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Feyrouz_Athens
4.8(6,031 reviews)
Two small shops in central Athens run by a family with roots in Antakya, one savoury and one sweet. Lahmacun, peynirli and lentil soup come off the counter.
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Κρίνος Λουκουμάδες
4.3(2,526 reviews)
The same work on Aiolou street for close to a century: loukoumades. Balls of dough fried, then brought to the table under honey and cinnamon.
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Τα Καραμανλίδικα του Φάνη
4.7(14,112 reviews)
A delicatessen and dining room in one on Evripidou street. The cooking of the Greeks who came from Anatolia: pastırma, sausage and cheeses.
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ΑΡΙΣΤΟΝ ΛΟΜΠΟΤΕΣΗΣ
4.5(1,342 reviews)
A pie shop on Voulis street, open for more than a century. The heart of it is the cheese pie in kourou pastry.
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Στάνη
4.7(4,521 reviews)
A shop near Omonia making dairy sweets since the 1930s. Yoghurt, rice pudding and honey, and the door opens early.
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ERGON House Athens
4.3(6,661 reviews)
Sophisticated hotel above a trendy marketplace & food court, plus free breakfast & Wi-Fi.
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GB Roof Garden
4.5(1,756 reviews)MediterraneanEuropeanEvery day 13:00 – 00:15
The eighth floor of the Hotel Grande Bretagne, above Syntagma. The Acropolis, Lycabettus and the Parliament in one view, and Mediterranean cooking under it.
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nice n easy
4.5(2,214 reviews)
A room on Omirou street that stays open through the day. Breakfast and coffee early, plates and cocktails later on.
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The Underdog® Flagship Store Thissio
4.2(4,060 reviews)
Sustainable coffee & all-day brunch offered in an airy, warehouse-style cafe that has a courtyard.
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Dionysos Zonar's
4.5(6,610 reviews)Every day 09:00 – 01:00
A glass-fronted building at the foot of the Acropolis, designed by Prokopis Vasiliadis in the early 1960s. The terrace looks onto the Odeon of Herodes Atticus.
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Ο Θανάσης κεμπάπ Μοναστηράκι
4.2(18,619 reviews)Every day 10:00 – 02:00
On Mitropoleos street in Monastiraki. Kebab turned over charcoal goes into flatbread, and the tables spill onto the pavement.
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Ατλαντικός
4.5(8,846 reviews)Every day 13:00 – 01:00
A fish place of a few tables in Psyrri. There is no menu, and what came in that day is shown at the counter and then fried.
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Νικήτας Ψυρρή
4.7(864 reviews)
An old corner taverna in Psyrri. The pot dishes come out at midday, and when they are finished the door closes.
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Τηλέμαχος Athens
4.6(3,387 reviews)
A steak house on Panepistimiou. The cuts are chosen at the case, and the grill works in the middle of the room.
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Hytra Restaurant & Bar
4.4(2,177 reviews)
Clever cooking in a sleek space with Acropolis views on the 6th floor of the Onassis arts center.
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Spondi
4.5(1,099 reviews)FrenchEuropeanEvery day 19:30 – 23:45
In a nineteenth-century house in Pangrati. A vaulted room and a courtyard, and a kitchen joining French technique to Greek produce.
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Varoulko Seaside Restaurant
4.6(5,141 reviews)Every day 13:00 – 00:00
On the edge of the fishing harbour at Piraeus. Lefteris Lazarou builds his kitchen on seafood, and the tables face the water.
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CTC Urban Gastronomy
4.7(1,439 reviews)
Alexandros Tsiotinis cooks in Kerameikos, sending out modern Greek plates in sequence. In the garden the tables sit under mature trees.
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Aleria
4.8(1,813 reviews)MediterraneanEuropean
Set in a 19th-century neoclassical mansion in Athens, this fine-dining restaurant offers a modern take on Greek and Mediterranean cuisine.
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Σουβλάκι Ο Κώστας 1950 συνταγμα
4.3(2,874 reviews)
A small counter near Syntagma, open since 1950. Souvlaki in flatbread, served under its tomato sauce.
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Εστιατόριο Οικονόμου
4.3(1,393 reviews)Every day 13:00 – 01:00
An old-style restaurant in Ano Petralona. The pots stand open in the kitchen, and you order by looking at them.
