We visited best taverns of Skiathos, who act as ambassadors of gastronomy of the island. Apart from the taverns that we present briefly - but also in detail if you refer to the relevant links - there are also other gastronomic hangouts on the island that are worth knowing. Like the first winery that opened in 2020 on the island and will definitely strengthen the gastronomic quiver of Skiathos, a shop that offers the traditional sweets of the island, an oven that makes besides bread with yeast, and many others, traditional pies and liopites and Finally, an initiative of the symbol hotel of Skiathos, Skiathos Palace to have its own orchard and in addition to vegetables to produce its own extra virgin olive oil.
All these efforts, by local passionate professionals, who honor their work and their clients, and work as ambassadors of the gastronomy of Skiathos, is a first sample and a first step, to get Skiathos the gastronomic identity and gastronomic glamor that she deserves.
Because gastronomy is one of the most decisive factors that support the tourist identity and economic development of any place.
Amfiliki Tavern
If a tavern in Skiathos should be entitled to one of the Greek Cuisine awards, it would be without the Amfiliki tavern. Because it is the one that offers more than any other the traditional Skiathos cuisine, that is, a marriage of fish and shellfish (that is what the Skiathites called the crayfish and the lobsters, because they did not have meat and did not fluff for satiety in the large families) with vegetables. Amfiliki is hidden near the Acropolis of Skiathos, high on the slope of the beach of Megali Ammos with a stunning view of the sea and the islands of Tsougria and Tsougriaki.
The tavern is managed by Christos Kalogiannis with his family (his sister Maria, his wife and daughter). Among their delicacies, there is a pounding of grouper with a tomato, a poem, the crayfish with zucchini, a delectable light and elegant taste, but also the ribs, a stew, and finally a smoked sklepouda (peskandritsa) liver.
Exantas restaurant
In a courtyard of a tidy small hotel without the high parchments of the four-star and five-star hotels, on a magic terrace overlooking the beautiful beach of Megali Ammos. is located at Exantas bar-restaurant a gastronomic oasis. And of course it is a shining example of the fact that good cuisine is not the result of investments and strong names, but of a deep and essential love for modern creative Greek cuisine and its creators.
His cuisine is really creative with many interests with the most special dish of the menu, fagri stew with onion textures that we believe has a place in the menu of any 3-star Michelin restaurant in the world!
Ammos Beach Restaurant
The Ammos Beach Restaurant it is located Skiathos Princess Resort, the five-star diva of the Skiathos hotel, on the beach of Agia Paraskevi that took its name from the homonymous church of Agia Paraskevi located there buried among tall plane trees.
On one of the most beautiful beaches of the island, known for its fine golden sand and crystal clear waters, awarded with a blue flag and in the beautiful white scenes, where guests enjoy the sunset, the restaurant Ammos Beach offers dishes based on Greek creative cuisine . From the menu, among others, the following stand out: the variety of ointments from fava, eggplant salad, taramosalata and tzatziki, the green salad with white tuna of Alonissos, the grilled octopus with fava, caramelized onions and oregano, the saganaki shrimp with ouzo and tomato.
Packed lunch
In a secluded and quiet neighborhood of the city of Skiathos, on Evangelistrias Street, a vertical alley of the busy main street Papadiamantis, is the Marmita, the restaurant that has starred for 10 years in the choices of gourmets of Skiathos.
We are in the restaurant of Dimitris Koliakos and Panos Stamoulis, the most talked about on the island. His kitchen is light all fresh, the aromas of the Mediterranean on your plate, all surprises and upheavals. Marmita is an oasis of imaginative gastronomy, in a discreet environment, of high aesthetic perception, good service, low tones and at very reasonable prices for the type!
Akrogiali Tavern
The Beach is a fish tavern on the sea shore of Skiathos town on the way to the airport, set on the sea on pillars on a wooden platform, covered with a roof, and offers a unique proximity to the sea wave. Akrogiali stands out, because it is always full, its staff permanent years, very noble with a service that enslaves, but also because it has the largest showcase of fresh fish.
