The taverna is where Athens actually eats: basement koutoukia with wine from the barrel, cook shops by the central market, ouzeries and the old fish tavernas of Piraeus.
How to read this list. 205 places, grouped by area. Listed by shows which reputable guides recommend each place: that is our measure of popularity. We do not copy star ratings or opening hours from Google or Tripadvisor; the buttons open them live. Price bands appear only where a source gives one. Every entry was checked against its sources; the date each source was read, between 4 and 10 Oct 2026, is in the entry's Sources list. Places close and move, so tell us if something has changed.
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Paper on the tables, a barrel or two, the same dishes for decades. On 9 Oct 2026 Gastronomos, the food magazine of Kathimerini, picked nine old tavernas in and around the centre that have kept their character. Here they are on our map, each with its card, address, phone and sources. The summaries are in our own words.
Chosen by Gastronomos (Kathimerini): “9 παλιές ταβέρνες σταθερές αξιές, στο κέντρο και στα πέριξ”, by Nikoleta Makryonitou, Marina Petridou and Georgia Papastamou, published 9 Oct 2026, read 10 Oct 2026. Addresses and phones checked the same day on Χρυσός Οδηγός (xo.gr), Athinorama and the tavernas' own sites, as each card lists. Times and seasons change: call before you go.
Address: 104 Hatzikyriakou Avenue
A family fish taverna of about a dozen tables, known for shrimp saganaki, fried smelt and homemade orange cake.
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Address: 56 Akti Themistokleous
A seafront ouzeri looking over the Saronic Gulf, serving seafood meze such as sardines and shrimp in filo.
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Address: 126 Hatzikyriakou Avenue
A Piraeus institution since 1944 beside the Naval Academy, with a tiny menu of fried shrimp and small red fish.
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Address: 8 Herakliou, Profitis Elias
A hilltop family fish taverna dating from 1957 with a balcony over Mikrolimano; known for kakavia fish soup.
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Address: 72 Platonos, Keratsini
A fish taverna run by two keen fishermen and popular with local fish traders.
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Address: 107 Chatzikyriakou Avenue
An honest family taverna run by islanders from Symi, cooking mussels saganaki and tiny fried Symi shrimp.
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Address: 48 Marias Hatzikyriakou
A former sea captain's seafood meze place in an old warehouse full of ocean liner memorabilia.
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Address: Psaron 38 and Salaminos, Piraeus
Open since 1920 and barely changed: mosaic floor, a wooden icebox from 1938 and retsina from the barrel, once a haunt of Tsitsanis and Kazantzidis. A short menu of five or six dishes such as meatballs, liver and offal, fava, and tomato with oregano and olives.
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Address: Akti Themistokleous 344, Piraeus
Tables a few metres from the waves on the Piraiki coast road, serving only fresh Greek fish from partner boats. Grilled octopus and seafood pasta with lobster bisque are the dishes to know, with the sunset over the Saronic Gulf thrown in.
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Address: Κατσούλη Ιωάννη 77, Καμίνια
A tavern born during the Occupation and rebuilt in 1944, now a cookhouse with few tables and many pot dishes such as cabbage dolmades with egg and lemon sauce, soutzoukakia and red sauce veal, with house wine from Nemea and Tyrnavos.
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Address: Σκρα 19, Καστέλα, Πειραιάς
A few tables in a quiet Kastella side street where Mrs Maria cooks big cut tomatoes with caper leaves and samphire, prawns in a peppery citrus sauce and very soft Chios octopus, while Mr Kostas grills the fresh fish.
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Address: Komotinis 37
A much loved Kaminia taverna that keeps the wine barrels of its grocery past, serving fresh langoustines, fried squid, boiled greens, fava and hand cut chips in big portions.
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Old Piraeus grocery turned bakalotaverna with mosaic floors and shelves of dry goods, serving wine from the jug, tomato salad, hand cut fries with fried eggs and crisp meatballs.
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Address: Ίδης 8, Πειραιάς
Much loved Kastella grill taverna run by a family, unchanged for decades, with simple tables and a big window, known for juicy lamb chops, proper kokoretsi and fluffy biftekia with hand cut fries and tzatziki.
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Address: Κιλκίς 6, Πειραιάς
Piraeus grill taverna lighting its charcoal for meat lovers for almost half a century, known for mutton, tender lamb chops, spit roasts, kebab and lamb offal on the grill.
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Address: 9 Sokratous
A basement koutouki behind the central market with wine barrels on the walls and a few rustic dishes a day, such as chickpea soup and small fried fish.
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Address: 4 Filopimenous
A lunchtime cook shop inside the meat hall of the central market, with dishes on show in big pans and several soups a day.
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Deli and taverna in one, serving Anatolian Greek specialities such as pastirma and spicy sausage with Greek cheeses.
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Address: 38 Emmanouil Benaki
A vintage ouzeri of more than sixty years for small fry, grilled octopus and ladotiri cheese from Lesvos.
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Address: 63 Emmanouil Benaki
A relaxed Cretan eatery that greets you with raki and serves island meze such as small pies, snails and staka cream.
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A family run Cretan place for raki, small plates and rebetiko nights, with street tables on Saturday market day.
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Address: Valtetsiou 58 or 59, Exarcheia (two 2026 sources give different numbers)
A long standing Exarcheia taverna with a green, leafy courtyard that makes the city centre feel far away. Monopoli names it as the summer stop before or after a film at the Riviera open air cinema across the street.
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Address: Ζωοδόχου Πηγής 50, Εξάρχεια
A simple meze joint in Exarcheia since 1984, with fried small fish, baked potato, spicy bouyiourdi, kavourmas omelette, meatballs and vegetables from the Kallidromiou farmers market.
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Address: Ymittou 253 and Vinkelman 3, Agios Artemios, Pangrati
Phone: +302107017404
A basement koutouki with live folk and rebetiko music, wine from stacked barrels and grilled lamb chops.
Seasonal: open from October to June, as Kathimerini's profile says; the date it reopens for the 2026 to 2027 season was not confirmed when we checked.
