Muse Bistro launches the festive season with a winter-warming menu
Tucked just off the hip and happening Ag.Theodoron Sq, Muse Bistro at the Gem Society Hotel captures the essence of the Mediterranean's graceful ...
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What the 2024 Michelin Awards Reveal: Athens’ Culi...
Athens is solidifying its reputation as Europe’s coolest culinary dest...
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Akra promises culinary highs and uncommon thrills ...
Part of a new crop of neo-tavernas, Akra in t...
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In the Spirit of a Winemaker: Q & A with Angeliki Grazia
Angeliki Grazia is on a quest. What started as a heritage project to revive oft-forgotten varieties of Naxos’ winemaking culture, ended up with Grazia as a firm advocate of not only preserving these ancient varieties, but also of highlighting their role in the future of Greek wine-making. At the picturesque Terra Grazia winery in Kato Sa...
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The Wine Whisperer of Nemea
Hellenic history and art tells us that wine was a fundamental cultural pillar of Ancient Greece. But many fine varieties have been lost to the ages. Amanda Dardanis meets Kostas Bakasietas, the man who is raising extinct Greek varieties from the Dead. Greeks, it is said, were the first to produce wine. Certainly, we gave th...
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On a Wine and a Prayer: Notes from the monastic cellars of Mt. Athos
Athens Insider’s wine expert Eleni Kefalopoulou goes where no woman has been before and culls secrets from the esoteric monastic cellars of the Holy Mountain. It took several years of research and no doubt endless glasses of wine to come up with this remarkably documented book on the history and millennia-old traditions of wine making on ...
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Elevate your gift-giving game at the Hotel Grande Bretagne’s GB Corner
Immerse in the magic of the season at the iconic Hotel Grande Bretagne and King George Hotel. A TIMELESS CELEBRATION This year, the Hotel Grande Bretagne crowns its 150th anniversary with Always Grand holiday experiences that redefine festive sophistication. The “Grand Dame of Athens” dazzles with an 8-meter Christmas tree ...
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Two Classic Greek Christmas Sweets
It’s not Christmas in Greece until the zacharoplasteia start piling mounds of melomakarona and kourabiedes. And it cleaves Greek society into two clans: those who prefer the crunchy intensity of melomakarona and those who swear by the ethereal, melt in the mouth, buttery bite of a kourabie. By Diana Farr Louis More traditional...
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Wine Escapes to Kokotos Vineyards, just 25 minutes from Athens
Head to the Kokotos Estate, this Sunday, December 1 for a tour of one of Attica’s finest vineyards. The First Sundays of the month have become a fixture in the Athenian calendar as Kokotos Estate opens its doors for guided tours of the vineyard and winery. A visual treat to take in an unlikely Athenian landscape as well as a brilliant ex...
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10 Athens meat-destinations to sate your carnivorous impulses
Who remembers that great scene from My Big Fat Greek Wedding when Aunt Voula reacts, shocked, to the news that her niece’s non-Greek date doesn’t eat meat? ("Oh, that’s okay. I make lamb.”) The Greek culinary scene may have evolved since then, but meat still dominates the dinner table. Insider recommends 10 super-stylish and great-value m...
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Beaujolais at Mr Vertigo. From Nouveau Fun to Cru Complexity
What started as a local tradition to celebrate the shipment of the new vintage was co-opted by the gods of marketing into a whacky race to be the first to sample the then famous Beaujolais Nouveau. Now one of the most exciting wine regions in France, Beaujolais is much more than a sprint to sample the first sip. Given that thi...
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Reinventing the Classics of Greek Cuisine
Greek cuisine is quite rightly respected around the world for the quality of its produce, the magical health giving properties and the sheer pleasure in its varied deliciousness. There are a core of classics that are so called for a reason. Tried and tested by generations of yiayiades and visitors alike, moussaka, pastitsio, h...
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