The cafes, as their name suggests, are the places where people drink it brown their. The cafes of the Greek countryside, however, were gradually transformed into the heart of the male society of every place. Men's meeting places, places of games and pleasures, places of meeting and socializing, places of information but also of political confrontations, cafes, the "small parliaments of the country", are at the same time places of professional transactions and parties, as they are the between each village and the outside world. And this is where every browser will see, learn all the current news and get the answers to their questions.

In cafes we will discover them appetizers, the special feature of the food culture of Greece, the small taste temptations, which differ from place to place. They are served in small dishes before the main meal or at intervals during the day to accompany the consumption of drink (ouzo, raki or beer). In many cafes in the Greek countryside you could say: "what drink and what appetizer were served, to tell you where you are". THE variety of appetizers It varies depending on the area, its gastronomic tradition, the type of cafe (mountain or coastal), the type of patrons (farmers, fishermen, stockbreeders) but also the season, because many delicacies are seasonal. The appetizers are usually: nuts, rusks, slices of bread, tomato, cucumber, capers, pickles, cloves, raw artichokes, french fries or roasts, local cheeses, local olives, cold cuts, salted fish, eggplant salad, salad and salads or even the lentil of the coffee maker himself.

A lot cafes of the Greek countryside are monuments of art and take us to other eras. So are their owners who maintain the ethos of a lost world.

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