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Some popular restaurants in Athens to enjoy traditional Greek food
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There are good number of restaurants in the Athens Plaka, Psiri and surrounding area. If you try these out you will know what a good restaurant should look, taste and feel like, and be less likely to get a disappointing meal in one of the tourist joints. It is quite famous for its fish items.
• Byzantino restaurant in the Plaka: This is a preferred restaurant of choice for a good number of locals as well as tourists. It is situated in e Small Park on Kydatheneon Street, but the food is good enough to rouse your appetite and Greek clientele who throng the restaurant through out the year. The famous delicacies at the restaurant are the spinach pie, fish soup (psa- row -soupa) which you can get it with or without a plate of fish. More you can enjoy there the Greek salad (hor-ee- ah -tiko), eggplant salad (mel-eetsana salata), yogurt dip (sa-tzi-ki), and all the tourist standards. This all there is served on a very reasonable rates and it is not either expensive. One can also enjoy there their roast potatoes (fourno pahtahtes) and chicken (kotopoulo). They also serve bottled wine and cold beer and ouzo and mezedes. Lamb fricasse is good and as healthy as it gets for carnivores.
• Hani Restaurant in the Plaka: Hani is a type of inn for travelers and the most of the customers here are mixture of Greeks as well as tourists from all around the world. With live acoustic bouzoukia music, an outdoor garden in the back and tables right on Adriannou Street where you see people moving forth and back. On can dien herea nice mezedes platter, fresh fish, grilled meats, oven cooked meats and vegetables and salads and appetisers and wine by the carafe or bottle. It is indeed is a nice spot for trying up good Greek food and here after you can start your journey to other places of city. Hani is situated at 138 Adrianou street. More you can have their Psaronefi (roast pork loin) and their Rouqforte Salad at the restaurant.
• Psaras Fish Taverna: It is one of the oldest restaurant Tavernas in the Plaka that started back to 1898. Its menu is in English and the waiters and staffs are generally pleasant and helpful. It’s on the corner of Erotocritou and Erehtheos streets up the steps that lead from the Plaka to the Acropolis. It is a grilled soup.
• To Kioupi: This restaurant is rather famous among locals and businessmen who loves dining here for half a century and may be a longer period. Apart for food it is too good for an excellent wine. It is indeed is a Good place for lunch but there is no provision for outdoor seating. If you are staying in Kolonaki then it is the cheapest spot to dine in entire area. It is also a sort of place for visiting scholars and archaeologists.
• Vitro: If you roam through the heart of the historical location of Acropolis, 20 meters close to the metro and across the new museum of Acropolis, you will find out there the famous restaurant “VITRO”. The entire restaurant is filled with tasteful decorated interior lounges that in fact are called “VITRO”. In that romantic atmosphere you can relish a delightful meal that comprises of an amalgam of tastefull dishes and a big variety of wines. The restaurant serves the traditional Greek cuisine, as well as the imaginative recipes and the high quality ingredients that are mixed up of immaculate delicious menu that definitely satisfy your appetite and taste. There at the restaurant you can select from variety of spaghetti, fresh fish some of our specialties are special “exohiko” lamb, mix soublaki, stuffed egplants and spaghetti.
• Ideal: It is the oldest of operating restaurant in Greece. It since for the last 80 years provides the Athenians and the visitors of the city, a wide menu of great quality and tasteful food. One can enjoy it there in a friendly relaxing environment at various centers of Athens. It works on the trend and philosophy of mixing up Greek traditional cuisine with present dinning requirements of the people. One can enjoy there a coffee, a dessert from its menu, or a Greek traditional plate that is rare to see at any other restaurant in the city.
• Petrino: The first ever Petrino restaurant was founded in one of the most elegant old buildings in Athens in 1990. It has an exclusive reputation for being serving excellents snacks and food. It serves international cuisine in a huge variety of our excellent snacks and foods. Celebrities from the political, the art and the academic fields come here to enjoy the days over here. Petrino, also caters to the business meals and receptions of the highest quality and is staffed and organized in manner to fulfill the desire of most demanding of clients.
• Zorbas Tavern: This restaurant is in operation for 40 years under the Acropolis, and is one of the most historical and interesting places in Athens. The restaurant is known internationally for its reputation. One can enjoy at restaurant the traditional Greek meals like as casserole stamnas and lamb Zorbas in tomatos, delicious snacks as well as the best and most tasteful wines on the reasonable prices. More it is added with an excellent service and the quality cusine.
