Six Athens Eateries for Holiday Meze and Meals

While the upcoming Ohi Day nationalist vacation connected Oct. 28 lacks a circumstantial accepted dish, it provides a premier accidental for eating out.

Athens offers a wide enactment of taverns and mezedopoleia (meze restaurants) for vacation gatherings.

In Syntagma, Evgenia serves classical Greek dishes, including moussaka, stuffed vegetables, citrus chicken, and giouvetsi (meat and pasta stew), offering a accepted alternate to adjacent tourer spots.

Further northbound successful Nea Erythraia, Gakias provides an ambiance reminiscent of classical Greek cinema.

The edifice specializes successful meze, specified arsenic handmade dolmades (stuffed grape leaves), chickpea stew, and lamb.

Fixaki, located adjacent Saint Loukas Church successful Neo Iraklio, is simply a budget-friendly enactment with outdoor seating successful a square.

It serves originative Greek cuisine, focusing connected grilled meats similar burgers and calf liver, alongside specialties specified arsenic skioufichta (Cretan pasta).

In Exarcheia, Ama Lachei is acceptable successful a erstwhile schoolhouse gathering and courtyard. The paper features Greek home-style cooking, including grilled meats, giouvetsi, and caller seafood.

For seafood, the classical Piraeus tavern Margaro is known for its elemental paper of fried fish, including tiny reddish mullet (barbounia), picarel, and shrimp, served with a colony salad.

In Glyfada, the modern mezedopoleio Dopios uses section products nether the absorption of cook Christoforos Peskias. Dishes see elephantine beans with hummus, octopus with fava, and lamb sweetbreads.

Mr. Peskias's paper focuses connected updated determination flavors.

By Zoe Papafotiou