Kotta's cafe in Patras

"To be a friend, to Kotta cafe, in the eighties, to see greatness ", an old patron of the store starts the discussion.

"To see limousines, six-door races, to be crammed into the Gyptika, between the huts. To see Iolas with his fur, to clean the soil of the floor for Tsarouchis to dance zeibekiko. And when it rained, the ground got muddy, and we threw sawdust… The dancers, their panties were filled with sawdust… so if they went after here, to other centers, the sawdust betrayed them… they had passed through Kottas ".

Station in her nightlife Patras Kotta's cafe. In the poorest neighborhood, in the settlement of Agia Aikaterini, a mahalas reminiscent of Kaisariani of 1960, we found it still alive the most authentic cafe in Patras.

Ο George Kottas is a form. Kafetzis, revelers, collector of rare rebetiko records, excellent dancer, is over 70 and insists. Every day now, the night after work, he opens the cafe for about two hours, a whiskey, a vodka, a tsipouro for company, only for friends. On Saturday the store is full and people are having fun.

"I could not have imagined that I would have to start a day job again, welding, to make ends meet… Find where they became… You are not bored, at least we have celebrated our lives!"

Sitting in his favorite position with a glass of whiskey in his hands, under the poster of "Legend" from 1973, the photo of Bresson with the inconceivable zeppelin in a cape in Piraeus and the work donated by Tsarouchis recalls the old and continues :

"The store started it 1932 my grandparents like a coffee-ouzo restaurant. From 1962 It functions as a coffee bar and as a nightclub… The people who came here became one… gentlemen as they should be, ladies with furs and jewelry but also students and people of the square. And the mother lost the child and the child lost the mother… On Saturdays the people came early and me until the sun caught them… ".

Take the time to visit the “show" Saturday night "to get to know a legend of Patras.