One of Gastronomos' nine old tavernas that never change
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Address: Polemonos 4, Pangrati
Phone: +302107236903
A humble long running taverna for casseroles and grilled meat, with murals by the caricaturist Doris on the walls.
One of Gastronomos' nine old tavernas that never change
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Address: Damareos, Pangrati, Athens
Chef owner Stratos Vlassopoulos cooks over a wood fire and on a traditional masina wood stove.
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Address: Aminta 6, Plateia Proskopon, Pangrati, Athens
Self described rogue taverna led by chef and co founder Michalis Merzenis: modern Greek sharing plates, natural wines, vinyl and a garden.
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Address: Amvrosiou Plyta 1, Gouva, Athens
Urban taverna and grill on Agios Artemios square run by alumni of Cookoovaya and Akra, known for graviera pie cooked over charcoal, rich tomato braised goat with crisp fries, mutton chops and a warm galaktoboureko served with kaimaki ice cream.
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Address: Pafsaniou 4, Pangrati, Athens
A Pangrati taverna that has kept the same character for decades: wine barrels inside, a courtyard full of families at weekends, and lamb chops and biftekia from the grill.
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Address: Αρχελάου 15
A small mageireio cooking homestyle dishes every day, from salads, stews and pulses to meat, fish and pasta, to eat in at a few tables or take away.
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Address: Ιβύκου 7, Παγκράτι
A rare fish taverna in Pangrati, above the cocktail bars of Ivykou, serving fried mussels, picarel, anchovies and salt cod with chips and retsina.
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Address: Ευφράνορος 35, Παγκράτι
A new kafeneio on Effranoros street with sea coloured tables and classic meze such as meatballs, potatoes with eggs, aubergine dip, dolmades and kagiana; at night it feels like an Ikaria festival.
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Address: Φρύνωνος 10, Παγκράτι
A budget friendly meze spot in a pink neoclassical house on Frynonos in Pangrati, with red chairs on a wide pavement, dakos, marinated red mullet, pork chops and smoked Syros cheese.
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Address: Αρχιμήδους 11, Μετς
A well known taverna now run by the third generation, on the Pagkrati and Mets border, with a pretty courtyard and both classic and newer dishes such as fava, lemony rabbit and kontosouvli.
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Address: Kydantidon 32 and Troon 41, Ano Petralona
Phone: +302103467555
A taverna dating from 1930 that cooks 15 to 20 pot dishes fresh each day; known for okra and stuffed cabbage.
One of Gastronomos' nine old tavernas that never change
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Address: 41 Kydantidon
A busy neighbourhood taverna for good value seafood, creamy taramosalata and courgette fritters, with tables under bitter orange trees.
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Address: Kydantidon 39, Ano Petralona, Athens
Homely taverna from Giannis Roumanos built on produce from small Greek producers, cooking village style dishes such as cabbage dolmades, soutzoukakia and rooster braised in wine with pasta, plus trout from the charcoal grill, at friendly prices.
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Address: Aioleon 40, Petralona, Athens
Petralona's home cook since 1991, back in the neighbourhood after a spell in Kerameikos. Mosaic floor and flowers on every table; Greek cooking such as kid slow baked in parchment with white wine, honey and wild thyme, plus comfort dishes from other kitchens like gnocchi with salmon and gorgonzola.
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Address: Troon 43, Petralona, Athens
Nearly three decades in Petralona with meze for the middle of the table: bougiourdi, meatballs, grilled mastelo cheese, skewers, octopus and shrimps, with ouzo and tsipouro bottled or from the barrel, and a bill that stays down to earth.
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Address: Koilis 20 (corner of Dimofontos), Petralona, Athens
A classic taverna in a stone Athenian house with wooden windows, tables set all around it. Potatoes with kasseri, fava, pastourma pie, talagani and eggs with pastourma and potatoes to start, then mostly meat; packed with groups at weekends.
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Address: Aithras 1, Athens
A modern kafeneio in an open, easy space looking towards Technopolis, open from morning to night. Greek meze for sharing and fuller plates built on small producers, with ouzo, tsipouro, wine and a few chosen beers.
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Address: Ylleon 3, Petralona, Athens
A meze taverna with kafeneio tables on the pedestrian street beside Petralona station, cooking the dishes of Constantinople. Hunkar begendi, beef in tomato over a smoky aubergine puree, is the dish to order, with eggs and soutzouki, kavourmas saganaki and a mizithra pie with honey to finish.
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Address: Δωριέων 8
Taverna near the Petralona metro station with a whitewashed Cycladic style courtyard, known for tomato fritters, Santorini fava, homemade pies and mixed grills for groups.
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A basement taverna famous for its namesake dish, fried salt cod with skordalia garlic dip.
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A basement taverna among wine barrels serving homely classics such as soutzoukakia, moussaka and papoutsakia.
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Address: Pl. Theatrou 2
Phone: +302103216629
A family run taverna dating from 1927, known for evenings of live Greek music and a mixed grill platter.
Sources differ on the year it opened: 1927 (Time Out, and the year xo.gr gives), 1880 (Gastronomos, 9 Oct 2026); the taverna's own site says over seventy years.
One of Gastronomos' nine old tavernas that never change
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Address: 19 Agion Anargyron
A family run taverna in the same spot for over 50 years, cooking seasonal home dishes such as soutzoukakia and gemista.
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Address: Sarri 35, Psiri, Athens
A Psiri tavern that opened in spring 2026 and sticks to honest Athenian taverna cooking, adding a few creative touches instead of gourmet tricks. A basement cellar holds a long list of Greek wines and spirits, while the kitchen turns out lamb patties with Florina pepper sauce and feta cream, Black Angus flap steak souvlaki, grilled gardoubakia and oregano lamb.
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Address: Dekeleon Street
A basement cook shop with Constantinople inspired dishes such as lamb baked in paper, and clarinet music on some Sundays.
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An unfussy corner taverna with white tablecloths and a short seasonal menu, run by a chef and a sommelier.
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Address: Chatzichristou 12, Athens 117 42
A tiny family run kitchen with no fixed menu, cooking simple home style food a few minutes from the Acropolis Museum.
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A creative meze house cooking a changing seasonal menu of small plates to share.