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Ροζαλία
4.5(7,653 reviews)
A taverna on Valtetsiou street in Exarchia. Tables sit in a courtyard under the vines, and the meze are carried round on a tray.
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Σεϋχέλλες
4.4(5,634 reviews)Every day 13:30 – 23:30
A taverna on Keramikou street in Metaxourgeio. The menu is written on a blackboard and changes every day.
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Delta Restaurant
4.4(693 reviews)
Inside the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, cooked by Giorgos Papazacharias and Thanos Feskos. Two Michelin stars, and a Green Star with them.
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Soil Restaurant
4.8(1,464 reviews)
A small dining room on a quiet Pangrati street. The menu is short and seasonal, and built on Greek produce.
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Nolan
4.4(1,281 reviews)JapaneseInternational
Just behind Syntagma, on Voulis street. Greek plates and Japanese ones sit side by side on the same menu.
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Papadakis Restaurant
4.4(983 reviews)
A dining room in Kolonaki that keeps to the sea cooking of the Greek islands. Fish and sea greens sit at the centre of the menu.
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Cookoovaya
4.4(3,326 reviews)Every day 13:00 – 00:00
Upscale, airy choice offering diverse seafood & meat dishes, plus small plates & wine.
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Acropolis Museum
4.7(84,656 reviews)
Designed by Bernard Tschumi and opened in 2009, this glass-rich museum displays Acropolis artefacts above an excavated ancient neighbourhood.
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National Archaeological Museum
4.6(38,853 reviews)
Greece's largest archaeological collection. The gold mask from Mycenae, the bronze pulled from the sea at Artemision, and the Antikythera mechanism.
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Museum of Cycladic Art
4.7(5,035 reviews)
Nicholas and Dolly Goulandris's collection opened here in 1986. Four floors of white Cycladic marble figures, with ancient Greek and Cypriot work beside them.
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Benaki Museum
4.7(7,964 reviews)
Antonis Benakis founded this museum in 1930 in his family's Athens house, and it now shows Greek art from prehistory through to the twentieth century.
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Byzantine and Christian Museum
4.6(5,038 reviews)
Founded in 1914 and set in the 1848 villa of the Duchess of Plaisance, this museum holds more than twenty-five thousand objects from the Christian East.
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National Garden of Athens
4.6(43,853 reviews)
Laid out for Queen Amalia between 1838 and 1840, this fifteen-hectare garden in central Athens holds hundreds of plant species along shaded walks.
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Stavros Niarchos Park
4.8(45,550 reviews)
A green slope laid over Renzo Piano's cultural centre. Mediterranean planting, walking paths, and a crest that looks out to the sea.
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Filopappou Hill
4.8(22,421 reviews)
The pine-shaded Hill of the Muses. The monument to Philopappos was raised on the summit in the 110s AD, and Pikionis laid the marble paths in the 1950s.
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Βοτανικός Κήπος Διομήδους
4.6(8,860 reviews)
Walled green space with trim flower beds, stepping stones across a lily pond, cafes & a playground.
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Πεδίον του Άρεως
4.1(12,048 reviews)Every day 06:00 – 22:30
A large park running along Leoforos Alexandras. Busts of the heroes of 1821 line the tree-shaded walks.
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The Clumsies
4.5(8,818 reviews)Every day 10:00 – 02:00
A neoclassical house on Praxitelous street. You move from room to room, and at the back sits a separate room for only a few.
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Baba au rum
4.6(4,822 reviews)
Open since 2009 in central Athens, this bar keeps more than four hundred rums behind it and mixes both tropical classics and its own recipes.
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Line Athens
4.4(2,619 reviews)Every day 10:00 – 02:00
A small bar on a narrow street in central Athens. Wine and cocktails side by side, and the room fills as the night goes on.
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heteroclito
4.6(1,024 reviews)
On a pedestrian street by the Metropolitan Cathedral since 2012. Over two hundred Greek labels, some twenty by the glass, with cheeses and house pies.
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Brettos
4.6(4,780 reviews)Every day 10:00 – 02:00
Founded in 1909, Athens' oldest distillery and bar is known for its colourful bottle wall and spirits made from old family recipes.
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Ρομάντσο
4.3(1,999 reviews)
In the building of a printworks that once produced a magazine. Studios, exhibitions and concerts now share the same floors.
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Death Disco
4.2(547 reviews)
A club on Ogygou Street in Psyri. The music is post punk, new wave, darkwave and the eighties.
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