GB Roof Garden Restaurant
With a magnificent view of the Holy Rock of the Acropolis, the manorial and long-suffering Syntagma Square and the Parliament, the green Lycabettus Hill and the Kallimarmaro Stadium, The award-winning "Great Britain" is the most emblematic hotel in Athens.
Indeed, the Hotel Great Britain thanks to its unique location, the old time classic luxury and its long and mythical history, it managed to maintain the lead and stand out from all the other hotels, of the Greek capital.
From the time that Antonis Dimitrios, a rich Greek from Trieste, erected it 1842, opposite the Palace of King Otto, a majestic 90-room mansion, until 1874 he was looking for Efstathios Lampsas by Savva Center create in this position the Hotel Great Britain (first the two and then the first alone) and then in 1888, when the hotel was one of the first buildings in Athens to be electrified, nearly two centuries have passed and there is no other hotel in Greece that can be proud that has hosted so many prominent personalities. Famous crown princes, presidents, prime ministers and political leaders, figures of letters and arts, among them Winston Churchill, Jacques Delors, Indira Gaddy, Lawrence Olivier, Jean Moro, Herbert von Marga, Cooper, Elizabeth Taylor, Sophia Loren, Jane Mansfield and so many others paralyzed from this hotel, but also countless historical events took place in its halls.
Today, the Hotel Great Britain, after a complete renovation in 2003 in view of the 2004 Olympic Games, has 320 rooms, including the Royal Suite of 400 square meters, belongs to the company Hellenic Hotels Lampsa SA, while managed by Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc.
One of the most important advantages of the hotel is the award for three consecutive years by Wine Spectator magazine GB Roof Garden Restaurant. From the seventh floor, the night view of Athens, when the city lights are on, takes your breath away.
Executive Chef of Hotel Great Britain is the Sotiris Evangelou and Chef de Cuisine of GB Roof Garden Restaurant is the Asterios Koustoudis.
Asterios Koustoudis, a young chef, started from Thessaloniki as a student of Sotiris Evangelos at Makedonia Pallas and then won a Michelin star at the Vardis Hotel. At GB Roof Garden Restaurant for 4,5 years now presents a menu that praises her new mediterranean cuisine.
We tried three of his typical dishes:
Grilled shrimp with fennel with asteroids anise spinach, dill and roe, barley with lobster and garden herbs, sea bass confetti in olive oil with yellow tomato syrup and all summer herbs.
It was a surprise to learn that at GB Roof Garden Restaurant they have made one garden with 15 garden herbs (from juniper root and mint to basil and mint).
The Director of Public Relations of the Hotel Christina Papathanassiou, who has been in this position for 14 years, says about Asterios' kitchen:
"OR emphasis on quality raw material and excellent technique is evident from the very first fork of the delicacies of Asterios. The dishes of GB Roof Garden Restaurant have all the elegance that the space exudes in combination with the Mediterranean warmth of the cuisine chosen by Asterios and Sotiris Evangelou. The amazing thing is that our foreign guests come "read" knowing the history of our hotel and the quality of hospitality we offer ".
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