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Address: Kodratou 18, Metaxourgeio, Athens
Meze place in a former art printing works that ran in the neighbourhood from 1977; traditional cooking with a light French touch, daily stews, mushroom risotto and freshly cut fries.
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Address: Megalou Alexandrou 117, Metaxourgeio, Athens
Meze place with a pretty courtyard and rebetiko music, cooking Greek food with a strong Cretan accent: handmade dolmadakia with yoghurt, Sfakia pie and makarounes with mushrooms.
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Address: Leonidou 46 and Myllerou 25, Metaxourgeio, Athens
Historic taverna that was an artists' haunt in Kypseli in the 1980s and now cooks traditional Greek food in a stone building near Avdi Square that has housed a wine and cookhouse since 1933.
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Small plates inspired by Russia and Pontus in a student kafeneio atmosphere, with properly good food and a raki the writer says not to miss.
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A sociable meze spot with tables outside, plenty of raki and a soft spot for meat meze such as grilled soutzoukakia and yogurt kebab.
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A place for raki and wine with meze, for example chylopites with hourma.
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Cheap meze and often live music, with a crowd of cool thirtysomethings.
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Address: Οδυσσέως 16
Meze spot on Metaxourgeio square under a retro jeans shop sign, with braised mutton with pappardelle, pastourma pie with hand rolled pastry, dolmades and chickpeas with aubergine.
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Address: 9 Anapafseos, 116 36
An old fashioned cafe, ouzeri and taverna near the First Cemetery, with big portions and daily cooked dishes on show.
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Address: 1 Ntourm
A modern take on the taverna, strong on seafood, with a daily changing, fairly priced menu near the street market.
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Address: Pitheou 32, Neos Kosmos, Athens 117 43
Greek kitchen running since 2011 on a pedestrian street a short walk from Agios Ioannis metro; Time Out's lunch pick for the area.
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Address: Ilia Iliou 28, Neos Kosmos, Athens
Modern gastro taverna rooted in Greek and Mediterranean cooking, with a strong focus on meat and well chosen cuts alongside comforting home style dishes.
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Address: Ντουρμ 1 & Κασομούλη 6 to 8
Modern taverna in the Dourgouti area with an open kitchen, where chef Dimitris Dimitriadis cooks a seasonal Greek menu, known for goat pasta, liver and an old style almond pasta.
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Address: 2 Themistokleous
A meze house founded in 1932 with tiled floors and marble tables, and a long menu of seafood meze.
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Address: Lykourgou 9, Omonia, Athens
Big hearted taverna in the former Athinaion cookhouse on a lane off Omonia, with a retro look that plays on the room's past; Athinorama called it the hit of the season in January 2026.
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A family run taverna that began in 1956 as a builders' wine haunt, still lined with barrels; known for lamb chops and hand cut chips.
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Address: Salaminias 8 to 10, Votanikos
Phone: +302103464167
A koutouki style taverna in the same place since 1928, with wooden barrels and food that recalls interwar Athens.
One of Gastronomos' nine old tavernas that never change
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Address: 22 Lekka
A small seafood spot in an arcade; the owner buys fish at the central market daily and closes when it runs out.
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Address: 16 Elpidos
A nautical themed ouzeri with fish from Kymi and Skyros, unusual meze and around 16 ouzo labels.
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Address: Megalou Alexandrou 114, Kerameikos, Athens
Modern meze place from Marina Chrona of Rini, mixing international small plates with about 70 Greek wine labels and classic cocktails.
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Address: Kerameikou 110 and Sfaktirias 20, Kerameikos, Athens
A meze place with a lovely hidden courtyard on the Metaxourgeio side of Kerameikos, serving a short but strong menu of Greek produce in creative pairings. Standouts include chickpea salad with smoked trout, striftadia pasta with pecorino and portobello mushrooms, and a juicy beef liver souvlaki.
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Address: Σφακτηρίας 24
A small blue and white ouzeri on a hidden pedestrian street, serving simple fish and seafood meze with catch brought from Tinos.
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Address: Leoforos Poseidonos 17, Vouliagmeni
New take on the classic Greek taverna a few metres from the sea, built around open fire cooking of different meat cuts by chef Giannis Bampalis.
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Address: Leoforos Poseidonos 20, Vouliagmeni
Long running fish taverna above the sea, with a traditional dining room, good fish and meze with a Constantinople touch; easy with children.
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Address: Kyprou 70, Vyronas, Athens
Gastro kafeneio and meze house run by chef Ilias Skoulas, with flavours from Smyrna and Constantinople and home style cooking at friendly prices, such as bouyiourdi, hand rolled dolmades, spetsofai and beef kokkinisto with orzo, plus live music on Saturdays.
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Address: Επταλόφου 88, Βύρωνας 16233
Casual Greek grill house with good meat and big portions, whose biftekia the writer rates among the best in the city.
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Address: Ελευθερίου Βενιζέλου 2 (πλατεία Αγίου Λαζάρου), Βύρωνας
Neighbourhood grill house on Agios Lazaros square that Vyronas locals swear by, praised for fast service, a good spit and grill, mutton chops, juicy liver, pork fillet and a much loved kontosouvli.
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Address: Xanthippou 10, Kolonaki, Athens
Chef Adam Kontovas's Asian taverna in the former Nikkei space, where tzatziki meets kimchi, cabbage dolmades come with prawns and a tofu take on egg and lemon sauce, and makarounes are tossed with minced duck, with cocktails by Konstantinos Gkionis of Jazz in Jazz.
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Address: Ithomis 20 and Moreos, Ano Glyfada, Athens
Neighbourhood taverna run by Haris Tzitzis, known for trays and pots of home style cooking such as cabbage dolmades in egg and lemon sauce, flour dusted salt cod with skordalia, oven kokoretsi and rooster with Karpathos pasta.
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Address: Cheimarras 10, Ano Glyfada
A family meat taverna that has kept the charcoal going since 2001, run by a mother, father and their two children from Neapoli near Agrinio. Expect milk fed veal chops, mutton burgers, lamb chops, kokoretsi and kontosouvli, newer big cuts such as tomahawk and rib eye, and grilled halloumi and talagani on the side. Busy and loud at weekends.
