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Trophopoleio 51

51 Spartis Street, a few meters from Kalamata's Municipal Market, is where you'll find Trofopoleio 51 (Food Shop), a little shop that sells regional products. There's nothing about it that attracts the eye, at first. However, behind the display area with local products from small producers, such as extra virgin olive oil, the famous Kalamata […]

Markets & Kalamata

Municipal Market of Tinos

In the main town fresh fruit and vegetables go on sale every day in the open air municipal farmers market at Pallada, between the new and old harbor of Tinos island. The local products that you are likely to find at the Municipal Market of Tinos, depending on the season, are artichokes - wild and cultivated, […]

Markets & Tinos

Liopita

You'll find Liopita, a place where every kind of pie (pita) is made, at 12 Demosthenous Street, in Kalamata's Old Market. Its owner, Elpida Peristeropoulou, a woman who, because of Greece's 'crisis', left her job as an accountant and decided to create something of her own, a shop specializing in hand-made pies. It's an undertaking […]

Markets & Kalamata

Ariston Café Sweetshop

In the main square in the main town on Kos you'll find a café-sweetshop of a kind that is dying out in our day. Its founder, Michalis Tsivrinis, a refugee from Smyrna and well versed in the art of making Anatolian sweets, opened his shop, the Ariston, in 1952. In 1977 his son Konstantinos inherited […]

Amygdalota Porou - Danglis (almond sweets)

Amygdalota Porou - Danglis is a family business that has been 'sweetening up' the people of Poros since 1976. Today's shop sits on Karamanou Square in town and besides the famous crushed almond confections it also offers traditional ice creams, 'karydota' (walnut goodies ), 'kourabiedes' (almond shortbread), 'pastelli' (seed and nut brittles) and spoon sweets, all […]

Markets & Poros

Municipal Market of Poros

The Municipal Market of Poros (in Greek 'agora') is an old market above the coast road in an arcade on both sides of a lane that before the opening of the supermarket housed a dozen or so shops. Sadly today only two have remained, the Olympiakos butcher owned by the sons of Evangelos Koulis and […]

Markets & Poros

Kalamata's Municipal Market

Every Wednesday and Saturday the new Municipal Market hosts the Kalamata farmers' market. It's 30 years old now, but we say new to distinguish it from the old market, which now houses the Archaeological Museum of Messinia. Producers from all over the region arrive at the crack of dawn to set up their stands around […]

Markets & Kalamata

Casa Dolce

In June of 2010 a newcomer from Central Greece arrived on the island of the Winds. A confectioner, Nikos Koukiasis by name, he opened Casa Dolce, which quickly joined the list of places where you can sample the very best ice creams in this country. It didn't take long before Nikos evolved from pastry chef [...]

Markets & Mykonos

Municipal Market of Chania

Even though the glory days it saw in the beginning of the 20th century have waned, the Municipal Market of Chania, an architectural gem and one of the most impressive municipal markets in the Balkan Region, is still one of the flagship buildings of the city. Currently standing where the limits of the city stretched [...]

Markets & Crete

Gioras Bakery

Gioras Bakery in the vicinity of Lakka dates back to the 18th century. It is the oldest working bread oven on Mykonos and it is named after one Gioras (which means Giorgos in the local dialect). It has belonged to the Vamvakourides family for more than two centuries. Gioras bakery, situated in the narrow lane of Ignatiou […]

Markets & Mykonos

Central Market of Corfu

The Central Market of Corfu is located downtown at the center of the town of Corfu.

Markets & Corfu

Tzimblakis

Antonis Tzimblakis's traditional store is located in the middle of Papavasileiou Street, the main commercial street of Chora, the town of Naxos. Ioannis A. Tzimblakis, the father of Antonis, opened this store back in 1938 and before that he was running a small grocery shop in his village, Damarionas. Back then small grocery shops […]

Markets & Naxos

Papavasileiou Street

Papavasileiou Street in Chora, the town of Naxos, houses traditional shops, quite closely arranged, selling local produce but mostly the cheeses of Naxos, the cheese-eater's paradise! Here you will find Koufopoulos's cheese shop (Tyrokomiki Naxou) and the cheese shop of Maraki (Ms), selling their own dairy and cheese products, as well as the cheese shops […]

Markets & Naxos

Aegina's Municipal Fish Market

Aegina's Municipal Fish Market has been operating like a fish auction hall for the past 70 years on the harbor of Aegina. Every morning caiques, the Greek traditional wooden boats (caique, kaiki in Greek, is a small wooden boat usually powered by an engine though it may have sails as well and some can be […]

Markets & aegina

Evripidou Street

Evripidou Street is undoubtedly the most fragrant street in Athens. Day in day out, this street is bursting at the seams. Athenians love good food and do not mind if they have to travel long kilometers to get to the city center and find that unique spice that will add a special touch to a dish. […]

Markets & Athens - Attica

Varvakeios Fish Market

Varvakeios Municipal Market of Athens could justly boast having catered to the dietary needs of entire generations of Athenians throughout its approximately 150-year long history. In 1874, during the term of office of Mayor Panagis Kyriakou, it became clear that it was high time for the capital of Greece to acquire a modern Municipal Market built […]

Markets & Athens - Attica

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