The Food of Athens

Obviously anyone who knows me knows I love. Also considering the title of this blog mentions pastries, you have to have caught on that I like food. A lot.

Greece had the amazing food that I was expecting. And luckily two wonderful eatery options were only a few minutes walk from out hotel.

The first was the amazing local gyro place that I mentioned in a previous post. Can never get enough of a good gyro. And if you've never had one, you need to rectify that. The square yellow food next to the gyro in the pic is a local regional cheese that is oh so amazing. I absolutely cannot remember the name if it for the life of me. It's essentially fried cheese, which you then sprinkle some lemon over. The texture is a bit rubbery, bit it's just delicious.


The other place we frequented was a nice little restaurant called Alexander the Great. The owner was very personably and friendly. He came and talked with us, and gave us lots of free baklava. By the time we left Athens we didn't need to eat baklava for a while. It was delicious.

This is also the restaurant were I got some wonderful moussaka, a fantastic eggplant appetizer, and some tzatzik. I love Greek food!
  




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While walking through the more central city part of Athens, my friend took my to this other little spot where she promised they had some amazing food. I wasn't at all hungry, but I was going to fit in as much of the good stuff as I could. She took me to this little place called Oven Sesame.


They have a variety of sandwich type options that are all made and toasted on this happy face shaped bread. The genius part? That bottom part of the happy face lip is a handle. It's a bread handle you can hold onto while you eat the sandwich part. Genius!! And of course the sandwich filling is also fresh and yummy veggies, meat, and spices. All at a really affordable price. They're strawberry fruit juice was also pretty fantastic too. I wish the states had more places like this around. Fresh, cheap, and delicious.