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Address: Φοίβης 11 & Αγγ. Μεταξά 34
A modern meze house in central Glyfada with a courtyard and a warm rustic room, serving sharing plates that move between tradition and invention, such as shrimp giouvetsi, smoked aubergine with feta and balsamic, mushrooms with graviera and grilled sea bream, with ouzo, tsipouro or wine.
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Address: Φιλικής Εταιρίας & Λαοδίκης 22
A modern taverna and meze place dressed like an old grocery shop, sister to the original in Agia Varvara, with comfort dishes such as Cretan carbonara with apaki, homestyle meatballs, minced meat pie with Greek cheeses and eggs with potatoes and soutzouki or pastourma, plus draught beer.
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Address: Λαζαράκη 63, Γλυφάδα
A roomy Cretan taverna with a big dining hall and a raised terrace, cooking kalitsounia with greens or cheese, snails, apaki, pork with leeks, kid with stamnagathi and wedding pilaf, with live music on Saturdays and Sundays and loukoumades on the house.
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Address: Παλμύρας 2
A fish taverna that has fed the southern suburbs for more than twenty years, known for its kakavia fish soup and seafood meze such as sea urchin salad, steamed razor clams, smoked eel, shrimp saganaki and live crayfish, with a long list of ouzo.
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Address: Λεωφ. Κωνσταντίνου Αθάνατου 18, Άνω Γλυφάδα
A plain, spotless neighbourhood kafeneio in Ano Glyfada where locals meet for meze, a chat or a football match, with classics such as tirokafteri, kagiana, giant beans, kebab, pork tigania, sausage and pancetta, and halva on the house at the end.
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Address: Γ. Γεννηματά 105 & Αν. Ρωμυλίας 125, Άνω Γλυφάδα
A long running, good value raki and meze house on a busy shopping street of Ano Glyfada, with grilled apaki, pork tigania, cheese skaltsounia, pork baked in parchment, dakos and feta with sesame and honey, flaming rakomelo and, on some nights, live Cretan music.
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Address: Ventiri 5, Ilisia, Athens
A grill house run by a butcher and roaster who cuts the meat at the counter and grills it on the spot. Lamb and mutton chops, mutton patties and offal such as fried brains and kidneys are the draw, and it gets loud at weekends.
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Address: Maiandrou 15, Ilisia, Athens
Taverna that buys carefully and cooks with restraint: lamb chops from Agrinio, fried giant beans with greens and a tomato skordalia, pies and daily dishes, eaten inside by a retro green kitchen or outside facing a small park.
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Address: Aiginitou 32, Ilisia
A taverna running since 1967 beside a flight of steps on a quiet Ilisia slope, known for grilled meats such as lamb chops and steaks, with a green pergola for outdoor tables.
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Address: Ευφρονίου 47, Ιλίσια
A Cretan kitchen run by Manolis Romanakis on the edge of Ilisia and Kaisariani, in a bright white room, serving sautéed greens with anthotyro, oven roasted lamb ofto with village potatoes and pasta cooked in a rich lamb broth, with raki and Cretan wines to drink.
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Address: Plateia Anagenniseos 2, Kaisariani, Athens
A meze house on the main Kaisariani square since 1993, run since December 2023 by two people from the arts. Classic spreads, fritters and grills, with a house beef patty topped with melted Roquefort as the dish regulars ask for.
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Address: Ανακρέοντος 2, Καισαριανή
A taverna hidden in a Kaisariani side street since 1954, with a courtyard of lemon trees; known for thinly cut lamb chops and recipes with Asia Minor and Constantinople roots such as soutzoukakia, cabbage dolmades and dolmadakia with egg and lemon sauce.
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A stone kiosk in the Hymettus aesthetic forest above Kaisariani where people stop in the shade for cheap, simple home cooking such as meatballs, spetsofai, giant beans and spinach pie.
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Address: Vasilissis Sofias and Koimiseos tis Theotokou 4, Marousi
An old taverna whose story goes back to 1948, with a village style courtyard that comes alive in summer. The menu is home cooking, from egg and lemon chicken soup and giouvarlakia to moussaka, pastitsio and grilled meats.
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Address: Leoforos Kifisias 70 and Parnonos, Marousi
A traditional Greek taverna with a story that starts in Mani in 1967 and one of the prettiest spaces in the neighbourhood. Daily stews and oven dishes share the menu with mint scented meatballs, fava and burgers from the grill.
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Address: Chaimanta 34, Marousi, Athens
A country style taverna between Pefki and Marousi with serious spit and grill cooking. Kontosouvli, kokoretsi, gardoumpa, milk fed veal with oven potatoes and lamb on the spit.
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Address: Πεύκων 10, Μαρούσι
Old style Marousi taverna under pine trees beside a stream, making all its meze daily in generous portions for about 20 euros a head, known for veal liver, stuffed patties and its namesake pot dish of pork, mushrooms and cream.
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Address: Aidiniou 55, Nea Smyrni
A no frills meat taverna near the Panionios ground, known for big portions: lamb chops in heaps, burgers plain or stuffed, pork fillet, liver and chops, with a punchy tzatziki and loukoumades or semolina halva on the house.
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Address: Agias Sofias 91, Nea Smyrni
A down to earth grill house where everything from the grill is served on greaseproof paper: pork or beef patties, chicken fillet, pork kontosouvli and eggs with sausage and chips. Dishes of the day such as stuffed vegetables and pastitsio fill out the menu.
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Address: Leoforos Eleftheriou Venizelou 88, Nea Smyrni
A friendly meze place that gives traditional recipes a clever twist: skioufichta pasta with staka butter, Naxos graviera saganaki with quince, mushrooms with mavrodafni wine and fried meatballs in tomato sauce. A small playground sits right in front, which makes it easy with children.
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Address: Thrakis 1, Nea Smyrni
A family taverna and a fixture for meat lovers, with generous plates: burgers from mince prepared on the spot, pork fillet, pork and beef chops, crispy pork belly, and kontosouvli as a Friday extra.
