113 Best Restaurants in Greece

This sunny beach bar and deck is a great place to swim and soak up some rays after visiting the aquarium. Use of the sun loungers is free when you spend €10 each on the café's range of coffees, cold drinks, ice creams, and snacks. Use of showers and changing rooms is also free.

The balcony overlooking the caldera on top of this café-cum-bakery-cum-pizzeria is a prime spot for lazing over breakfast, a coffee, or a home-baked pastry. Open all year, too, for soothing summer ice cream or warming winter waffles.

There was room in Vouliagmeni for a more hipster-friendly café. This avo-toast, açaí bowl, smoothies, grains, and sandwiches joint certainly fits the bill and has quickly developed a zealous following among Vouliagmeni's younger set. A welcome change of pace. 

Very cool and chic, the industrial-style decor wouldn't be out of place in New York, never mind sleepy little Samos. A cosmopolitan, international menu serves up brunch-style dishes, alongside freshly roasted Brazilian coffee. At night, the lights dim and creative cocktails are served as the trendy crowd watch the sunset on the small upper deck.

On the backstreets of Naousa, this is the place for healthy breakfasts and brunch. A white-tiled interior is decorated with goofy art and handwritten blackboards extolling the superfoods used in their dishes. Think home-baked granolas, avocado on toast, fruit smoothies, and quinoa salad. Replenish your vitamins and minerals, then return in the evening for delicious cocktails until the early hours.

The owners of this spot are as unapologetic about the bad pun in their name as they are about the supertasty souvlaki they dish out. Order traditional gyro or souvlaki wrapped in a lightly grilled pita bread, to eat in or take out. They even cater to vegetarians, with haloumi, fresh summer veggies, or mushrooms wrapped in pita bread.

With views across the waterfront, the Sugar House's display cases heave with all manner of biscuits, cakes, and baked goods. From morning until night, locals and travelers alike come in search of the ultimate sweet treat. A coffee and a cake, or a bowl of ice cream, makes for an indulgent break in the day at this cute little patisserie. 

All the food in this no nonsense little eatery is served on grease-proof paper, including the Greek salad, or else wrapped in it to take out. You'll find all types of flame grilled meats from kontosouvli pork loin, pork, chicken or beef souvlaki to kokoretsi lamb offal sausage. As you'd expect every thing is locally sourced and fired up to a crispy yet succulent perfection.

This place is serious about its coffee. It was the first new era, award-winning coffee brand from Greece, which not only selected excellent coffee bean varieties from around the world for its roastery, but also trains baristas in all that is coffee. Modern and ergonomic, it's one of the best spots in Athens for a cup, whether begotten by a variety of skilled hand drip and cold brewing methods or pulled from top-of-the-line machines.

It doesn't take an oracle to divine the reasoning behind the name of this café; two large telescopes decorate the terrace looming over the valley below. The menu is littered with tidbits to tempt visitors, including the usual array of Greek cakes and juices, but the views are the real lure here.

Fast food all over Greece usually consists of souvlaki or gyro wrapped in a pita and that is available at Tenekdakia, but this spot also has the added draw of being in a superb harbor-front location. The pork gyro is crispy yet juicy and the pita is also stuffed full with fries, onion, tomato, and cooling tzatziki. By the way, if you're missing spicy heat (rarely found in Greek food) make sure to ask for a generous sprinkling of tongue tingling hot red pepper.

Set in a 1930s building with a lovely courtyard seating area and hip, designy interiors, this is one of the area's new hot spots from breakfast time (with an ample menu to boot) to cocktail hour (with bar food selections). Creative sandwiches, with succulent fillings inspired mainly by Latin American cuisine, and salads are served throughout the day. If you feel like a wander, visit the ground floor studio of one of the owners, where he presents his handmade furniture. The upstairs floor hosts yoga classes, art exhibitions, and other artsy events.

This old kaffeneio is the perfect place to sit and watch the yachts while the clack of the tavli (backgammon) boards rattle around you. Come the evening—like all the cafés along the dockside—it switches from coffees to cocktails, but the easy atmosphere remains the same, and in winter the fireplace makes a welcome spot to gather around.

For eating on the hoof, nothing beats a satiating pitta gyro or souvlaki. As you travel northwards in Greece, pitta bread becomes interchangeable with a soft and lightly toasted baguette. To Souvlaki tis Alexandras speedily serves these up, packed full with meat, fries, tomato and tzatziki (the creamy yogurt and garlic dip). They can also deliver to your hotel.

Occupying the same spot in the New Market since 1946, this traditional café has been trendily face-lifted but stays true to its roots with a menu of salty snacks, sticky sweets, and more substantial seafood dishes. Plenty of dishes here are homemade, laced with specialist local ingredients. It has an excellent value-to-quality ratio and is a hit while in this part of town.

A tree shades the terrace and blue, multipaned storefront of the Tsinari Ouzeri, the last remaining Turkish-style coffeehouse (opened in 1850) and the only one to have survived the fire of 1917. During the 1920s it became the social hub for the refugees from Asia Minor who lived here. Now a café and ouzeri (a bar where appetizers are sold), it is especially popular before siesta time (12–2 pm) and gets busy again after 9 pm. Have an ouzo and share delicious appetizers such as melitzanonsalata (pureed eggplant salad), octopus, or charcoal-grilled sardines.

On the harborfront, two spoons is what you will need to share the delicious sweet creations from this cozy little coffee shop. Shaded waterside tables are just the place to enjoy decadent desserts all handmade on the premises. Fruit salads and healthy bowls are offered at breakfast but islanders flock here for the indulgent cheesecake, mille-feuille, and ice-cream creations.

Chatty owner-manager Lefteris is reason enough to stop by this cute café, but it tempts also with its great coffee, tasty pastries, and ingredient-packed sandwiches---all freshly made every day. The brunch is a popular order.

A favorite of tourists and locals alike, Vyzantino is directly on Plaka's main square—good for a reasonably priced, well prepared, and traditional bite (like stewed meats such as beef stifado, baked lamb, and stuffed tomatoes) with a front seat to all the action.

The name is something of a giveaway. This local chain is beloved by families and grown-ups with a sweet tooth or a love of sorbet-based cocktails. Spare a thought for its "waffins," a kind of donut-waffle hybrid that is either a crime against humanity or the best thing ever. We're not sure. It also does alcoholic drinks.

Offering a variety of rich homemade ice creams, fresh waffles, and minisize "waffins," Waffle House has expanded since it opened in Naxos Town to the country's capital in Athens. Nevertheless, the Naxos original is a local favorite, and tables get packed here.

A new-generation coffee shop that's as much about nostalgically celebrating the '70s-style granola hippie philosophy as ultramodern health consciousness and love of nature. Wild Souls has organic coffee, a sunlight-flooded space to sit at with your dog and friends, and an interesting array of plant-based bowls like chia pudding and overnight oats, with an emphasis on six types of homemade nut butters like almond and pistachio, that can also be bought by the jar. Eggs, sandwiches, and salads are also on the menu, packed with seasonal freshness and ethical vision.

This breezy café-patisserie on the ground floor of the Hotel Zefiros is a cool place to hang out after a day on the beach or a boat trip around Paleokastritsa's spectacular shores. Light bites include various gyros, salads, and souvlaki, plus a range of sweets. For the truly greedy, the giant burger features a stack of four patties topped with cheddar, lettuce, onions, egg, pickles, barbecue sauce, and mayo.