Fodor's Choice: The Best Restaurants in Athens

Fodor's Choice Athens Restaurants

Restaurants Overview
Name Price/
Cuisine
Location
 
Archaion Gefseis
The epicurean owners of "Ancient Flavors" combed through texts...
$$$
Cuisine, Greek
Central Athens, Psirri and Omonia Square
 
Balthazar
With its airy neoclassic mansion and leafy minimalist courtyard—paved...
$$$$
Cuisine, Contemporary
Athens North and East
 
Café Boheme
Comfort food and splashy cocktails abound at this petite hangout...
$$
Cuisine, Eclectic
Syntagma Square and Kolonaki
 
Cucina Povera
"Poor cuisine"? Nothing is of poor taste in this chic eaterie...
$$$
Cuisine, Greek
Central Athens, Psirri and Omonia Square
 
Daphne's
Discreet service and refined Mediterranean and Greek dishes (such...
$$$$
Cuisine, Greek
Plaka
 
Dionysos Zonars
Location, location, location used to be the catchphrase that...
$$$
Cuisine, Mediterranean, International
Monastiraki and Thission
 
Kuzina
Sleek, dazzlingly decorated, and moodily lit, this bistro attracts...
$$$
Cuisine, Greek: Greek Fusion
Monastiraki and Thission
 
Mamacas
This whitewashed restaurant started the wave of "modern neo-tavernas,"...
$$$
Cuisine, Greek, Mediterranean, Greek: Modern Greek
Gazi, Kerameikos, and Rouf
 
O Platanos
Set on a picturesque pedestrianized square, this is one of the...
$
Cuisine, Greek
Plaka
 
O Skoufias
This pretty taverna has some of the best food in town—and...
$$
Cuisine, Greek
Gazi, Kerameikos, and Rouf
 
Prosopa
Despite the regular influx of local celebrities, this modern...
$$$$
Cuisine, Greek: Greek Fusion
Central Athens, Psirri and Omonia Square
 
Sardelles
If you love seafood and don't want to pay a fortune for it, don't...
$$$
Cuisine, Seafood
Gazi, Kerameikos, and Rouf
 
Spondi
One of Athens's most intensely designed temples to great food...
$$$$
Cuisine, French: Modern French
Pangrati and Kaisariani
 
Strofi
Walls lined with autographed photos of actors from the nearby...
$$
Cuisine, Greek
Acropolis and South
 
To Steki tou Ilia
Athenians who love fresh-grilled lamb chops and thick-cut fried...
$
Cuisine, Greek
Monastiraki and Thission
 
To Varoulko
Not one to rest on his Michelin star, acclaimed chef Lefteris...
$$$$
Cuisine, Seafood
Central Athens, Psirri and Omonia Square
 
Vlassis
Relying on traditional recipes from Thrace, Roumeli, Thessaly...
$$
Cuisine, Greek
Athens North and East
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