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Address: Agias Foteinis 19, Nea Smyrni
A meze place in a restored building beside the Estia park in Nea Smyrni, serving home style meze, grilled meats, dishes of the day and tsipouro from Tyrnavos. There is live music on Saturday nights.
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Address: Agiou Alexandrou 58, Palaio Faliro
A traditional Cretan meze place where the raki keeps coming. Go for fried eggs with staka, vinegar cured village sausage, Sfakia pies, fennel pies, apaki and skioufichta pasta with staka and xinomyzithra; tables move outside in summer.
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Address: Alkyonis 77, Palaio Faliro
A much loved taverna with an island style courtyard. Specials include a hanging souvlaki, Constantinople style kebab and pork cooked in a sack, with fennel pie, pastourma pie and aubergine souffle on the side.
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Address: Konstantinou Palaiologou 1, Palaio Faliro
A long running seafood place with eye catching aquariums and a kitchen that mixes classic and more inventive plates: bouillabaisse, marinated anchovies, white taramosalata, grilled octopus with fava, salt cod with skordalia and linguine with langoustine.
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Address: Achaion 38, Palaio Faliro
A neighbourhood taverna on a quiet side street with a history going back to 1961. Home style cooking runs from kebab, moussaka and pastitsio to salt cod with skordalia, shrimp pasta and snails stifado.
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Address: Endymionos 4, Palaio Faliro
A relaxed neighbourhood meze place that opened in autumn 2025, with a short, fairly priced menu of meze and dishes of the day, house wine and tsipouro. The walls are covered with joke photos of the imaginary aunt Soula, and some nights have live music.
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Address: Ναϊάδων 49
A fish taverna that is always busy, good for grilled sardine fillets, fish soup and fried cod.
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Address: Doukissis Plakentias 14, Chalandri
A modern meze place in an atmospheric detached house with a large garden on Doukissis Plakentias, serving classic, well loved flavours with a contemporary touch.
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Address: Karella 20, Chalandri
A neighbourhood grill house and butcher's taverna with a courtyard, where butcher Ilias Konstantopoulos and chef Argyris Aglamisis cook everything over charcoal and embers: lamb, beef, mutton and wild boar cuts, kontosouvli, chops, burgers, liver and kokoretsi, plus dishes of the day.
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Address: Irakleitou 54, Chalandri
A family run seafood meze taverna with an old time look and a courtyard for sunny days. Fish, shellfish and starters are made to order from a long menu, and the homemade lemon pie is a good way to finish.
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Address: Epidavrou 55, Chalandri
A grill taverna with a colourful courtyard that feels like a village, a warm family atmosphere and big portions made for groups. Monopoli rates its mixed grill platter among the best in Athens, alongside souvlaki, craft beers, newer daily stews and dishes for fasting days.
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Address: Φιλικής Εταιρείας 25, Χαλάνδρι
A cook house taverna running since 1946, loved for its oven dishes and summer vegetable stews eaten in a shady yard. Booking is needed at weekends.
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Address: Fokionos Negri 47, Kypseli, Athens
Skyros flavours on Fokionos Negri, in the old Vlassis spot: somewhere between an ouzeri and seafood street food. Cuttlefish with chickpeas, calamarata with mascarpone and raisins, octopus with bulgur and tyrokafteri with herring, with Greek and organic wines.
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Address: Ostrovou 1, Ano Kypseli, Athens
A recent arrival in Ano Kypseli that has quickly won fans for tasty small plates at fair prices. The short menu is full of Greek flavours, from courgettes with Naxos xinomyzithra and fennel pies to handmade dolmades, Chios mastelo cheese and baked potato with Sitia xygalo.
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Address: Eptanisou 15, Agiou Georgiou Square, Kypseli
A ten year old fixture of Agiou Georgiou Square with creative Greek sharing plates such as Lesvos cheese pies with mint and honey, grilled liver and a lamb patty, plus a refreshed Greek wine list.
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Address: Eptanisou 18, Agiou Georgiou Square, Kypseli
A friendly meze house on Agiou Georgiou Square that works with produce from local growers, serving spicy cheese dip, feta in filo, pork tigania and Greek style pasta dishes.
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Address: Evelpidon 87, Kypseli
A busy neighbourhood meze house with homemade pastourma pies, courgette fritters, fried seafood and daily pots such as bean soup, all made for sharing over tsipouro.
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Address: Agias Zonis 43, Kypseli
Tables under a huge plane tree on Agias Zonis, open from the morning, with meze such as Santorini fava and courgette fritters plus grilled meats and fried seafood.
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Address: 11 Filotimou & 57 Aiglis St., Kypseli
A recent modern meze place with a retro look and a stork carrying a plate as its logo, serving tabbouleh with black raisins, glazed pork chops and veal with aubergine, backed by a strong wine and spirits list.
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Address: Evergetou Giavasi 11, Agia Paraskevi, Athens
A modern tsipouradiko with big wooden tables, boat themed decor and a long list of ouzo, tsipouro and Greek spirits. Marinated anchovy, lakerda, trout with fava and shrimp orzotto are among the plates the source picks.
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Address: Leoforos Mesogeion 366, Agia Paraskevi, Athens
Cretan cooking with tables inside and, in summer, on the square opposite. The wedding pilaf with zygouri (called Kaplanogiorgis pilaf here), Messara courgette fritters, lamb ofto and makarounes with beef.
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Address: Eirinis 56, Agia Paraskevi, Athens
A plain neighbourhood grill taverna with a gravel courtyard for summer. Charcoal burgers, lamb chops, hand cut chips and kontosouvli.
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Address: Peloponnisou 75, Agia Paraskevi, Athens
A wine and grill house known across the northern suburbs for its lamb chops, served by the fireplace in winter. Kokoretsi, pork belly, shoulder steak and chicken kontosouvli also feature.
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Address: Plateia Koraï 7, Agia Paraskevi, Athens
A newer tsipouradiko from the team behind Ta Romanakia and Figo Pasta Bar, built around Volos style tsipouro rounds. Handmade tyrokafteri, steamed mussels, fish croquettes, cod with potato salad and grilled bream or sea bass.
