3 Best Restaurants in The Sporades, Greece

This family-run and long-established landmark entices with its playful and innovative takes on classic Greek dishes. While the awe-inspiring panoramic vista of the Aegean Sea would be enough to please customers, owner Nikos Stamatakis and his chef father, Stamatis, wow diners with the island's most exciting cuisine, expertly finessed with on-point presentation. The setting is cool, contemporary, and elegant: perfect for a special occasion. Reserve well ahead as it gets booked up quickly.

Enclosed within a leafy, serene courtyard, this restaurant serves some of the best food on the island—with the ambience to match. Traditional fare is on the menu, with carefully sourced specialties that sing of Greece's natural larder, like rabbit roasted in Samos's sweet wine. With knowledgeable waiting staff to boot, this is many a Skiathos regular's favorite restaurant. Reserve at least a week ahead in high season as it tends to be booked up.

Though it's not situated in Votsi, the restaurant is just a 10-minute drive away, and it's one of the island's most unmissable properties, not least for its delightful restaurant serving up exceptional modern Greek cuisine. Merging in total complement to its natural surroundings, the restaurant's unobtrusive tables, chairs, and canopies are spread out across an olive grove on Leftos Gialos beach, one of the island's most beautiful, with pine forest springing from untouched headlands. The menu features Greek and Alonnisos specialties, and are expertly-cooked by chef Michalis Jovas. There are three luxury villas available to book here, should you never want to leave.