Naoussa Popular Market

The central markets of cities and popular markets they may no longer play the key role they once did - because today's supermarkets and shops in all the neighborhoods are highly competitive - but here you can find even cheaper prices, certainly fresh and special food from small producers and mainly the market atmosphere. The presence of local products directly from the field, the voices of traders chanting their wares, the commotion of the people, the general disorder and the feeling that everything is chatted and everything is haggling, exude an oriental air flea market, the theater of everyday life starring people and products.

And of course in most markets you will find them hidden cafes, appetizers or fast food hangouts that serve mainly the people of the market, who work day and night.

We confirmed these general impressions from the popular markets in Naoussa public market around the Government House square and in the surrounding streets.

The products of her place Naoussa where we stood out:

Zucchini, cauliflower, cabbage, broccoli, pumpkins, leeks, parsley, beetroot, spring onions vegetables

Pears, persimmons, apples, pomegranates, plums, grapes from fruit

Chestnuts, walnuts, almonds from nuts

On Saturday, the people of Naoussa traditionally always eat fish, which they get fresh, from the fishmongers who go to the fish ladder of Nea Michaniona and bring cheap fish such as anchovies, sardines, but also urchin urchins, carp, grinder, red mullet and gorse.

Across the Fisherman of Psara There are frying pans where customers deliver the fish they bought and eat it with the relevant appetizers and drinks!

One of them, the frying pan of Vassilis Tsiakiris - Mamalakis opened just last year and does gold work. His customers call him, and he flies to Psaras, buys the fish, cooks it and immediately sends it to their house. I saw more than 25 fish in a portion of his grill, while so many more were waiting in line.

There at the entrance of the market there is a separate cafe, the Kafellinion. Its owner, Konstantinos Bisoukis, is a sought-after friend of coffee and even a certified coffee tester and trainer, awarded in international coffee-making competitions, which in Naoussa maintains three shops, two coffee shops and a cafe. His worries are many. He himself introduces a Peruvian coffee, Cajamarca, and with it he dares to make various combinations, such as passing it through an oak barrel of black and white grappa or offering his Peruvian coffee, with chocolates - made by him - that have coffee beans, to make a drink, from petimezi, coffee beans and grapas (grapas in Naoussa are called tsipouro without anise) Xinomavrou. In fact, all these advanced things in Naoussa, Imathia!