Fresh fish, brought daily by fisherman friends to the shop owner. His kitchen Constantine It is rich, you will find everything, salads, oily, cooked, grilled, but its strong point is the seafood delicacies and fish. We recommend the fresh grilled octopus, mussel pilaf, fresh Alonissos tuna, souvlaki or swordfish fillet, lobster and shrimp, the cod plate that was delicious and of course everything that catches your eye from fish and seafood.
Diamond Beach Bar.
That's it Diamond Beach bar is a small informal club for those who are fed up with culture and services and want to live like Robinson Crusoe. Elegant wooden constructions, plank floors fastened to tree trunks, hammocks, waiters serving barefoot and generally a relaxed atmosphere, and guests something between Bobos (abbreviation for bourgeois-boheme) and Boho (for short) travel by boat to reach this pristine beach.
As for the cuisine, tzatziki, taramosalata, tuna salad, fava, marinated anchovies are served first, while the salad with zucchini presented as spaghetti pesto, and the kritama, vlita stand out from salads. Among the first most favorite are the fried squid breaded with two types of flour, lime, ginger and chili, the crayfish barley and the shrimp saganaki. As sloppy as the canteen space looks, the dishes are aesthetically pleasing and their flavors are interesting.
Beach House
The Beach House is located on Kolios beach 8 km from the town of Skiathos, which is protected from strong winds and the sea is most often as calm as a lake. It is one of the beaches that Alexandros Papadiamantis often mentions in his stories, as pink beaches, drowned in the green nature of Skiathos with the olives and pines reaching and shading the sea shore.
The kitchen of the Beach House has several dishes that have the aroma of the island, such as takalapodia (local pies with greens and fennel, fried in olive oil),
the smoked eggplant salad Roasted eggplant and Florin pepper, cherry vinegar fresh coriander and local chlorotyri
the green salad with slipper, local beans, zucchini and crispy pickled okra, cherry tomatoes, capers, Cretan sour cream, lemon oil and field mint from Skiathos
and salted anchovy bruschettas, with coriander oil, valerian and tarama mayonnaise foam
Batis Tavern
The tavern ο Batis is a family Skiathos tavern open most of the year - and this is very good for the islands, which just after the summer are deserted - and is located at the highest position on the steps of the old port, the most picturesque position of the city of Skiathos, below the thick shade cast by the huge plane trees on the waterfront, the guests have a great view of the fishing boats and the Bourtzi in the background.
The food is honest Greek cuisine, where we singled out: homemade ointments (tzatziki, taramolasata, hot cheese, garlic), cheese croquettes, shrimp croquettes (fresh shrimp, mixed with kakalithres and lapata), fried shrimp and shrimps, sardos dishes, the most popular are spaghetti with seafood, such as lobster spaghetti, fish, squid, thrapsala and saganaki shrimp.
Taverna Anatoli
Just outside the city of Skiathos, in the area of Kalivia away from its cosmopolitan and tourist restaurants-taverns, on the top of a hill with abundant sea views and NE to Skopelos and in the background Alonissos we will meet a fairytale tavern, The East. A place where everything has a point of view and a beautiful folk aesthetic.
The main dishes in the East are the cooked, rooster, local goat - pure Turkish delight -, oily, squid, fish. But appetizers also have character. Twisted pies, giaprakia, smyrnika soutzoukaki with plenty of cinnamon, zucchini flowers stuffed with rice and spices, tsitsiravla and kritama that accompany the sour gabbro, cheese pies in the pan with pa in them, , in the pan like chips!
Beach Bar - Restaurant Porto Paradiso
The beach bar - restaurant Porto Paradiso is located in the southern part of Skiathos, on the beach Vromolimnos and is considered one of the most interesting of the island, known for the beauty of its location, the very good food, drink, fun and unique moments that it has been offering for 40 years, from when it was set up by Kyriakos, the owner of the store.
Satisfying fresh salads, a poem taramosalata, barley with seafood, octopus, with fava, local squid, grilled shrimp and more. Of course, there are also the protagonists of the 80's, the symbol of the store, the famous sardines in new, but sought-after variations by Tasso Sega a talented Thessaloniki chef who presents a creative cuisine, summer, reference to the cuisine of the Aegean.
