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Athens Eating, drinking and dancing
Restaurants
+30 210 333 0000
GB Roof Garden
In a city where you can dine alfresco from April until November, you couldn’t ask for a better Athenian backdrop than the one you get at this stylish eatery, above the classic Hotel Grande Bretagne.
Constitution Square, Plaka, Athens
(+30 210 623 0810)
Klik
Klik is the most stylish drinking and dining option for anyone spending time in the upmarket suburb of Kifissia, north of Athens. While its bright-red sign is more Wendy’s than Met Bar, its interior, from the chandeliers to the muslin-draped walls, is an Ian Schrager-like confection.
2 Filadelfeos Street, Kefalariou, Athens
+30 210 346 4984
Mamacas
With a menu that presents a modern spin on taverna favourites, Mamacas (not, alas, named after the ham sandwich-stuffing Sixties icon) allows you to dine in airy, all-white surrounds.
41 Persefonis Street, Gazi, Athens
+30 210 361 9682
Mommy’s
Serving fusion cuisine amid funky vintage decor, Mommy’s pulls in young actors, stylists and a fashion crowd to its lounge bar and terrace. It also hosts regular exhibitions by modern artists
4 Delfon Street, Pefkakia, Athens
Bars
(+30 210 641 2300)
Balthazar
One of Athens’ hippest hangouts, Balthazar comes with a lantern-lit, palm-fringed courtyard that draws in the city’s beau monde for cocktails and Modern European dishes.
27 Tsocha Street, Ambelokipi, Athens
+30 210 342 5335
Bios
An idiosyncratic space that combines music venue and bar with gallery space and second-hand furniture shop, Bios injects some seriously cutting-edge culture into the Athens scene.
84 Pireos Street, Gazi, Athens
+30 210 924 3184
De Luxe
An intimate, split-level bar – there’s a restaurant upstairs – this Makrigiani favourite fills with a trendy crowd at weekends, who flock here for the cocktails and cool beats.
15 Falirou Street, Makrigiani, Athens
(+30 210 324 6530)
Guru Bar
Tiny, velvet sofa-filled loft bar in which arty types sip spirits while nodding their heads either to live music or the tunes that the resident DJ is spinning.
10 Theatrou Square, Thisson, Athens
Cafés
(+30 210 721 2253)
Cake
Part of a popular Athenian chain – of three – Cake serves up delicious home-made gateaux and cappuccini. This branch is great for people-watching.
13 Irodotou Street, Kolonaki, Athens
+30 210 677 3183
Deals
A stylish, split-level café-bar in Neo Psychiko, Deals offers plenty of leafy outside space that throngs with Greece’s media fraternity. Fun for brunches and coffee.
10 Demitriou Vassileiou Street, Neo Psychiko, Athens
