Your green guide to vegan eating in Athens
Move over gyros, veg burgers and dairy-free ice-creams are here to stay. Millennial socio-entrepreneurs are creating a new culinary trend that ha...
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The Benaki Museum Café revisits a Berlin instituit...
Long a favourite of museum visitors and ladies-who-lunch, the Benaki M...
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Asia comes to Athens… Finally!
Athens doesn't have a China Town. It has something called China Town,...
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Athens’ coolest ice cream bars for hot summer nights
Looking for some really good ice-cream, Italian-styled gelato, sorbet or soft serve? Many tempting ice-cream parlours are determined to keep you busy this summer. From long-term favourites to attention-grabbing newcomers with a huge line-up of flavours boasting the provenance of their ingredients, we raise a cone to the Big Chill. Here’s...
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Celebrate Thanksgiving with majestic views of the Acropolis
What better setting to show gratitude and appreciation for the little pleasures in life than at the GB Roof Garden with the Acropolis in full view, the bustling city below and a specially-crafted Thanksgiving menu. Celebrate Thanksgiving at the GB Roof Garden Restaurant and enjoy a festive menu, exclusively created by Chef de ...
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In Love Again: Go ahead, eat your cocktail!
Thanos Prunarus nails it with the perfect antidote to all our decadent cravings at In Love Again - sinfully seductive sweets laced with cocktails, all in one tasty mouthful, crafted to perfection by Michalis Nourloglou. We’ve fallen head over heels in love with this inviting ‘coffee meets cocktail-inspired sweets and plants corner.’ As will...
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Nyx, inventive Japanese cuisine in Athens
Holding court atop the stylish Academias boutique hotel in the center of city, expect elegant Japanese fusion dishes and expertly blended cocktails at NYX. Revel in unencumbered views of the Acropolis, as melodic deep house music plays the soundtrack for an Athenian great night out, Elena Panayides notes. Flavour factor: Japan...
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Wines of Santorini: A taste journey into a fascinating volcanic terroir
Yiannis Karakasis’ new book explores one of Greece’s greater wine regions that produces intriguing whites with a mouth-watering acidity and mineral characteristics but also interesting reds born in the shadow of the volcano. Words by Angela Stamatiadou Wine writer, wine consultant and wine...
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French Wines and Their Greek Cousins
Tom Hall’s pursuit of the finer things in life brought him to the land that gave the world hedonism and still delivers on that early promise. In his quest to find contentment in the kitchens, bars and restaurants of Athens, he seeks a way into Greek wine via some of his French favourites and takes you on the journey with him. ...
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Hottest new Athens restaurant openings for 2021
[lead[ It has been a challenging year for the restaurant industry but you can always count on Athens restaurateurs to feed this city’s insatiable appetite for life. Killer views, vegan temples, French flair, Iberian shared plates, Cretan cuisine, Scandi-minimalism, meaty outposts - this year has been a great one for new, exciting and innovative ...
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Cooking In and Dining Out: A Hungry Englishman in Athens
Raised on the knee of an adventurous cook in rural Devon, Tom Hall developed a taste for the finer things in life. Cursed with a sultan’s palate and a student’s wallet he began studying historic gastronomy before realising that if he wanted to eat well, he’d have to make it himself. Various cooking, eating and drinking engagements later, ...
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Summer salad with Tomatoes, barley rusks, Feta, Anchovies and Herbs
Patisseur Stelios Parliaros shares a summer salad that hits just the right notes as temperatures soar! Ingredients: (10 servings) 4.4 lbs. (2kgs.) tomatoes 8.8 oz. (250 gr.) feta 1 bunch basil 1 bunch mint 1 bunch fresh coriander Lemon zest 7 oz. (200 gr.) cucumber 5 barley rusks Extra virgin Greek o...
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