Beach Bar - Restaurant Tarsanas
Ο Tarsanas in Kechries is a place of peace, a place without music, a forgotten paradise. Purified by beauty, at the mouth of the small river - which has water in winter and summer - you meet a beautiful and sweet sandy beach after a magnificent 12km route. where in the old days a shipyard operated. This name was chosen by Argyris to make his paradise.
The river water is also used for showering after the sea bath, which comes out through a sculpture wooden construction. Plenty of cool water, wash as long as you want, without worrying about spending it. Argyris put the same taste in food. Not many things, but unique. Two boats bring from the shore, direct day fish, lobsters and octopuses, but often you will also find various shells. Salads, seafood spaghetti, a beautiful wine list where the bottled wine of the island is not missing.
Koubourelia ouzo
The Koubourelia ouzo is an old and good tsipouro restaurant identified with Skiathos, the old port, its patrons, its owners, and the history of the island. Since then, the owners may have changed and it was renewed externally, but its appetizers and the good Thessalian tsipoura not only do not change but are also enriched. And it's one of the shops on the island most of the year, and that's a big deal.
As an ouzo-tavern of all times, but also of all tastes here you will find the typical cooked foods such as beef stew, beef juvette (to remember the juvettes of Papadiamantis), soutzoukaki, moussakades and pastitsia, as well as seafood fish sold by the kilo. However, some of its delicacies, such as fish stew, are particularly fanatical.
The Grocery Store
One of the relatively new presences on the island won the first impressions of locals and visitors. With the image and aesthetics of an old grocery store with all its goodies -old classic cans- inside the room is spacious and atmospheric, while its terrace and platform on the sea are beautifully landscaped.
The appetizers one by one, mainly seafood, Alonissos tuna, cuttlefish with spinach, crayfish, fried red mullet, sardines, saganaki shrimp without missing and meat appetizers such as soutzoukaki. Beyond that, whatever kind of fish one desires, from the first to the last, but delicious.
Good well
At a distance of 500 meters from the beach, hidden behind the school, is the Good Well, the ouzo of fishermen, workers and some "wanted". Nothing sophisticated, nothing fancy. A gabled tent that operates from March to December - the rest of the time people are crowded inside the store - and a net on the wall, a popular decoration, to remind the origin of the appetizers.
Skewers of garlic, cuttlefish with zucchini, incredibly delicious shrimp meatballs, cuttlefish eggs, lyres (skiathitic zucchini), octopus vinegar, roasted tuna, salad, fava with sour anchovies…
Megas Gialos
Ο Megas Gialos is a family tavern in Korakofolia 3km NW of Skiathos town. Indeed, this place looks like a crow's nest because it is located at the top of a hill, above the homonymous beach of Mega Gialos.
The orientation of the tavern is north and east and the view is beautiful, as it faces the North Aegean and Skopelos, while at its feet is the airport runway. So every now and then you see the modern birds take off to return the visitors of Skiathos to their homeland, without of course the buzz of takeoff spoiling the peace of the landscape for more than half a minute.
plane tree
H Platanos tavern is located high above the city of Skiathos, buried in the forest by the plane trees that surround the old spring that supplied water, gardens and people, between the churches of Prophet Elias and Prophet Elisha.
It is no coincidence that all travelers who travel to the beautiful interior of the island stop to get the drops of coolness and the view of the vastness of the sea. At the same time they can try beautiful appetizers, salads, vegetables from the surrounding gardens, the irresistible Skiathos cheese pie or vegetable pie and other magical or grilled foods,
Agnantio
Above the airport, one kilometer from the town of Skiathos on the road to the monastery of Vangelistra, years ago Mrs. Roula set up Agnantio, her tavern, and everyone went to enjoy her cooking, the lamb in the hull, the octopus stew and Skopelos pies, and admire panoramic city and airport views.
