Sea

At most half an hour from her city Of Tinos and at the feet of Kardiani is the bay of Ysternia. Literally on the sea, on an old pier, on the edge of a delicious sandy beach - which pulls you before you eat to take a dip in the sea - is the Thalassaki restaurant.

"The port of Ysternia had its glories until 50 years ago. The communication of West Tinos with Piraeus or with the city was done by boat. Then the road was built (1972), the villages were united with Chora and the port was deserted. The shop here used to function as a cafe, customs, agency, telephone exchange and we bought it with Antonia in 1997. In April 2000, the inauguration took place ".

Ο Aris Tatsis he tells us that together with his wife Antonia Zarpa they decided not to live in Athens, to set up their nest here and to revitalize the place. Fifteen years later, the Sea is the best the Tinos in the field of gastronomy. And where can one imagine that little Antonia, with studies of social worker and with apprenticeship of photography in Plato Rivelis, would become one of the best cooks in Greece!

The restaurant is simple, bowing to the landscape, with discreet touches of Antonia's artistic concerns. The menu (menu) of food and wines, inspired in the shape of a fish.

Antonia's kitchen creative, impressive, aromatic (uses her garden herbs), but with absolute respect for the form of the materials (without foams and so on), presses firmly on local products and to traditional cuisine of Tinos.

They appear every year more and more new recipes But I describe the ones that happened to me in the summer of 2015:

Smoked reggae salad, creamy taramosalata, local cheese with pollen in the shape of Tinian cheese pie, vegetables that are baked and placed on top of each other and reminiscent of Tinian dry stone, honeyed baked octopus with petimezi, cod in various variegated raki.

Of course, there is no lack of seafood pasta in imaginative combinations and well-cooked juicy fish. The wine list is rich with local wines Christou Fonsou and Tinian Vineyards and others sought from all over the territory, while Antonia is again in the sweet embroidery.

The most important! Book a table before you go because especially in summer it becomes a waste!