Grandma's House in Lagoudi

Its picturesque village Zias is located on the slope of Mount Dikaios (Oromedon) and is the highest inhabited point of the island, at a distance of about 14km from the city Mr..

The village is surrounded by lush cypress forests, and having beautiful traditional houses with the classic island planning, managed to become a tourist destination and many visitors come to walk on the paved paths and eat in the taverns - local tastes are local flavors Oromedon.

Just before one reaches Zia one passes by Bunny a small village that we had visited a decade ago, recording the historic cafe, the Poor Hut of Dionysia Kalyva. This time outside Lagoudi, we discovered a new hangout that was doubly interesting. Historical and gastronomic.

Η Fanuria (Fani) the mother and her daughter h Bright in 2017 they returned to Kos after a long stay of the (since 1972) family in Nisyros, they received the old cafe that had been closed for years and the adjacent house where their grandmother lived Friday and decided to do it again.

The name of the cafe «Grandma's house».

The thread of life was caught again.

The renovation is tidy, the tables on the elevated terrace under the thick shade of the old medlar, and the view to the background, the sea and Kalymnos are abundant.

The girls have it pervolaki them, with the pomegranate vegetables, the eggs from their henhouse, the cheeses - the mizithra and the goat cheese - they make their own cheese, the honey is theirs. Fanouria has taken over the kitchen, Fotini the serving and Grandma Paraskevi in ​​a big photo, she sees the cafe coming to life again and she is happy.

The appetizers one by one: the cucumber tomato with capers, zucchini flowers with cheese and rice, dolmadas with oatmeal, fava beans, beets, field croquettes, triangles with mizithra, peppers with cheese, beef liver, bekri meze with pork, kahoridos, pork from a small winery. At the end decoction of marjoram accompanied by cookies or dessert.

Quiet, lonely away from the many, in the "Grandma's House" one will feel human. And of course to catch discussions with very interest, such as how the Nisyrian caper differs from the kotiki, in the foliage, in the fruit and in the taste!