![]() ![]() You'll find exceptional olive oil, homemade ouzo, kritharaki (local orzo-like pasta) and an incredible variety of sweet treats. Heading back towards the covered market, you come to Strounga Tou Moria, a cheese shop that draws crowds eager to get their hands on its range of delicious feta and cheeses from the different regions of Greece.Īfter lunch, you might like to head to Ergon House Athens, a hotel that has brought to life a surprising concept: the ground floor is dedicated to a huge "marketplace" bursting with delicious Greek produce. Just next door, Miran has a wide selection of charcuterie and cured meats from all over the country. Not far away, Evripidou is lined with food shops, including Fotsi, where you'll find all the herbs of the maquis and the mountains, from rosemary and thyme to immortelle. Then there's the fruit and vegetable market, its stalls loaded with wonderful olives, sun-dried tomatoes, courgette flowers and aubergines. ![]() The unique spectacle of the meat market next to it is remarkable, too. The fish market is particularly impressive with its huge stalls crammed with octopus, sea bass, sea bream and red mullet. Organised by foodstuff, its various sections are a cook's dream. Just a few minutes' walk from Mokka is Athens Central Market, one of the liveliest markets in Europe. Next to the coffee bar, and well worth a visit, is the roastery, where coffees from all over the world are roasted. Mokka, a coffee roaster on Athinas, in the vicinity of the covered market, still prepares it in this way, for you to drink either black or with sugar. Traditionally, it is drunk "Greek style" – made the old-fashioned way in a briki, a small copper coffee pot. In Athens, the only way to kick off the day is with a good cup of coffee.
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