January 3, 2023
Culture, Eat-Drink, FEATURED
Locally produced food delicacies from the northern section of the island of Evia will be on show at the Syntagma metro station exhibition hall in downtown Athens from Friday to Sunday, January 6-8, 2023. The three-day mini food expo aims to showcase to Athenians the broad selection of foods produced …
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December 27, 2022
Culture, Eat-Drink, FEATURED
Greek cuisine is the 2nd best in the world for 2022, as voted by users of the platform Taste Atlas around the world, choosing from almost 100 different countries for the whole year. However, even though Greece is second top in general, it loses many points when it comes to …
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November 7, 2022
Culture, Eat-Drink, FEATURED
17 wineries of Northern Greece open their doors to public on Sunday, 13. November 2022, to celebrate the Wine Tourism. The wineries of the “Wine Routes of Northern Greece” will open their doors for guided tours and wine tasting. Entrance for wine loving public is free of charge. “Come and …
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October 25, 2022
Culture, Eat-Drink, FEATURED
It’s not family size, it’s not quartered, it’s not giant. It’s just huge. The Pizza Challenge offered by a pizzeria in Thessaloniki weighs 7 kg has a diameter of 1 meter and a perimeter of 3.2 meters. It is baked in an oven with special construction. If four people manage …
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August 30, 2022
Culture, Eat-Drink, FEATURED
The Greek salad, a landmark of the Greek cuisine worldwide: shiny-sweet tomatoes and crisp cucumbers, spicy white onions and green bell peppers, black olives. A thick slice of feta cheese on top of the mountain of fresh veggies. All rounded up with golden olive oil and aromatic dry oregano. Who …
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July 17, 2022
Culture, Eat-Drink, FEATURED
Wines aged in the underwater cellar at the bottom of the sea in Halkidiki have landed at restaurant tables in Japan, where they enjoy a huge popularity. Sushi and Greek wine aged underwater, is the new trend in Japan. The bottles of the underwater cellar from Ierissos, were sunk in …
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July 6, 2022
Eat-Drink, Uncategorized
Taste of Athens 2022, a major gastronomic event, kicks off on Thursday and for four days visitors can enjoy dishes prepared by ten star chefs in the country. A rich music and fun parallel program will add to the experience, while there is also a special program for kids. 4 …
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December 30, 2021
Eat-Drink, FEATURED
What do we need these days when pandemic infections reach unprecedented levels and grim news and restrictions spoil the festive days? Let’s Eat Cake! A simple and quick comfort cake with chocolate and almonds, cognac and some fruit for the healthy touch. I have no time to write a long …
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December 20, 2021
Eat-Drink, FEATURED
My Perfect Greek Melomakarona: Traditional cookies full with all Christmas flavors of cinnamon, cloves, orange and cognac, sprinkled with crushed walnuts. Soaked in light honey syrup. There are no festive days without a plate full of these sweets on the table. The original recipe comes from my mother and she …
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October 28, 2021
Eat-Drink, FEATURED
Samali is a semolina-cake scented with mastic, one of the traditional Greek so-called “tray sweets”, even though not so famous as its glamorous cousins, the baklava or kataifi. It is a modest sweet soaked in fragrant syrup and modest because it has nuts only as decoration and not as main …
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December 21, 2020
Eat-Drink, FEATURED
My Perfect Greek Melomakarona: mellow sweet bites full of Christmas aromas soaked in light honey syrup. Cinnamon, cloves, orange and cognac, sprinkled with crushed walnuts. There is no festive days without a plate full of these sweets on the table. The original recipe comes from my mother and she had …
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December 15, 2019
Culture, Eat-Drink
This is the eternal Christmas question Greeks are challenged with every year: the traditional to-die-for Greek sweets during the festive days: Melomakarona or Kourabiedes? Melomakarona are egg-shaped calory-bombs. They are soft and soaked in sirup made of honey or sugar and water. They are made of flour, sugar and olive …
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October 18, 2019
Eat-Drink
A great feast for Chocoholics of all ages in Athens: The Chocolate Festival, ChocolateFest, has opened its gates on Thursday, and will welcome visitors until Sunday, October 20, 2019. Chocolate brands, pastry shops, renowned pastry chefs will present chocolate products in a variety of forms in order to delight even …
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October 15, 2019
Eat-Drink
The first micro-brewery Athens Craft Beer Festival will open its gates on October 18 and run until October 20, 2019 in the Greek capital. The festival is dedicated exclusively to craft beer by micro-breweries from both Greece and abroad. The festival involves 24 Greek breweries and 9 from Bulgaria, Croatia, …
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September 17, 2019
Eat-Drink, Very Mix
A foreign national missing in the island of Mykonos was found dead on Monday. The 43-year-old diver, crew member of British flagged “Sea Dragon”, was found by private divers. The Sea Dragon was moored in the sea area of Platis Gialos. The diver went missing on Monday noon. The rescuers …
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June 16, 2019
Eat-Drink
It used to be the only ice cream Greeks knew for several decades. Kaimaki, a chewy ice cream Greeks love to eat with sour cherry syrup and sprinkles of pistachios or sweet almonds.The ice cream has a decent flavor of mastic. This specific ice cream is always elastic and it …
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May 13, 2019
Eat-Drink
From Cuba and Mexico to China and India, from Jamaica and Hawaii to Greece and Brazil, Athens Street Food Festival presents a great variety of cuisines from the entire planet, including many surprises and unexpected ideas! Mouthwatering dishes, from savory to artistic gelato… Participants list Athens Street Food Festival opens …
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April 17, 2019
Eat-Drink
A cup of Greek coffee is a must for Greeks some time in their lives. The Greek man who respects himself enjoys the fine aromatic beverage preferably with three cigarettes in the morning. For women a cup of Greek coffee offers the opportunity to chit chatting with other female relatives …
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April 10, 2019
Eat-Drink
It is one of the most delicious Greek dishes with ground meat: Soutzoukakia Smyrneika Σουτζουκάκια Σμυρνέϊκα or simply Smyrna Meatballs. They are flavored with cumin and garlic, fried and then simmered in tomato-wine sauce. Greek refugees from Asia Minor introduced the dish to the Greek cuisine after the 1920 and …
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March 31, 2019
Eat-Drink
You always thought escargots, the land snails, can be eaten cooked or simmered and in Cretan extreme first cooked and then fried? You are kind of outdated. A local in Messara by Heraklio, Crete, invented a new technique for the delicacy: Escargots on the Skewer or Snails Souvlaki. The snails …
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