casual dining
At Patras In recent years I have spent the night 3-4 times invited by different friends, for different reasons - always with a gastronomic interest (conferences, workshops, etc.). In all cases for dinner - to please me I imagine - they took me to the same restaurant 5-6 km from the city center, ie to Rio.
There, overlooking the impressively illuminated Rio-Antirio bridge, is theNautical eco»A shop on the beach of Rio with a beautiful atmosphere, excellent cuisine and very good service. All the time I left satisfied, always dedicating, after dinner and wine drinking, ten minutes to admire on the beach this insurmountable technological achievement of the bridge,
Restaurant owner ο Spyros Stergiou, a leading and renowned creator of modern Greek cuisine in the area of Patras.
Spyros started his activity in 1988 with “Mouragio”A gourmet tavern in Kastellokampos and for 15 years it was the best in the gastronomy of Patras. The 2005 created the "Nautical ecoWhile in the beginning it had a very successful catering department mainly for social events.
"My parents and grandparents were tavern owners and I grew up in the kitchens, my food was not milk but patsozumi!", Spyros tells us laughing and continues: "I had the germ from a young age, and later I traveled every year abroad where there was good food to learn and follow the new trends".
"Naut-eco" is a restaurant of high aesthetics - Spyros also has an artistic nature - with cuisine developed with a wide variety of salads, pies, pasta and grilled dishes moves in the field of Greek creative cuisine with many Mediterranean references (mainly Italian). Also, in addition to its good quality food, and rich wine list, it is famous for its very nice and exuberant sweets!
It is no coincidence that it became a haunt of mainly university - due to the adjacent University - middle class but also students and those who have gastronomic concerns. The prices are very good in relation to the quality Value for money and its dishes - even the most sophisticated - do not exceed the price of 9 euros!
From his dishes we singled out:
- Raw broccoli and cauliflower with citrus and mustard vinegar, sweet garlic and parmesan,
- Rocket with mushrooms, sun-dried tomatoes, marinated cream cheese and prosciutto in Arabic pie,
- Pie with eggs and parmesan,
- Papardelles with wild rocket, thyme pesto, sun-dried tomatoes, chorizo and broken gorgonzola.
- Seafood risotto,
- Barley with shrimp,
- Turkey fillet, with hot mustard sauce, pine nuts and brandy.
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