Two years have passed since the day we started with dreams to contribute with our forces to the promotion of Greek gastronomy. We achieved several of our goals. It seems there were enough to recognize our work. We were happy for his overall activity the Greek Gastronomy Guide won the Golden Award at the Tourism Awards 2018 in the category Digital Destination Guides (DIGITAL TOURISM).

We submit for information the support file of GGG's nomination in the Tourism Awards 2018, thanking those who voted for us, our supporting companies, as well as those who read us daily or those who are informed by us.

Greek Gastronomy Guide

O Guide of Greek Gastronomy - Greek Gastronomy Guide (GGG) - is a "live" website that aims to inform its visitors about the treasures of our gastronomic culture.

This is the first time she has Greek Gastronomy is treated and viewed through a site:

1st) as one of the most important elements of the culture of our country. 

2nd) with a holistic an approach that includes everything that makes up the gastronomic wealth of each place.

The recording of the treasures of Greek gastronomy it contains the historical approach of the gastronomy of each place until the recent one traditional cuisine, The local products to producers their, the local markets and festival made to promote them. The following are described delicacies and the places where they are offered (taverns, restaurants, cafes, festivals), hotels and hostels who as ambassadors of local gastronomy have formed a clientele that moves in its premises gastronomic tourism and finally sights (festivals, landscapes, places and museums), where the traveler can complete the overall picture of the gastronomic landscape.

All this information is listed by region, so that each place is presented as gastronomic destination, with a passport to its gastronomic culture, which is essentially the culture of everyday life.

The content of the website greekgastronomyguide.gr is a result on-site research, recording and photography with personal interview and site visit by George Pitta who has been traveling all over Greece for 25 years and captures the most uncharted topics of Greek gastronomy - part of which is contained in his 6 books - and from her research Bilios Tsoukalas, when since 2003 in its TV shows on ERT it first presented the producers of local products of the Greek province.

Ο George Pittas left his mark on Tourism and Gastronomy, when as a member of the Board of the Hotel Chamber in 2010-2018 he was the inspirer and head of Hellenic Breakfast, the program that connected hotels with local production of each place, resulting in 1000 hotels using agri-food products of their area.

In its two years of operation, the Greek Gastronomy Guide recorded 45 gastronomic destinations, presented 8 national and 40 local products, met 160 producers, 70 local delicacies with their recipes, visited 300 taverns, restaurants, cafes, located 20 festivals, 40 local markets, 100 attractions, interviewed by 25 important Greek chefs and presented 300 articles on current gastronomy issues.

The selection criteria of its protagonists GGG she was authenticity, the taste and obsession with its values locality and quality. Each presentation includes an interview of about 400 words in two languages ​​- Greek & English - ten original photos and location on the map.

The Gastronomic Guide of Greece (GGG) coexists with restaurants of high gastronomy, popular taverns and tsipouro restaurants of the neighborhood, humble taverns and cafes from the most remote parts of the country, to large food export companies, but also made with family households (all present zero cost for those presented).    

From 2017 the Greek Gastronomy Guide started to implement the program, to coordinate the protagonists of each place and to organize them in Gastronomic Communities. Because we believe - a belief based on our acquaintance with the people who fight and create in this country - that a weighty opinion and initiative for the development of gastronomy in every place, should have the civil society and let alone the creators themselves.

From 2018 the Greek Gastronomy Guide in collaboration with SETE, INSETE and Marketing Greece created the project Gastronomic Destinations in order to upgrade the quality and enrich the tourist product of pilot areas through gastronomy. The leading role in this project will be played by the local Gastronomic Communities. For this reason, the actions of the project will try to contribute to the strengthening of the Gastronomic Communities, so that they will be the main lever for the development and formation of their cultural and tourist identity of the destination.