Gastronomy

Fine dining, wine, and culinary heritage

A colonnaded restaurant terrace with tables laid, the low sun over the sea and an infinity pool beyond

GastronomySantorini

Three Houses, One Kitchen: Vaios Koukoumtzis Takes Charge in Oia

Named executive chef of the Santo Collection houses for the 2026 season, after 20 years inside the Metaxa Hospitality Group

Dining tables laid under a pergola on a stone terrace, above a curved swimming pool with the open sea and a low island beyond

GastronomyParos

Rome by Way of Ambelas: Luca Piscazzi Takes a Parian Kitchen

A circular marble bar ringed with red-upholstered stools, set beneath a shallow dome under a wrought-iron chandelier, on a floor laid in pale triangular mosaic

GastronomyAthens

Byzantino Returns: An Athenian Room Reopens as a Grande Brasserie

A dining terrace at dusk above the sea, white-clothed tables and low sofas beside an infinity pool, a lit stone-pillared bar to one side and the lights of a hillside town across the water

GastronomyMykonos

Fire, and Little Else: YĒVO Returns to Megali Ammos

The lit dining room of a neoclassical pavilion, tables laid in white beneath warm alabaster lanterns, tall windows giving onto dark garden trees

GastronomyAthens

The Aigli Takes a New Name: Zappa Opens in the Zappeion Garden

The glazed orangerie dining room at night, its blue-black steel frame hung with white globe lamps, white-clothed tables set before floor-to-ceiling glass with the lit garden beyond

GastronomyAthens

The Orangerie Lit Again: Artisanal Reopens in Kifissia

A lit restaurant level above a floodlit swimming pool at dusk, glazed and open to a terrace, with palms and planting on either side

GastronomyAthens

The First Table at THE ILISIAN: Onuki Opens in Athens

A lit shopfront under a white fascia reading Smoku, with bar stools and small tables set out on the pavement beside potted palms

GastronomyAthens

The Room Behind the Bar: Dimitris Katrivesis Returns to Athens

Aerial view of a vineyard of low, widely spaced vines on volcanic ground, with pickers at work and a whitewashed village along the ridge beyond

GastronomySantorini

The Assyrtiko Benchmark Changes Hands: Kir-Yianni Takes Domaine Sigalas

A vaulted stone cellar with an arch of timber racks holding wine bottles across the curved wall, warm bulbs glowing at its centre above a bare stone floor

GastronomySantorini

The Room Beneath the Floor: Rizes Opens the Cellar It Found in Fira

A wide view over high open country, a bare hill flank falling to a patchwork of gold and green fields, a road curving through it and ridged mountains beyond under a pale sky

GastronomyThessaloniki

Assyrtiko Leaves the Island: Artemis Karamolegos Plants at 700 Metres

An aerial view of a long, red-roofed winery standing on a ridge, with vineyards planted in rows on the slopes all around it and a hazy mountain valley falling away behind

GastronomyNafplio

The Nemean Cellar Changes Hands: Semeli Passes to Hellenic Wineries