Tsikali in Vathi

Η Tsikali family tavern operates from 1983 on Deep of Sifnos, now 35 years have passed. It was a time when there was no road in Vathi and its visitors came with boats either from Kamares or from Platys Gialos.

At that time o Nikos Frazeskaros Born in Sifnos but with a distant origin from Crete, he was an electrician on the boats of Marcos Nomikos for 5-6 years, and after he had traveled the world, Argentina, Mexico, Cuba, he decided to land on his island. He received a small cafe, with a telephone booth of the time, in the middle of the beach, without knowing how to cook and between the two taverns located at both ends of the beach, he built a tavern. He called Nikiforos a cook friend with knowledge and with his mother in the kitchen he started his new life. Since then three generations of the Frazeskaro family, with love, passion and a lot of care, created the reputation of perhaps the best tavern of Sifnos.

Tsikali is built on the beach, two steps from the picturesque church of Agioi Taxiarches. Here, under the thick shade of the tamarisk trees and the wooden pergola, one can enjoy the wonderful view of the calm sea and taste the recipes of the shop. The visitors here are regular and many of them remember "Tsikali" from the time when it was accessible only by sea. They know that here they will taste the wonderful pot goat with Sifnos and dill wine, the oregano rabbit, the baked pork with cheese, tomato and pepper and their traditional chickpea meatballs, cheese meatballs (from local cheese), caper salad, eggplant salad, wood oven oven revidatha. Fish lovers will only taste it fresh (when available), they will even eat the sauce from the delicious fresh cod with lemon sauce in the pan.

They have big hits the pies of Mrs. Flora, of his wife, with the handmade sheet, such as the spinach pie - with cheese - and her wonderful lemon and almond pies.

Nikos' obsession with pure ingredients led him to create a farm on the slopes overgrown with thyme, rope and olives of Vathi, in the area of ​​Vounaki, with water supply from the area of ​​Hochlaki. Mr. Nikos may have become a tavern owner, he did not forget his art. As an electrician he has installed photovoltaics and thus has provided energy for the milk ice cubes and the milking machines. No we are not playing. So with the quality of his own animals, pork, goats and rabbits guaranteed, he can use in his kitchen the most organic and pure.

Recently certified and cheese factory then its production in tyrovoli, xinomyzithra (xinotyri) and in manoura can be sold in Athens. And he enjoys his progress and his two boys George and Dimitris who will continue the work.