Grocery of Thessaloniki

The Grocery of Thessaloniki is very dear to the city. In this rapidly changing data in our lives, in the economy and in trade it is very reassuring to see small family businesses endure but also play a leading role for three generations and especially in the field of trade, where for years the chains, large supermarkets.

Its price Thessaloniki has been saving for a century "The Grocery of Thessaloniki". Here you will really find the bird's milk, in a place that is full of products (healthy in the organic store, normal and sinful in the classic), smells, human and family service.

The family element is dominant, as at least three family members are here daily. THE George Sotiriadis with his wife Zoe and his daughter Jenny at the checkout - below the two photos of the ancestors Kosmas and Michalis Sotiriadis - they are always there with their noble staff to guide you to find the gastronomic treasures hidden in their shop.

The "journey" of the Grocery started from Samsun in 1922, with the Asia Minor catastrophe. THE Kosmas Sotiriadis, a 27-year-old refugee, settled in Thessaloniki and two years later opened the first store of the new, then Modiano market. The meraklidiko grocery store soon became a point of gastronomic reference and an unstoppable stop for the people of Thessaloniki and the visitors of the city.

Kosmas was worthily succeeded in 1968 by his son Michalis Sotiriadis and in 2000 the store is transferred to Vassileos Konstantinou and in 2010 to Komninon Street where they are now with their two stores of conventional and organic products. George Sotiriadis, the grandson of the founder, born in the smells and tastes, as soon as he was dismissed from the army in 1980, fell flat on his face at work and expanded the classic range of products to all gourmet Greek and international products.

On its shelves and refrigerators you will find a huge variety of items. Cheeses from the regions of the country but also of Europe, local cold cuts such as kavourmas Soufliou, sygklino Mani but also chorizo ​​of Spain and cold cuts of Italy. A large showroom with dozens of platters with pickles, pastries, seafood, including pickled eggplant, Chitsilavla of Chios, Pelima grit, Propontida tsiros, Amfilochia olives, mustards, etc.

Of course, there were also dozens of choices of foreign species and selected wines, sought-after pastries, rare mysterious chocolates, sweets or halves of special flavors. Of course the strongest part of the Grocery is in the basement "Ointments" sauces from all over the world and especially from the East.