The years passed and the new generation of the Giannitsi family renewed the position of the tavern with a very pleasantly successful renovation and with fresh presentations of classic dishes (such as moussaka) and some more special and attractive proposals. However, the traditional coconut Skiathos baklava with ice cream is preserved as a dessert!
Bourtzi
Bourtzi is a fortress founded by the brothers from Giza in the 13th century on the small peninsula, which divides the port of Skiathos in two. The fortress was destroyed in 1660 when the Venetian Admiral Francis Morosini occupied the island. After the liberation, in Bourtzi it first functioned as a disinfectant of the island, while in 1906 a primary school was built in the center of the peninsula, donated by Andreas Syggros.
Since the 1960s, a section of it has been given for fun and has gone through many phases and uses, from discos (sung by Charms and later famous singers). Today it is in its best version, where in a really rare place of recreation, overgrown with pine trees, always cool, with a magnificent view, is housed the Bourtzi, where in a very discreet atmosphere, carefully decorated you can drink your cocktail and taste sought after appetizers.
Paris Winery
Built 100 meters above the prophet Elias, a small church on the slopes of the mountain located in the back of the city of Skiathos and in a lush forest of pines, spruce and plane trees, on a plateau where a vineyard was planted, the Paris winery stands as a small architectural jewel. Its creator is Giannis Parissis, an amateur little viticulturist who over time became a passionate friend and wine producer and in his fifties a professional winemaker.
Thirty acres of vineyards - which grow every year -, a modern winery with a capacity of 30.000 bottles, oenologist of Skiathos origin Katerina Mitzelou, who has worked in Santorini at the Sigala winery, tasting areas, tasteful, view that is not satisfied and two owners o Giannis and Maria are creative, hardworking and loving, willing to make you feel beautiful.
Red mullet
The Red mullet in Skiathos is the first cocktail bar, with 100% Greek drinks, of the island and one of the most interesting in the Aegean. It is located at the end of the pier of the old port, towards Plakes, between the shops of the fish market (its name suggests its location).
The cocktails that stand out are:
Aegean Sour Ouzo with homemade honey and pepper syrup, passion fruit and aromatic bitters.
Shining & Stormy Silk and tangerine liqueur in combination with vanilla and ginger beer
Brousko Red wine and Chios mastic in combination with syrup and strawberry
Flower of Gialos
Η Joan and I'm dying (and her daughter matron) active members of the Skiathos Women's Association, created in 2020 in the settlement of Skiathos a puppet workshop, the Flower of Gialos to offer to the visitors of the island, but also to the locals the traditional sweets of the island.
And while the macaroons you can find them in all the Aegean islands - the almond trees are the only fruitful ones, together with the figs that do not need water -, what distinguishes and characterizes Skiathos is the heimali. With frequent references to the short stories of the two short story writers of the island (Al. Papadiamantis, Al. Moraitidis) the amulet is a fried dough, stuffed with walnut, honey, bread crumbs, cinnamon and nutmeg which with excess art is made in a shape like a pouch, which at the end is sprinkled with powdered sugar.
Mamma Mia pastry & bakery shops
The codes and products produced in Mamma Mia pastry & bakery shops is a lot because there is a large audience that has various modern needs from confectionery. THE Fanis but he insists and among other things tries to promote the delicacies of his place.
Yeast bread and fine flour, cheese pies, vegetable pies, pumpkin pies and bread crumbs (made by the Italians). I was very happy to meet such professionals, because it is not easy to start your day at two in the morning and be focused on quality.
Skiathos Palace
That's it Skiathos Palace is not only the largest and most commercial hotel of Skiathos, above the most beautiful beach of the island of Koukounaries, but also the most historic, and the one that has connected its activities with the tourist development of the island for 50 years.
The two sons of the pioneer founder of the band Taki Derveni, Aris and Petros As part of the quality upgrade of their hotel, they created a farm with all kinds of vegetables (tomatoes, peppers, aubergines, cucumbers, etc.) that cater to their kitchen, while they standardized their own extra virgin oil, in collaboration with an olive mill. Skopelos.
The best taverns and gastronomic hangouts of Skiathos - Greek Gastronomy Guide
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