• Erato: It is a beautiful traditional restaurant situated under the Acropolis in the beautiful Plaka, which is one of the most beautiful spots in Athens. Here you can enjoy the traditional Greek cuisine, delicious snacks as well as the best and most tasteful wines. The most favorable period of the year to sit at this restaurant is winter where you can amidst bon fire outside in a green garden full of plane trees, flowers and arbours. The restaurant has a separate room of recreational activities like air conditioning with comfortable spaces and luxury.
Enjoy and have fun of some exotic shopping experience in Athens
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With its experience to shopping, Athens comparatively has a few shopping malls or large departmental stores instead it is quite popular for small, family run shops. And one can even get ample souvenirs out there. There is ample shopping opportunity is available to people in terms of antiques, museum reproductions, embroideries and other folk art and goods, and Greek food and drink products.
For articles by street vendors who sold those out on the pavement the tourist congregate can reach out at Plaka and Monastiraki. There vendors items consist forgeries, cheap knock –off and illegal CDs. However with purpose of shopping in Athens downtown is a shopper’s paradise. In the areas of Plaka and Monastiraki there is a large variety of tourist shop situated there. Along with that there is central Athens which is too popular for shoppers for having shopping and other activities. The area of central Athens has been closed down for all motor vehicles and has become an interesting area for walking shoppers with every kind of shopping items being available over there. There you can have street merchants selling out everything from scarves to devices that make out stuffed grapes leaves or hollow out a zucchini. There are also quality clothing shops where one can get variety of men and women’s apparel from all across the world.
Spiliopoulos towards the bottom of Ermou and at the right side of on Athinas Street there are a number of clothing shops where one can get more casual stuff, jeans, T-shirts and the Polynesian shirts in branded category. Next on Athinas street between Ermou and Agia Erinis there are cloths even available. On the same street you can buy cool souvenir shirts, not like the ones they sell in the flea market or the Plaka.
There at Syntagma Square there is situated electronics video-CD-DVD-electronics shop called Public. In downtown Athens, one can get an entire block of stores that sells out doorknobs. And there doorknobs are known even from the ancient period to modern times. More you can get here are different types of lights and furniture at streets around Syntagma Square.
More at Ermou streets in Athens one can get good numbers of quality shoes or clothes and if you are found of expensive clothes then even you can have branded clothes like Benneton, Zara and other international shops. There is even a Bodyshop. Ermou that once was Main Street for traffic is been now closed to cars and now is like street fair of any metropolitan city. There thousands of shoppers, street musicians and people selling hot chestnuts in the winter and corn-on-the-cob in the summer. It’s like a high-class bazaar. They also sell out fabric, silk flowers, all kinds of tailoring supplies, buttons, costumes, and other items.
Other important shopping streets in Athens are Eolou and Agiou where one can find out incredible bargains in clothes, fabrics, yarn, shoes and cafes. These markets are sometimes even run by young men and women from Russia and Persia who sometimes sells out silks shirts, socks and underwear on the street. Another place worth visiting is Athens Central Market. If you go down Evripidou Street and cross Athinas street you will come across to an area which is known to be the Athenian Eqiuvelant of China town.
Kolonaki Athens is the city’s most fashionable neighborhood and is home to Italy’s Aristocracy. Kolonaki shopping is interestingly would be nice example for someone who is found of and have taste for the finer things in life. Along the streets of Kolonaki there are located some posh designer shops from both international and Greek designers that provides the latest fashion and styles. If you have an appetite for a classic Greek dish, then Kolonaki’s beautiful streets there are lined with one of the best restaurants in Greece. Cafes and bars are very common object to be observed.
Even one can reach Kolonaki by an easier means in Athens as is being situated at the southwest of Lykavittos Hill. Kolonaki too is close and is in within walking distance from Syntagma Square that is the main plaza in the city. Some of the best museums in Athens can be get at Kolonaki, the prominent museums there includes the Benaki Museuem, the Goulandris Museum of Cycladic Art, the Byzantine Museum, and the Athens War Museum. Many of the museums and art galleries situated around Kolonaki are housed in impressive neo-classical buildings. The History Museum of Greek Costume and the Theater Museum are two smaller Kolonaki Athens museums are for the person suffering with a bite a bite of a creative bug.
Being situated at the posh location, Kolonaki not only attracts a number of high-class restaurants and stores, but also presents options for luxury Kolonaki hotels. In the area there are found around both 5-star and 4-star Kolonaki hotels where you can enjoy world-class amenities and comfort as well you can have in reach there some of the best shopping, dining and monuments in Athens. For another different type of shopping experience near to Kolonaki there is situated Plaka flea market close by Monastariki where both Athenians and foreigners look for antiques items for discounts and reasonable rates and price.