Okupa was conceived as an urban hub to ad...
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City Life | Nov 2024
In our New Athenians series, Calliope Karvounis shares her sartorial passions, her itinerant photography career, and her keen curatorial eye in collecting fabrics, traditions and stories from wherever she’s been – a world she has recreated in her fabulous store, Queen Calliope on Merlin Street. Calliope’s personal style radiates through h...
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City Life | Nov 2024
Whatever culinary form your self-care takes, whether it's healthy salads, lovingly made pies, cakes and desserts or excellent coffee, Ohh Boy caters for it.
Situated in the ever on the up area of Pangrati and surrounded by the galleries, clothes shops, bars and restaurants of Archelaou, Ohh Boy is almost as good for people wat...
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City Life | Nov 2024
by Sudha Nair-Iliades
As a competitive sprinter (many moons ago), I never thought I’d be championing walking over running, but into my third marathon this year, I’ve come to enjoy the joys of walking 42.195 kms spread across a good six and a half hours. Once you’re past the sniggers of “anybody could walk a marathon, what’s the big dea...
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