CityBest April – June, September – October

Athens

A city that puts the Acropolis in your peripheral vision and gets on with dinner.

Everyone circles Plaka and the tourist strip below the Acropolis. The city Athenians actually eat in sits a short walk further out — residential, unpolished, and considerably better value.

Neighbourhoods in Athens

Neighbourhood

Pangrati

A residential neighbourhood behind the Panathenaic Stadium, local enough that most visitors walk straight past it.

Logged in Athens

Tavern4.3(3,152)

Diporto

Athens, Greece

An unmarked basement taverna under Athens's Central Market, feeding traders and locals since 1887.

Meze restaurant4.6(4,606)

Mavro Provato

Athens, Greece

A Pangrati taverna serving Greek classics with unusual precision, and service locals still talk about.

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Tavern4.3(3,152)

Diporto

Athens, Greece

An unmarked basement taverna under Athens's Central Market, feeding traders and locals since 1887.

Meze restaurant4.6(4,606)

Mavro Provato

Athens, Greece

A Pangrati taverna serving Greek classics with unusual precision, and service locals still talk about.

Country

Greece

A country where the best table is rarely the one with the view.