Houston

Arriving at its port Patmos, The Staircase, under the shadow of the majestic Kastromonastiro of Agios Ioannis the Theologian and opposite the old fountain of the central square, will meet the most beautiful traditional cafe on the island. The "Houston»With the pink-bright green oil paints and the elderly guests - although here sometimes the foaming cream of Chora appears - for which the "The World of Interiors", the magazine-bible of interior chic, dedicated an entire issue.

Its name is curious, and so one quickly learns its history. From 1955 - when the Karali family in the cafe - he named it "Houston" because the father of the Andreas family had lived for 45 years as an immigrant in America, where the Patiniotes had founded the "in Houston Texas Patmian Brotherhood".

The atmosphere of the old cafe is unique. Bold colors, old furniture, photos with old ocean liners, crucifixes in the covered courtyard and inside the In the eyes, the last active descendant of the family - after the death of his older brother Michalis and the recent one of his sister Katina - to tell frugal stories of the cafe:

"The building is close to two centuries old, we have been working on it since 1955 winter-summer. What if in the winter we have few customers. One reason to treat them more.

We give them orgeat warm with nutmeg. Foreigners love us because we keep the traditional style and do not change it. We make our mom's sweets: tomato, grape, orange, bergamot, quince. And when foreigners come and look for foreign coffees, I answer them: "Sono greco", we carry the traditions".