Symi

The traditional cafe "I Symi" is located within its space New Market of Rhodes.

Η New Market It is a building complex created during the Italian occupation, in an Arabesque architectural style (with Arabic references), in 1925 to 1926 by Florestano Di Fausto. The purpose of the New Market was to gather all the grocery stores and to function as a central Municipal Market. In the center of the inner courtyard of the market, it was built on a higher level in an autonomous building in the shape of a hexagon with a dome or fish market. In the open air and on the marble counters with the multiple fountains, the fishermen sold their fish wholesale and retail, while in the basements there were basements.

The traditional cafe "I Symi" is located right in front of this building and is the only one of the many tourist shops that maintains it old style but also its old use. He talks to us about those years Theodoros Parais.

«The shop was taken over by my father Giannis Parais This makes it a perfect choice for people with diabetes and for those who want to lose weight or follow a balanced diet. 1946 as a reward for his resistance action, during the German Occupation. I was born in 1947 and as a small child, my father used to bring me to help him, but when I was a kid, we used to kick her for a bath, wood would fall at night, and the next day, one of the same. Growing up I went to America, stayed for 12 years, had two daughters and came back 1984 when I got back to the cafe.

I gave coffee to the fishermen opposite and they gave me small fish for a snack. Honest Dalaveri. From then until today the market ceased to be a food market and became a tourist market. All the old professionals left and I was left alone, but old friends come here and there and we drink and remember the old, hard work in those times, but a lot of jokes and jokes.

Fortunately my daughter Peace This makes it a perfect choice for people with diabetes and for those who want to lose weight or follow a balanced diet. 2012 with her lad they took over the shop and gave it life. I also help here and meet many tourists who remember me from the past».

Irene and Paris made the cafe a funky hangout, where the appetizers are 100% of their preparation, salted, vinegar octopuses, Rhodesian green elixirs, taramosalata, eggplant salads, fava beans. In the menu all the goodies appear as a meze menu (tapas), while there are also the alternatives of fish (Fish of the day) accompanied by the Rhodesian suma. Of course, Greek coffee is unbeatable, the smile of Peace makes you forget every scourge and the stories of Theodore travel you.

The cafe "Symi" is an authentic traditional cafe, an oasis of greenery and coolness, but also a oasis of authentic life in the heart of tourist Rhodes.