Beach House on Kolios beach

The Beach House It 's in the Kolios beach 8 km from the city Skiathos, which is protected from strong winds and the sea is most often as calm as a lake. It is one of the beaches that o Papadiamantis he often mentions in his stories, as pink beaches, drowned in green nature of Skiathos with olives and pines reaching and shading the shore.

On the beach of Kolio there was from the beginning of the last century-maybe even older-a house, on the beach, where fishermen, until the 1950s pulled their boat, and which later became a farmhouse. These houses during the Tourism season acquired great value, because despite being located on the coast, they are now considered legal buildings since they were built before 1950 and can be used for professional use. Many such buildings were converted into taverns or beach bars with loud music and frantic parties.

The Beach House on Kolios beach of Diamantis Mathinos is an ideal case of utilization of such a house, as it fully respects the landscape and turns into a relaxed observatory of nature. Mild and tasteful interventions, 18 umbrellas with comfortable sunbeds at very popular prices, dining tables and sitting areas at distances that create a spacious, discreet but fine decoration, low volume music easy listening to chill-out, gentle service, with toilets for five bathrooms , is one of the trump cards of the store.

From a gastronomic point of view, Diamantis Mathinos, tourism businessman and deputy mayor of Skiathos Tourism, believes in Greek cuisine and several of the dishes it serves have the aroma of the island, such as:

• shoes (local pies with greens and fennel, fried in olive oil)
• smoked eggplant salad Roasted eggplant and Florin pepper, cherry vinegar fresh coriander and local chlorotyri
• green salad with slipper, local beans, zucchini and crispy pickled okra, cherry tomatoes, capers, Cretan sour cream, lemon oil and field mint from Skiathos
• salted anchovy bouquets, with coriander oil, valerian and tarama mayonnaise foam

«The house in Kolios, from a network warehouse that was until 2005, was abandoned, deserted and the place became a jungle. What I wanted was to get over the old atmosphere and all our operations were mild, and the prevailing atmosphere was relaxed and calm. That's why I named the place Beach House.

For the kitchen I work with a new chef from Volos, him Vassilis Syrtariotis who has a great passion for his work. Among other things, I offer cheeses from the only cheesemaker in our area, who supplies us with chlorotyri, feta and galotyri", Told us Diamantis who, in parallel with the hospitality he deals with professionally, really wanted to build a relaxed quality space on the sea.

My opinion is that the project of Diamantis Mathinos was absolutely successful!