Cafe - Winery Giosifaki

Η Weights is one of its largest villages Syros and is located at the southeastern tip of the island, 9 km from Ermoupolis. Its main feature is the relatively developed rural life - much smaller of course compared to the past - something that can be seen in the plain with reeds and traces of old manganese wells, farmhouses, and cisterns.

The bay of Vari is a typical Syrian landscape, hills embrace the bay with rocky beaches and the sandy beach in the background.

On this sandy beach, the 1958 the first cafe was built - then there were no laws about the seashore, the landscape was pristine, so was the law, and so came these magnificent buildings where the sea bursts at their feet and we now 60 years later enjoy the splashing of the wave next to us .

The “Cafe - Wine Kitchen: The Giosifaki of Geor. Sargologou ” - as described by an exquisite folk inscription of that time - passed from father Joseph to son George and then to grandson Joseph, where last year due to illness the store was given to Raphael Stefanou, the store cook for six years.

A young child, Raphael, born and raised in Syria, worked as a coffee maker for 18 years and together with his girlfriend Lili, Athena, who fell in love with him for his character and his cooking, made the decision by employees to become entrepreneurs. Great risk.

We tried their food. Grill strong on fish coming from the glass. Of the cooked ones, the pork with cabbage and the lemony Syrian sausage with potatoes were excellent. The same goes for the saganaki San Michalis, the Syrian salad (cherry tomatoes, barley nut, panaki cheese, capers, louza) or fried atherina with onion and the bouillabaisse. Serving polite and warm.

Leaving, the beginners taught us a great lesson.

Apart from the new imaginative chefs and the new restaurants that raise the level of creative Greek cuisine, there are also local cuisines with their traditional dishes and the typical products of each place.

The simple Greek lentil that should not be sacrificed on the altar of originality, high cuisine and easy or complex impressions!

And this lentil tries to serve it Giosisfaki and we wish him good luck.