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.