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Passage of the day

Just as the earliest tinges of the dawn flushed the eastern sky and turned the pillared Parthenon to a broken harp hung in the pearly horizon

Mark Twain · The Innocents Abroad

Formal dining room with striped cream and brown walls, gilt chandeliers under red shades, a fluted Corinthian column, damask armchairs and white-clothed tables set with candles and wine glasses.

GastronomyThessaloniki

A winter dining room out on the airport road, behind a casino door

Alfredo’s Grand Dining sits in the private area of Regency Casino Thessaloniki, out at the 12th kilometre of the airport road, and it opens only from October to April, for dinner, to guests over 21.

9 October 2026

Restaurant terrace at dusk, tables laid with white cloths, glasses and small lamps, folding timber doors open on to a warmly lit interior with a wood floor and framed drawings

GastronomyCorfu

Aristos, the French room named for Onassis above the Kommeno olive groves

9 October 2026

A curved marble counter set for dinner on a mosaic floor, seen from a landing above, with brass-footed stools below and a green marble column behind

GastronomyThessaloniki

Clochard’s third address is a 1920s bank

9 October 2026

An open-sided dining room with laid tables, leather and linen chairs and rows of pendant lamps, looking out past palms to the Ionian and the mainland mountains beyond

GastronomyCorfu

The Corfu room that gave the kitchen its name

9 October 2026

The Salonika dining room at Makedonia Palace, gold-lined sculptural pendants hung over oval tables and patterned armchairs, a full-height window wall looking past white parasols to the Thermaic Gulf

GastronomyThessaloniki

Salonika, and the kitchen that cooks its own region

9 October 2026

Tables laid on the flagstones of Kremasti Square around the carved stone Venetian well, the ochre facade of the restaurant lit behind it at dusk

GastronomyCorfu

Dinner around the well on Kremasti Square

9 October 2026

A timber dining deck roofed in grey jutting from a wooded shore into clear green water, sunbeds and blue umbrellas on the planks, and the resort's pools and palms on the slope behind

GastronomyCorfu

Yali Seafood, the Corfu Imperial table that stands on the water at Kommeno

9 October 2026

A long dining room behind floor-to-ceiling glass, lined with pale stone columns and a low banquette, tables laid with candles, olive trees and mountains beyond the windows.

GastronomyPorto Heli

The Japanese room on the hill above Porto Heli

8 October 2026

Round tables set with white linen along both sides of an infinity pool on a cliff terrace, the caldera, the volcano island and a cruise ship beyond them at sunset

GastronomySantorini

Alali, the caldera table on the quiet side of Santorini

8 October 2026

Wooden pergola over a stone-paved terrace of set tables and wicker chairs, young trees and flower boxes between them, the water and low hills beyond in low evening sun.

GastronomyPylos

The chef who stayed in Messenia, and the winery on the Gialova quay

8 October 2026

Arched dining terrace lit by hanging lanterns at dusk, tables laid with white linen in the foreground, and a floodlit swimming pool and palms beyond the arches.

GastronomyPylos

The fish room The Romanos has kept at Navarino Dunes since 2015

8 October 2026

The dining room at Atria, round marble tables and cane-backed chairs under a white canopy, open along one side to a terrace, an olive tree and the Aegean beyond

GastronomyKea

At One&Only Kéa Island, Atria cooks the island it stands on

8 October 2026

The restaurant's walled courtyard seen from above after dark, tables laid across stone paving, a tiled bar along the left wall and ivy covering the walls under floodlights

GastronomySyros

Avant Garden, the courtyard table opposite the Apollo Theatre

The restaurant stands in a restored neoclassical mansion of 1830 facing the Apollo Theatre, and dinner is served in its stone courtyard. Konstantinos Bourantas cooks and owns it.

8 October 2026

A long table laid with white plates, napkins and upturned wine glasses stands behind a glass balustrade, the sun setting on the sea horizon beyond it

GastronomyMykonos

Baos, the hillside table above Little Venice

The dining room of Myconian Korali sits on a hillside falling towards the windmills of Little Venice. Panagiotis Tsoukatos has run its kitchen since it opened in 2016, and the menu is built on seafood.

8 October 2026