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Looking for light and tasty dishes with a quick turn-around time? Or perhaps a power lunch to close the deal? Here, you’ll find the right setting for either! An assortment of decors from casual and sporty to sophisticated and businesslike. You may also find the option of ordering take-out food.
Category: Lunch - Athens Restaurants
Address: Zappeion Gardens, off Amalias Ave, Athens
This chic bistro, located in beautiful Zappion Gardens, is popular with well-heeled Athenian families. In the mornings they stop for pastries, juice, and coffee. After a few hours playing in the gardens, they bring their children for refreshing ice creams. In the evenings, before visiting the nearby open-air cinema, they stop for appetizers of...
Category: Lunch - Athens Restaurants
Address: 2 Themistokleous St, Athens
Greek mezedes are similar to Spanish tapas – savory appetizers ordered in combination to make a meal. This spot has specialized in them since its inception in 1932 and is a favorite lunch and dinner haunt with local lawyers who work in the courts near Omonia Square. Sample grilled squid or hearty loukanika (sausages), along with patsanga (spicy...
Category: Lunch - Athens Restaurants
Address: 12 Lissiou St, Athens
Almost every restaurant in Athens offers vegetarian dishes, many of them based on eggplant. You'll find something entirely different, though, at Eden, Athens' only all-vegetarian restaurant. Veggies and grains are organically grown, maximizing quality and health properties. They're fashioned into large, filling salads and dishes like mushroom pie...
Category: Lunch - Athens Restaurants
Address: 46 Panepistimiou St, Athens
Ideal specializes in Greek comfort food, just like Grandma used to make. The house specialty is silky avgolemono soup; other popular dishes include stuffed peppers, leek croquettes, and lamb with spinach. For something really memorable, try Smyrnaika tsouotsoukakia, which flavors spicy meat patties with ouzo and cumin. The oldest restaurant in...
Category: Lunch - Athens Restaurants
Address: 4 Milioni St, Athens 10673
This hip spot is popular with the Kolonaki fashion crowd, Athens' young professionals, and homesick American tourists. Barber chairs, cigar store Indians, and other western memorabilia decorate the premises. Stop in early for fresh-squeezed juice or a specialty coffee. Popular lunches include the caesar salad and house special club sandwich. At...
Category: Lunch - Athens Restaurants
Address: 26 Loukianou, Athens
This spot is one of the most popular eateries in fashionable Kolonaki, so don't be fooled by the name – it's a bistro, not a coffee shop! Dark wood walls and candlelight make it an especially good spot for a romantic dinner. House favorites include marinated octopus, onion pie with dill, and artichokes la polita. Vegetarians relish stuffed squash...
Category: Lunch - Athens Restaurants
Address: 2 Ermou, Athens
When you say "fast food" to Athenians, they think "souvlaki" rather than burgers and fries. This chain of restaurants, located throughout the city, makes some of the best. Specialties are chicken Loxandra, a roasted chicken breast served in a homemade pita, and pita Loxandra, which features the same great pita bread stuffed with lamb liver and...
Category: Lunch - Athens Restaurants
Address: 1 Dorou St, Athens
This is the original restaurant in a chain of cafeterias that has spread across Athens. (There are also Neons in Kolonaki, at Syntagma Square, and in Zea Marina.) Each one offers serve-yourself salad bars, buffet-style meat dishes, and a variety of sandwiches and desserts. Casual dress.
Category: Lunch - Athens Restaurants
Address: 4 Diogenous, Athens
It's easy to see how this spot – popular since the 1930s – got its name. "Platanos" means "plane tree" in Greek, and outdoor tables are shaded by a giant specimen. Inside, walls are decorated with paintings and old photographs, but don't let that distract you from the superb, home-cooked food. Start with crisp green beans marinated in olive oil,...
Category: Lunch - Athens Restaurants
Address: 22 Timoleondos Vassou St, Andromeda Athens Hotel, Athens
Perfect Polynesian food, with Chinese and Thai accents, is served at this chic boutique hotel's restaurant. Leopard-print chairs give the refined dining room an exotic splash, and the kitchen has elevated spring rolls to an art form – definitely try these crispy, five spice-seasoned snacks. Main courses can be mild or wild. Sweet-and-sour chicken...
