I've seen a few articles on the web that say you need to ask for local tomatoes when eating out in Santorini - is that true? Will restaurants serve you imported tomatoes unless you specifically ask for local?

I'm a vegetarian, so I am really looking forward to all the local agricultural products (especially the wines, white eggplant, fava beans and tomatoes). I'll be there in mid-May, is that too early for the cherry tomatoes?

Unfortunately mid-May is probably too early for most local produce to be ripe. Anything fresh you find is likely be from off-island.

Oh well. I'll just concentrate on the wines, then...

Can't go wrong with wine!!

I hear you!!!

A friend who lives there just wrote and told me that the Santorini tomatoes are ready the first week of June.

You won't be disappointed with the vegetables in Greece, even though you are a little early for the Santorini tomato. Even in May, the ordinary tomatoes I've eaten in Greece are much tastier than the supermarket variety back home.

bew10: I'm a vegetarian.

jamikins: Can't go wrong with wine.

Wine is sometimes made with animal products...

What products are those?

Animal products used as finings, e.g. gelatin, egg albumen, isinglass from fish bladders, casein from milk, rarely ox blood.

thx

Does that keep you from enjouying wine..Poor grr if it does!!!