Restaurants, bars, food festivals in Greece

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Kitchen Greece

What is the cuisine of Greece? Greek cuisine - a dish prepared on the basis of cheese, vegetables, olives and seafood, as a complement to that used spices, lemon juice and olive oil.
National cuisine of Greece

In Greek cooking was influenced by Turkish, Slavic, Italian iarabskie culinary school, causing it became an independent attraction of the country.

National dishes are prepared with meat (lamb), cheeses and seafood dishes of the first popular lentil soup - "fakes", as, for example, on Crete at a premium vegetables - they then stuffed, fried, steamed, baked (worth a try "briam "- Greek vegetable stew) and fish (usually it is cooked in an open fire).

Main Greek cuisine:

"Stifado" (stew with onions and orange);
"Patudo" (lamb stuffed with cheese and liver);
"Pastitsio" (macaroni casserole with meat filling);
"Putya-Glick" (pastry with walnuts);
"Melidzana psiti" (baked dish with tomatoes, eggplant and cheese).

Where to try the national cuisine?

For inexpensive and delicious it is advisable to go to the tavern (where, for example, serves "moussaka" - arranged in layers, potatoes, beef and eggplant sauce "bechamel"), or tavern-psistarya (here serving meat roasted on a spit or grilled, for example, "paidakya" -barani ribs).

In Athens, the national cuisine can be enjoyed in the "Acropolis View" (the atmosphere of this restaurant is impregnated with the spirit of ancient Athens, where to order a dish of the day from the chef); in Thessaloniki - the tavern "1901" (where it is recommended to order the mussels, "moussaka", beef and lamb sauce); Chalkidiki (Hanioti) - in the restaurant "Arhontico" (here it is necessary to eat feta cheese, baked in herbs, as well as "souvlaki" -shashlychkami from different types of meat on skewers); in Corfu (Paleokastritsa) - in the "Nereids Restaurant" (recommended to try the fish and seafood prepared in different ways, as well as lamb with baked potatoes).
Cooking classes in Greece

On the island of Ikaria you will learn to cook healthy and simple Greek dishes (the chef Diane Kochias) in the form of pancakes with honey and cinnamon; shrimp in a creamy sauce; soufiko (Greek fulfillment of ratatouille); tsadiks with garlic-cucumber-yogurt sauce (training will be held in the 100-year-old villa). But before cooking offers food suppliers to visit - cheese factory Diamanto Plaka, bakery Kollia, distillery Nicos.

You do not know when to come to Greece? Of course, during the Festival of Aegina pistachios (September), the festival of chestnuts (Arna, Peloponnese, October) and festivals "Thessaloniki Food Festival" (Thessaloniki, January) and "Agro Quality Festival" (Athens, April-May).