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Address: Boumpoulinas 31, Agia Paraskevi
A grill taverna on a side street since 1967, known for lamb chops, kokoretsi, hand cut chips and a house patty wrapped in caul fat with feta and tomato.
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Address: Γοργοποτάμου 6, Τσακός, 153 41 Αγία Παρασκευή
Long running grill taverna with a gravel courtyard for summer and a warm dining room in winter, known for lamb chops, lamb offal, burgers and kontosouvli, with crisp battered courgettes and a properly garlicky tzatziki.
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Address: Karpathou 22, Kifisia, Athens
One of the best known tavernas of the northern suburbs, cooking for more than 40 years, with a neat little courtyard in summer. Beef giouvetsi in a clay pot, rooster with thick pasta, lemony gardoumpakia, grilled patties and daily home style stews come with its own barrel wine.
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Address: Elpidos 24, Nea Kifisia, Athens
Despite the French sounding name, a traditional Greek taverna with a garden for summer and a warm dining room for winter. Beef cheeks with pasta, calf's liver, a pie of wild greens and herbs, wood oven aubergines and dishes of the day fill the menu.
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Address: Κύρου 7, Στροφύλη, 145 64 Κηφισιά
Family taverna in a leafy garden courtyard, at the same Kifisia spot since 1975 and run by the founder's son, known for its house specialities of Constantinople style hunkar begendi, oven kokoretsi, lamb kleftiko in parchment and a crayfish croquette, plus a daily pie with homemade pastry, grills and a summer fish counter.
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Address: Drakou 10, Koukaki, Athens
A simple Cretan taverna on busy Drakou Street with wooden tables and the whole menu chalked up on a big blackboard. Cretan salad with rock samphire, a lamb and mizithra meat pie, potatoes with staka and eggs, wedding pilaf and grilled mutton come with plenty of wine.
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Address: Dimitrakopoulou 18, Koukaki, Athens
An old taverna renewed without losing the feel and flavours of another era, cooking home style Greek food. Greens salad with black eyed beans and pistachios, baked feta, oven lamb with greens, fried meatballs, moussaka and squid stuffed with bulgur are on the menu.
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Address: Γενναίου Κολοκοτρώνη 66
Long running Athens taverna with a gravel courtyard full of trees and jasmine, best known for its classic roast beef with thick spaghetti and a menu that keeps adding dishes.
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Address: Pellis 22, Votanikos, Athens
One of the most popular hangouts in Votanikos, with tables out on the pedestrian street that fill up over raki and small plates. Dishes include gnocchi with aged pancetta and graviera cream, slow cooked beef ragu with lasagne, trahanas with squid and Aegina pistachio, and kebab with smoked yoghurt.
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Address: Iera Odos 102A (inside the P.O.N. grounds)
A seafood ouzeri with original fish dishes built on good produce; its Votanikos branch sits off the radar inside the navy supply club grounds.
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Address: Ηρακλειδών 3, Αθήνα 118 51
A meze restaurant in a neoclassical house on the Irakleidon pedestrian street, cooking Greek dishes with a modern twist since 1997, with a courtyard used through the day.
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Address: Thessalonikis 7, Thiseio
Phone: +302103422407
A classic Thiseio grill where thin, tender lamb chops are the star, with simple sides such as a village salad with charred bread, hand cut chips, fava and fried courgettes. One family runs two branches with the same name and menu on the same pedestrian stretch.
A second branch at Eptachalkou 5, Thiseio, phone +302103458052, is listed by xo.gr and by the taverna's own site.
One of Gastronomos' nine old tavernas that never change
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Address: Mantzagriotaki 103, Kallithea 176 76
A meze place on the pedestrian street opposite Kallithea town hall, open since 2014, known for home style meze, grilled meats, seafood meze and a handmade pastourma pie.
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Address: Αριστείδου 62
A tucked away Cretan kafeneio serving traditional meze with plenty of raki.
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Address: Peisistratou 11
A fish taverna grilling the day's catch over charcoal, bought from three fish markets; guests are often invited into the kitchen to choose, and the fish soup and homemade lakerda are favourites.
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Address: Minoos 11 to 13
A taverna reached down a short flight of steps, which the source recommends for lamb fries.
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Address: Παναγή Τσαλδάρη 157, Καλλιθέα
A long running meze place in Kallithea that reopened with a refreshed room in greens and black and white check, a new menu of sharing plates and its trademark motorbike still on show; the relaunch party was on 28 September 2026.
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Address: Ξενοφώντος 155, Καλλιθέα 176 74
A modern neighbourhood taverna in Kallithea with a leafy courtyard for summer and a wood lined room for winter, cooking Greek dishes with a twist, such as pork with tomato jam, skioufichta with mushrooms and fava with apaki, plus changing dishes of the day.
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Address: Αριστείδου Οικονόμου 12, Κάτω Πατήσια
Phone: +302108327381
An old taverna of about 45 years near the Liosion bus terminals, known for spit roasted kokoretsi, kontosouvli and lamb.
One of Gastronomos' nine old tavernas that never change
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Address: Gavriilidou 24, Ano Patisia
Phone: +302102022358
A stone built neighbourhood taverna running since 1975, praised for crisp, juicy lamb chops and home style pots such as stuffed vine leaves in egg and lemon sauce, snails and beef stifado.
Sources differ on the year it opened: 1975 (Gastronomos, Feb and Apr 2026), 1974 (Gastronomos, 9 Oct 2026).
One of Gastronomos' nine old tavernas that never change
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Address: Ηρ. Πολυτεχνείου 85, Ηλιούπολη
A family taverna open since 1966 with a short menu, best known for its grilled burgers and lamb chops; tables are few, so book ahead.
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Address: Πανταζή 56, Ηλιούπολη
A simple neighbourhood taverna run by a cook from Schinoussa, serving seafood meze such as crayfish, sea urchin linguine and fish dolmades, with tables by a small park in summer.
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Address: Σκόπα 11
Neighbourhood kafeneio turned meze place, open about ten years, known for light fried dishes, grills, daily stews and screens for football and basketball nights.
