Gastronomy

Fine dining, wine, and culinary heritage

Restaurant terrace under a timber pergola, white marble tables and grey chairs set along a stone parapet above the tiled rooftops of the lower town, open sea filling the horizon

GastronomyMonemvasia

A named kitchen inside the walls of Monemvasia

The restaurant of Moni Emvasis keeps its own name and its own kitchen. George Tsimpidis cooks Laconian produce, meat and fish come off a Josper charcoal oven, and the list is led by Malvasia.

A long low concrete building on a sand beach seen from the shallow water, its glazed room fronts shaded by awnings, with two round rusted tanks rising behind the roofline under a clear sky

GastronomyOlympia

Dinner inside a 1920s wine tank on Kourouta Beach

A long white-roofed winery building standing among rows of trained vines on a hilltop, with a hazy valley and low ridges stretching behind it under a blue sky

GastronomyNafplio

Gaia Wines put its Nemea winery inside its own vineyard, at 550 metres

Stone houses with terracotta roofs stacked on a slope beneath a tall red and grey cliff face, lit low and warm, with cypress and olive trees between them.

GastronomyMonemvasia

The sweet wine Monemvasia lost, and the family that went looking for it

A circular timber canopy over a dining terrace of laid tables and olive trees, two diners at the rail, the sun setting behind the headland across Navarino Bay

GastronomyPylos

The Greek room at Costa Navarino, where the garden sets the menu

Painted blue tables and chairs on a stone terrace beside a glass wall, a shell-set balustrade beyond them, with the beach, a palm and the bay behind

At CHES on Ios, a nine-course menu drawn from the Cycladic islands

The dining room at Deka Trapezia, white marble tables and spindle-back wooden chairs set before a pale plaster wall with three arched niches of ceramics and a slatted rack of wooden letters.

GastronomyThessaloniki

Ten tables in Thessaloniki, and a menu called The Cook’s Prayer

Rows of vines on a sloping block at Ktima Gerovassiliou, with olive groves, ploughed fields and cypresses beyond, and the Thermaic Gulf along the horizon.

GastronomyThessaloniki

Ktima Gerovassiliou grew a hectare or two at a time

A round marble table laid with chopsticks, napkins and glasses in a seafront garden, with tamarisk trees, black rattan chairs and moored sailing boats beyond.

GastronomyParos

A garden by the sea on Paros, and Nobu Matsuhisa’s third Greek room

The double-height dining room seen from the mezzanine, with a brass sputnik chandelier over round tables and tall windows opening onto the Thermaikos Gulf.

GastronomyThessaloniki

Olympos Naoussa is open again on the Thessaloniki seafront

Wooden tables laid with glasses and plates on a stone-paved terrace, a rendered wall casting reed shadows at the left, and the open sea filling the frame beyond

GastronomyFolegandros

The one restaurant at Gundari, with its menu signed by Lefteris Lazarou

Rows of low bush vines running across a dry stony slope, with bare brown hills behind them and a thin strip of sea on the horizon.

GastronomyAndros

Three generations above Mesa Vouni, and vines that phylloxera never reached

The front courtyard under a pine tree, a long marble communal table and straw-seat stools on gravel, with the whitewashed houses and blue balconies of Antiparos town beyond.

GastronomyAntiparos

YAPA leaves Milan for one Antiparos summer

Matteo Pancetti’s kitchen left Italy for the first time in May 2026, took a museum building in Antiparos town for a single season, and cooked what the island and Paros could land and grow.

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

GastronomySantorini

Vaios Koukoumtzis became executive chef of Santo Collection in Oia

Santo Collection named Vaios Koukoumtzis executive chef of its three hotels in Oia 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

Pino by Luca Piscazzi: a Roman chef’s restaurant at Vione Paros

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 reopened in Athens 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

YĒVO at Bill&Coo Mykonos: a fine-dining room rebuilt around fire

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

GastronomyAthens

Zappa at the Aigli: a restaurant with its own name 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

Artisanal reopened in its Kifissia orangerie under Giannis Parikos

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

Onuki opened in Athens as the first restaurant at THE ILISIAN

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

GastronomyAthens

Smoku Athens: Dimitris Katrivesis and a tasting room behind the bar

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

Kir-Yianni took a majority stake in Domaine Sigalas on Santorini

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

Rizes Santorini: the wine cellar found beneath a building 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

Artemis Karamolegos took Assyrtiko from Santorini to 700 metres in Amyndeo