How to do Lent in Greece
With so many Lenten treats on offer, the 40-day pre-Easter abstinence feels more like indulgence than penance. Here’s Athens Insider’s guide to n...
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Food of Love: A Guide to Lockdown Seduction
Hands up who’s in serious need of some next-level spoiling right now. ...
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Make a Post-lockdown Date with Athens’ only Kosher...
Do you know your Sambousak from your Sfoungato? Take a taste safari th...
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How we will be eating and drinking in 2021
Food and drink nursed so many of us through the endless endurance test that was 2020. But as our first anniversary of living with covid looms, how might our food fixations evolve over the coming year? From zero waste menus and cannabis cocktails to ingenious meat substitutes and robot servers, here are our hot predictions on what we’ll be...
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5 Easy Ways to bring Michelin Magic to your Table
Want to elevate your festive feast to a Michelin-worthy affair this year? Michelin-awarded chef Arnaud Bignon shares some simple creative hacks for dishing up a meal to remember, whatever your budget. A self-confessed chocolate lover, who dreams of ‘two straight nights of uninterrupted sleep,’ award-winning chef Arnaud Bignon lay ...
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Festive Greek wine pairings made easy
How to enhance your festive menu and balance the abundance of different tastes, textures and flavours without letting the wine underwhelm or outshine the meal? Panagiotis Fragkos, brand ambassador and co-owner of Vibo wine bistrot and bar and Amanda Kondinou, Sommelier, provide their sug...
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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 traditional...
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A croissanterie that promises pure butter, pure bliss at Praxitelous
For an appetising treat that balances buttery heft with feathery flake, look no further than Overoll. The secret is getting there early. A lockdown baby, this brand new croissanterie has its sweet and savoury flaky treats flying off its shelves. Angela Stamatiadou can’t have enough of the crescent-shaped buttery goodness! When...
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3 Best Musical Nostalgia Experiences in Athens
Insider shares our 3 favourite Athens venues where you can take a delightful journey of musical nostalgia, Greek-style. And with chilly evenings still upon us, now is the perfect time of year to cocoon yourself in one of these cosy dens, sit back, and escape to the soundtrack of the past, while enjoying a classic cocktail or memorable mea...
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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 Lockdown experience. How can you resist a liveried Matsuhisa delivery? Just because we are confined to our barracks, doesn’t mean you can’t treat yourself in the comfort of yo...
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Celebrate Thanksgiving in the comfort of your home with Hotel Grande Bretagne
This Thanksgiving, show gratitude and appreciation for the little pleasures in life in the comfort of your home, as the chefs at Hotel Grande Bretagne pull all the stops to curate a menu that you will indeed have a lot to be thankful for. Celebrate Thanksgiving in true American style in the comfort of your own home and enjoy a festive m...
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Tracing the Outstanding Olive to its Neolithic roots
What would life in Greece be like, without olives for eating and olive oil for cooking? Unimaginable. And that has been true since time immemorial - which means, for human beings, the Neolithic Age is 'when it all began to happen'. Archaeologist Holley Martlew – in praise of the olive. Did you know that olives in their native ...
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