Deli

If there's one thing you can fall in love with I was rope it's this 100 meter main street that has it all! You can sit there from morning to night – if you're the kind of person who can't bear to travel a lot – and never get bored. Everyone will pass in front of you, to sit in the cafes, to stroll back and forth, to buy something from the small grocery stores, to have a drink, to go to dinner a few meters away.

So, on this street, he set up his shop, the Deli restaurant with the most beautiful view, o Dimitris Papadakis, Cretan by origin, but because of love now Schinoussiote. Many years ago, Dimitris came to Schinoussa for a summer vacation, but he met a beautiful local girl, Evdokia Despotidis, who stole his heart. The rest took the path that instant love always takes: he came to stay at her place, they had 3 children, they created a wonderful family.

All these years Dimitris worked in restaurants in Greece and abroad, he studied with great chefs, he learned the secrets of the profession. 15 years ago they made the decision together to open a restaurant in their own space, a multi-tool rather, since at the Deli you can have a drink or coffee on the stools of the entrance bar and on the platform that is created on the main road, opposite the Hara coffee shop, to sit down for a snack on the ground floor of the building, or finally to go upstairs to eat and enjoy the unique view of the sea.

Dimitris Papadakis has a special relationship with drinks, beers and wines, and in his lists you will find the finest that exists in the Greek territory. In the beers, apart from conventional ones, you will find fresh beers from all over Greece, such as Ikariotissa from Ikaria, Yellow and Crazy Donkey from Santorini, Jasmine from Chios, Brink's from Rethymno, Katsika from Folegandros, the 56 Isles from Paros, Mikonu from Mykonos, etc.

The list of Greek wines is also important, where Dimitris chose the cream of the crop of Greek wines, focusing of course on the Aegean. From the reds, the eye fell on Mavrotraganos by Sigala, Nemea by Ayvalis, Alta by Thymiopoulos, Le roi des montagnes by Papargyriou, from rosés, Peplo by Skouras and Nautilus by La tour Melas, while from the natural wines the Vino di Sasso of Sclavos from Kefalonia and the Migma Petnat of the Hatzivaritis estate. Among the whites, we distinguished Meranyhta, Kydonitsa by Gofa, San ta Maratha by Hatzakis, 34' Assyrtiko by Karamalekko, Paros Barrel by the Moraitis estate, and due to the origin of Dimitris, the Cretan wines from Lyrarakis, Daskalakis, Douloufakis and Manousaki.

The Deli space has a minimal aesthetic, a gray cement mortar on the floor, off-white furniture and a white wooden ceiling, so that the protagonists are the foods created by Evdokia.

Of these, we singled out fava beans with yogurt sauce and Schinousa fava beans, raw fish, fish ceviche and shrimp ceviche with mango, orange, grapefruit. Of the main ones, shocking was the goat pasta from local goat (provocative and the title for a gourmet restaurant) and then the braised veal with various herbs, the barley with shrimps, the fresh tortellini stuffed with cephalotiri and sichlino, while fresh fish, squid and lobsters are grilled.

Dimitris and Evdokia of Schinousa, beautiful and creative people, who radiate a calm power, keep a low profile at the Deli. And if Dimitris brings you a carafe of Cretan raki, then one easily becomes ten, and Schinoussa takes off with her.

Deli Restaurant – Schinousa – Dimitris Papadakis – Evdokia Despotidis – Greek Gastronomy Guide