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Address: Μαρίνου Αντύπα 93
Cretan meze place with tables on a tree lined pedestrian street, cooking family recipes from Ierapetra such as mizithra pies, kalitsounia, snails, apaki and raki with thyme honey.
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Address: Ανδρέα Παπανδρέου 9, Ηλιούπολη 16345
Meze place that opened in July 2025, with a small courtyard, Greek small plates and drinks, which the writer made a regular haunt.
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Address: Κωστή Παλαμά 28
A welcoming seafood taverna for grilled octopus, shrimp pasta in red sauce and fresh fish of the day.
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Address: Αδριανείου 31
A meze place with an old taverna feel, good for fava, fried courgette sticks, pastirma and pan fried calf liver with cumin.
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Address: Μπουμπουλίνας και Ν. Παρίτση
A modern taverna with a garden that cooks Karpathos recipes such as small greens pies, alongside tomato fritters and slow cooked meats.
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Address: Λεωφ. Αγίου Δημητρίου 120
A taverna in a farmhouse from 1900 with two courtyards and two fireplaces, known for its pork kontosouvli, which needs booking ahead.
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Address: Μεταμορφώσεως 2, Άγιος Δημήτριος
Traditional neighbourhood taverna with a green courtyard and an open kitchen, good value with big portions, known for its grills, especially juicy mutton chops, plus eggs with Cretan staka and fries and a spicy baked bouyiourdi.
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Address: Ρεθύμνης 4
A nostalgic little taverna with checked tablecloths that pairs Cretan cooking with grilled meats; regulars come for the gamopilafo, the snails in red sauce and the raki with loukoumades on the house.
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Address: Καλλιθέας 32
A meze house with a courtyard used all year round, heated in winter, serving plates for sharing such as cheese croquettes with chorizo, pastourma pies and pork knuckle slow cooked for eight hours in a clay pot.
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Address: Στρατάρχου Αλέξανδρου Παπάγου 20
A relaxed, sociable meze spot that stays open late, with plates for the middle of the table such as strapatsada with peppers, soutzouki and feta, grilled syngline with potato salad, and chickpea and pumpkin fritters.
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Address: Λούκη Ακρίτα 2
A warm, friendly meze place known for slow cooked veal with mash, handmade beef meatballs, a 700 gram stuffed burger, shrimp saganaki and a well stocked shelf of spirits.
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Address: Κανάρη 119
A historic Moschato fish taverna serving fresh fried shrimp and red mullet since 1950.
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Address: Σολωμού 39 to 41
Historic Moschato taverna that has kept its character for decades, known for meze like yalantzi dolmades, a spicy pastourma and soujouk dish, yogurtlu kebab and cheese croquettes.
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Address: Λεωφ. Βασιλέως Παύλου 74
One of the oldest tavernas in Voula, a meat taverna best known for its juicy handmade bifteki.
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Address: Γρηγορίου Κυδωνίων 10
A long running Aigaleo meze place with a courtyard under a pomegranate tree, serving sheep meat patties, mushroom kritharoto and daily specials with house wine.
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Address: Μάρκου Μπότσαρη 35
A small, nostalgic kafeneio and raki bar with a little courtyard, serving grilled talagani, dakos, pinsa, lahmacun and daily specials.
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Address: Αγίας Λαύρας 9
The corner raki bar that started the run of rakadika on Agias Lavras street, popular with students. Dishes include mushroom kritharoto, grilled talagani and cheese filled loukoumades with honey.
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Address: Αγίου Δημητρίου 22
A relaxed, long standing Petroupoli meze place for meatballs, soutzoukakia, chops and sausage, plus anchovies, sardines on the grill and stuffed squid.
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Address: 28ης Οκτωβρίου 110
A homely neighbourhood meze place known for its handmade meatballs, with courgette fritters, pork tigania, sausages and homemade dips.
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Address: Σκουφά 92, Πετρούπολη
Welcoming meze place in Petroupoli that balances land and sea at good prices, from meatballs, sausage and pork fry up to vinegared octopus, mussels saganaki with mustard and garlic, fried anchovies and sardines.
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Address: Κολοκοτρώνη 97, Πετρούπολη
Themed meze place built around the cult TV series Konstantinou kai Elenis, with dishes named after it, such as cheese croquettes with honey and chilli oil and lahmacun on handmade pitta with yoghurt.
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Address: Μεγάλου Αλεξάνδρου 63
A meze place that longtime Peristeri locals return to, named in a 2026 neighbourhood guide among the area's old haunts.
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Address: Παλαιών Πατρών Γερμανού 13, Περιστέρι
Cooperative, artistically restless kafeneio pairing well chosen beers with classic meze such as stuffed sausage, fried meatballs and Naxos cheeses, often with live rebetiko and folk music.
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Address: Δελφών 13, Ευαγγελίστρια, Περιστέρι
Neighbourhood meze kafeneio honouring Greek tradition with creative touches, known for courgette fritters, saganaki with honey, Cretan skioufichta pasta and slow cooked pork with petimezi, plus a small courtyard.
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Address: Βαρίκα 8, Αμπελόκηποι
A basement taverna with no sign, open since 1949 and almost untouched inside, with a fireplace in winter; famous for its red sauce gardoubakia and loved for cabbage dolmades.
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Address: Mesogeion 180, Cholargos
A well known meze spot with playful small plates, from chicken flavoured like a mojito to lamb mini burgers and prawn orzo.
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Address: Amfisis 34, Cholargos
A long running taverna and cookhouse with home style food: goat soup, rooster cooked in wine with homemade noodles and meats from the grill.
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Address: Mesogeion 242, Cholargos
Regional Greek meze in a covered courtyard used all year, with suckling pig roasted slowly for nine hours as the house favourite.
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Address: G. Papandreou 79, Nea Filadelfeia
A Nea Filadelfeia grill house that Gastronomos singles out for offal dishes, including grilled lamb fries.
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Address: Moschonision and Miteras
One of the oldest tavernas in the western suburbs, open since 1937 and long known to locals as Kastanis; the lamb chops are the draw.
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Address: Markou Botsari 25
A busy student favourite pairing a big range of bottled and bulk spirits from all over Greece with cheap meze and changing dishes of the day.
