Barba Giannis and Maritsa

The winery-cafe "Barba Giannis and Maritsa», As is its full title on the tasteful colorful sign at the entrance of the store, you will find it in the middle of the main pedestrian street of Chora Skyros. There, on the road to Megali Strata of the village, if you sit down to drink your coffee or eat its appetizers, you will enjoy like nowhere else the carnival events of "bells”. A strategic position both for the Carnival that the custom comes to life on the island, and for the whole year since you are in the middle of the parade.

The history of the kitchen-cafe dates back to 1954 happily counting over 60 years of life.

The daughter of Barba Giannis and Maritsa, Anna, has been cooking in the kitchen for years., with vegetables from Skyrian orchards and local meat. It is famous for its delicious food and its amazing strapatsada with eggs from their cotoules, but also the famous teroptaria (trachanopita stuffed with rice, local trachana and mizithra), the oil pie of (Skyros specialty) made of fluffy dough and served with Skyrian cheese. It is also famous for its libidinal meatballs with plenty of mint and chopped onion. Mrs. Anna constantly surprises you, both with the crunchy pumpkin meatballs, with the delicious omelette with the local potatoes, the frying pan, the fried bread, as well as with the local fava, dako and saganaki shrimp. For dessert you try its rice pudding or fly to the nearby Faltaina to get its amazing ice creams with local milk.

And if you are lucky and one of the last guests of the day in Maritsa, you will be able to meet Mrs. Anna who, although exhausted, will not deprive you of a taste of her explosive temperament.