Recap – Taste of Saronic Islands
Here’s the recap from last weekend’s Taste of the Saronic Islands.Thank you to all the guests in attendance, my servers and sous, staff at St. Lawrence Market and Ursula G. Photography for capturing images. Tea lights were donated by Yummi Candles, Greek wines and spirits from United Stars and were poured by Apostolos Gerakinis. Nisos Importing supplied […]
Recap – Autumn in Athens Greek Supper Club
Last weekend we celebrated aromas and flavours of Athens. I returned to the St. Lawrence Market Kitchen which has just been recently renovated but the backdrop of Toronto’s skylin is there and more spectacular Greek wines – this time from Lyrarakis Crete,Sigalas Santorini, Tsilili Theopetra Estate Meteora and Papagiannakos of Attiki. All courses were made with […]
Athens for Foodies
Last year I met with one of the principals of Athens Insiders during my stay in the capital and we quickly found that we share a passion for Greek culture, especially food and wine. Many of you will visit Greece, some of you will also attend one of my tours and that means you will […]
Ta Karamanlidika tou Fani
Ta Karamanlidika tou Fani http://karamanlidika.gr/ +30 21 0325 4184 Where: the corner of Sokratous 1 and Evripidou 52, Athens (Athens Central Market District) http://karamanlidika.gr/contact/ The Food: Primarily a shop with cheeses and charcuterie but there are some tables where you can sit with your friends/parea and enjoy Greek mezedes in the Karamanlidika style (Greeks of […]
First Stop: Peter Minakis’ Athens
I was recently approached by the folks of Culinary Backstreets to share with their readers where I would eat upon immediately arriving in Athens. The site’s focus is to explore a city’s authentic dining scene and they offer gastronomic walking tours of Istanbul, Barcelona, Rio, Mexico City, Shanghai and Athens. Click on the link and […]
Estiatorio Milos in Athens
Surely, one of the best meals I had last year had to be when I dined at Estiatorio Milos, located in the Athens Hilton. Centrally located (every cabbie knows where the Hilton is), you can get to this place with little trouble and you’ll be rewarded with a Greek dinner, par excellence. Estiatorio Milos has […]
Grilled Kebabs
This past summer saw me travel to both Greece and Turkey: neighbors, once foes, current rivals and friendly neighbors. Confused? There’s a lot of history between these two nations and to this day, ripples from the Ottoman Empire are felt in Greece (some good, some bad). Greece and Turkey also share some similarities when it […]
Kebab “O Thanassis” in Athens
I would be a damn fool if I told you that Greece had a banner year for tourism. It didn’t. In most of the places that I visited you couldn’t tell there’s was a major drop in business, although business owners were harping about the drop in receipts. From the perspective of the tourist, it […]
From YYZ to SKG
Those that live in Toronto or have traveled to Toronto will know that the airport code for Pearson International Airport is YYZ. Toronto’s Airport was named after Canada’s Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson. Pearson was Prime Minister just prior to the Trudeau years and he also won a Nobel Peace Prize. Toronto finally has a […]
National Archaelogical Museum of Athens
Most of you who choose to visit Greece will also surely pass through Athens. Greek cities aren’t fun in the summer: traffic, heat, congestion but the nightlife is fantastic, the dining options appeal to all tastes and budgets and the museums – endless. To friends who ask me what to see and do in Athens […]
