The cafe of Anastasia Galaris

Among the shops that the famous locals shout peanuts from Aegina, at first glance, the two cafes that are under the historic and beautiful stand out City Hall building (1886), next to Aegina fish market. If in the old hangouts of the beach, such as "Karagiannis", "Aktaion", "Sakkiotis", "Kalokenti" the "anfan gate" of the society was frequented, lawyers, military, doctors, civil servants, incomes, the traditional cafes of Anastasia Galaris and Costa Fate is from old, mandatory stop for Ouzo ή brown, place of gathering of the survivors, the popular Parliament of the locals.

The beautiful mosaic, the eggplant chairs, the blue and yellow colors on the walls and the frames with the old photos give a special character to the cafe of Anastasia Galaris. They show the taste of the woman who has discreetly put her hand in her father's traditional cafe. Tasia is a Levantine woman who claims that she was the first to impose tsipouro on the beach!

"The cafe has been operating since its inception 20th century, my father received it 1961 by a coffee woman, something unprecedented at the time. When I was young, I spent my time here and I remember the customers of the cafe, the sailors, the fishermen and the construction contractors who here paid the daily wages to the workers, but also to the suppliers. When I took over the job in 1988, I was not eighteen years old. Gradually the character of the cafe changed. The youth began to frequent here - along with the senate and the old clientele -. At some point, especially in the evenings, it became a hangout, groups of people came here to discuss and to philosophize on wine by drinking rakes ".

H Tasia has a lot to tell us about the guests in the cafe of Anastasia Galaris, as many famous quieters in Aegina they used to drink their coffee here. She remembers him Odysseus Elytis, while in recent years the "company of Aegina" of the Prime Minister (Varoufakis, Flampouraris, Kouloglou etc) has been frequenting here.