Lockdowning style reboot: Glamping at home
Remember the frenzy to bake banana bread and stir cocktails? So Lockdown 1! Why bother when you can order? Here are 5 ways to enhance your festive ...
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Celebrate Thanksgiving in the comfort of your home...
This Thanksgiving, show gratitude and appreciation for the little pleasures in l...
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Tracing the Outstanding Olive to its Neolithic roo...
What would life in Greece be like, without olives for eating and olive...
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Two Classic Greek Christmas Sweets
It’s not Christmas in Greece until the zacharoplasteia start piling mounds of melomakarona and kourabiedes. And it cleaves Greek society into two clans: those who prefer the crunchy intensity of melomakarona and those who swear by the ethereal, melt in the mouth, buttery bite of a kourabie. By Diana Farr Louis More traditiona...
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Make like a Mushroom!
Prefer to stay in the dark? With mushroom season in full swing, why not occupy yourself with some of the tastiest nature therapy around on a becalming wild mushroom safari in Greece’s spectacular woodlands and evergreen forests or a world-famous national park. ©Nat...
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Athénée’s new unconventional cocktail list
Behind the impressive bar at the city’s cherished Athénée, two mixologists play with flavours and aromas that you do not expect to find in your glass. Angela Stamatiadou raises a toast. With Athénée’s new cocktail list "Unconventional", Dimitris Karapanos and Vassilis Sgouromallis play with the idea of culinary-inspired ...
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Le Pavillon: Talented French Chef Jean-Charles Métayer touches down in Halandri
What do you get when you blend creative Greek flavours with that famous French flair and an award-winning international chef? A sure-fire recipe for gastronomic greatness! Jean-Charles Métayer’s exciting new venture, Le Pavillon, opens its doors this week in Halandri, and we’ve dished up an early taste of what to expect. Angela Stamatiado...
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Drink Pink for October
Thanks to Brangelina and their cultish little drop Whispering Angel, rosé wines are no longer languishing at the bottom of the barrel. Greek rosé wines have shed their inferiority complex too (along with their sugars) to claim a loyal new fanbase of drinkers, intoxicated by their light appeal and palatable prices, finds Cordelia Madden-Ka...
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Salad Days: 6 Super Healthy Recipes for October
Salads shouldn’t be side-lined… let these wonderfully light and nutritious recipes take centre-stage as full meals. Compiled by Athens Fitness Specialists Holmes Place, they’ll get you quickly back on track after a summer of culinary excess. Quinoa Salad ©Flickr[/ca...
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Wild and sweet: The timeless appeal of Greek honey
Susanna Hoffman traces Greece’s 6000 year-long love affair with honey and the evolution of the Greek honey industry to include a whole range of apiary offerings from royal jelly, propolis, bees’ pollen and extended product lines that cover the gamut from sauces to soaps, all enriched with Greek honey. [caption id="attachment_8...
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Where to find the best slice of pizza in Athens
Gooey and comforting, quick and easy … there are times when only a pizza fix will do. From authentic Italian to Greek spins and vegetarian delights, Athens Insider selflessly scoured the streets to scout the city’s best 5 pizza places. You’re welcome! Etien Pizza Bar From its retro decor in hues of dusty pink offset by sun...
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Saffron Blooms: The story of the world’s most expensive spice
Precious things rarely come easy. Come October, the landscape of Kozani erupts into a purple carpet of saffron blossoms. Behind this glorious spectacle, however, lies weeks of back-breaking labour to transform this most fragile of flowers into the world’s most sought-after spice. Driving north in October on the Greek mainl...
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