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Address: Karaiskaki 5
A seafood meze spot on the Karaiskaki pedestrian street, moved here from Rafina; try the sparos pasta, stuffed squid and cuttlefish ink risotto.
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Address: Vas. Voulgaroktonou 6
A meat taverna open for more than 50 years, with a fireplace in winter and a big yard under mulberries and vines; kokoretsi, lamb chops and large steaks.
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An old style koutouki with outdoor tables, known for its pickled aubergines, juicy pork tenderloin and hand cut chips.
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Address: Αγίου Παντελεήμονος 15, Δραπετσώνα
Old Piraeus style taverna that began in 1932 as a dairy shop, with mosaic floors and a working 1930s wooden fridge; Dora Stavridou cooks chicken soup and beef kokkinisto at midday and meatballs and ouzo keftedakia at night.
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A homely taverna for kebab, grills and cooked dishes of the day, with generous portions and a kitchen that will adapt dishes for special diets.
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Address: Vithynias 32
An ouzeri running since 1983, famous for crabs dressed in a secret family oil and lemon sauce, with white taramas, sun dried octopus and a short ouzo and tsipouro list.
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Address: Argyrokastrou 26
A homely taverna decorated with antiques and old objects, known for milk fed lamb chops from Lesvos, hand cut chips and a homemade spicy cheese dip, with a whitewashed yard.
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Address: Kreontos 163
Best known for its kebab, it also serves khorovats skewers of pork neck, chicken, lamb or beef fillet, with a hot carrot and coriander salad on the side.
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Address: Αθηνών Χαλκίδος 17, Διόνυσος (printed with a hyphen between Αθηνών and Χαλκίδος)
A tsipouradiko in the Volos style: you choose your spirit, wine or beer and rounds of meze arrive with it, heavy on fresh seafood such as shellfish, prawns, cuttlefish and octopus.
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Address: Λεωφ. Τατοΐου 17, Μεταμόρφωση
A butcher taverna with an unexpected courtyard on Tatoiou avenue, known for coarse sheep meat burgers grilled over charcoal, beef from Veria and Komotini, frygadeli, patsas and antikristo on Fridays and Saturdays.
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Address: Καλαβρύτων 16, Ν. Ηράκλειο
Fish and seafood place of chef owner Vasilis Akrivos in Neo Irakleio, known for playful, strongly personal sea dishes that have earned it a loyal following.
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Address: Πλατεία 28ης Οκτωβρίου & Π.Π. Γερμανού 1, Βριλήσσια
Family taverna running since 1970 and recently refreshed, focused on meat the owners raise themselves, with the stable reared steak as its signature dish.
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Address: Λεωφ. Βεΐκου 85, Γαλάτσι
New Galatsi meze place with a playful, light filled look of lamps, old crockery and film nods, serving shareable Greek meze, daily pies, fava with capers and feta in kataifi.
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Address: Βαρδουσίων 3, Γαλάτσι
A neighbourhood fish and ouzo spot on one of the uphill streets of Galatsi, run by the Kakaronis family with produce from Lesvos such as olive oil, ouzo, ladotyri and feta. Expect small fried fish like anchovy, sardine and horse mackerel, octopus dried in the sun, small fresh shrimp and ouzo scented meatballs as the only meat dish; larger fish are cooked to order.
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Address: Θησείου 12
New gastro kafeneio on the Thiseiou pedestrian street opened in June 2026, with a short menu of tuna giouvarlakia in avgolemono, charred cauliflower with tahini and octopus with fava.
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Address: Ερμού 98, Αθήνα
A large taverna on lower Ermou with glass fronted rooms, an inner courtyard and an open kitchen, cooking Greek tavern dishes alongside fresh fish and seafood.
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Address: Marathonomachon 57, Akadimia Platonos
Phone: +302105155367
A neighbourhood grill of some sixty years overlooking a quiet square in Akadimia Platonos, known for thin cut, well seasoned lamb chops with tzatziki and hand cut chips, plus kokoretsi and kontosouvli from the spit.
Not the same taverna as Ta Skalakia in Ilisia (Aiginitou 32), which has its own card on this page.
One of Gastronomos' nine old tavernas that never change
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Address: Πολυφήμου 52, Ίλιον
Hidden meze place in Ilion with fairytale decor and outdoor tables, known for handmade courgette and tomato fritters, pastourma pies, honeyed feta in village filo and a smoked Florina kopanisti spread.
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Address: Γεωρ. Πλήθωνος 1, Ίλιον
Homely meze place with tables out on the Plithonos pedestrian street, known for a spicy cheese pie with feta, peppers and chilli flakes, a spicy baked bouyiourdi with pastourma, courgette fritters and frequent live music.
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Address: Πριάμου 97, Ίλιον
Ilion taverna open since 1936 and elegantly renovated, devoted to grilled meat and lamb chops, with a wider menu of beef with pappardelle, lamb giouvetsi, chickpea soup and soutzoukakia.
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Address: Πλ. Εθνικής Αντίστασης 1, Μελίσσια
A roomy taverna with a high ceiling on the main square of Melissia, open since 1948 and now run by the third generation of a Sarakatsani family, known for its spit roasts, kokoretsi and meat cooked with skill over the flames.
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Address: Μεταμορφώσεως & Κολοκοτρώνη 10, Πεντέλη
A family taverna on the border of Vrilissia and Penteli with a short menu of seasonal salads, fries, tzatziki and village sausage around the star turn, milk fed veal steaks grilled exactly to order, and homemade galaktoboureko and walnut cake to finish.
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Address: Ούλωφ Πάλμε 1, Ζωγράφου
A busy kafeneio and meze place opposite the university residences in Zografou, with low prices, a leafy pedestrian lane alongside and plates such as onion and tomato pie, grilled oyster mushrooms and meatballs to go with wine, beer or tsipouro.
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Address: Μαυρομιχάλη 152, Νεάπολη
A taverna on Mavromichali street whose story starts in 1980, cooking with a Chios accent: pork with mastic and mash, mastelo cheese saganaki, fennel fritters and hunkar begendi, often with impromptu guitar and bouzouki.
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