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The Mouzakitis cafe-grocery in Avliotes

Corfu's villages, scattered about the island's riotous green landscape of tall olive trees, cypress trees and vineyards, are well preserved with tile-roofed, pastel-colored houses, and very few concrete monstrosities among them. This fairytale scenery had convinced me that I would find old cafes. Unfortunately, the results of my search were meager. Two or three noted cafes […]

Traditional Cafés & Corfu

Lemon Garden Restaurant

What happens when a 21 year old girl from Karditsa moves to Corfu as a love refugee (as she herself puts it) after falling madly in love with a Corfiot from Acharavi, learns to cook at his side, has two children with him and sometime in the year 2004 decides to open her own restaurant [...]

Restaurants & Corfu

Central Market of Corfu

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

Markets & Corfu

The olive groves of Corfu

When you start to explore Corfu, perhaps the most impressive sight of all is the olive groves that cover the greater part of the island. From Pantokratoras, its highest mountain, to the terraced hillsides, to the valleys and often as far as the shoreline, the olive dominates the landscape. It was the Venetians who imposed […]

Mavromatis Kumquat

Mavromatis is a family run enterprise. Its first plant opened in 1965 in Corfu town and it specialized in the promotion of the kumquat in sweets and liqueurs. In 1984 it moved to the Palaiokastritsa road, and in 2008 it transferred to new quarters in an ultramodern factory. Production, which absorbs 80% of the island's kumquat […]

Producers & Corfu

Kyra Sophia's Cafe at Sokraki

As you go uphill towards Sokraki and beyond Ano Korakiana you follow a snaky winding path that leads to Mount Korakio. This road, full of twists and turns, overgrown with olive trees, barely wide enough for your car, was once a major thoroughfare in the dense road network constructed under the British. Suddenly you reach […]

Traditional Cafés & Corfu

The Olympia Café

Known to locals as Zisimos, Ta Olympia café cum bar/sweetshop was a landmark in Corfu town up until 2013, as the only café on the Liston that had retained its prestige as well as its original pre-War atmosphere. The Liston arcade, designed to resemble the rue de Rivoli in Paris, owes its name to a […]

Traditional Cafés & Corfu

Marina's Taverna

The Spilia neighborhood, in the narrow cantounia (alleyways) of the old Jewish district in Corfu town, conceals a little gem. Thanks to the owner's motherly touch in the kitchen, Marina's Taverna (or "tavernaki", which means "little tavern" in Greek) has won devotees both among locals and visitors. The winter space - an older eatery that Marina […]

Tavernas & Corfu

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