Athens, Greece

Ergon Bakehouse Athens

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Style

Dough not disturb

Setting

The toast of downtown

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If “give us this day our daily bread” is your kind of piety, prepare to have your prayers answered by Ergon Bakehouse Athens, a boutique hotel and artisanal bakery in the heart of downtown. The ground floor is a temple to all things sourdough, with shelves piled with artisanal loaves and pastries, and an all-day café serving bread-based comfort food. There's a rooftop terrace in the works, where you'll find a restaurant and bar devoted to fine Greek produce. And sandwiched between the two, there are 29 cool, contemporary rooms, with a suitably oat- and wheat-based palette and the ever-present waft of baking pastries – amen.

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

29.

Check–Out

11am. Check-in is at 3pm, but both are flexible, subject to availability.

More details

Rates at Ergon Bakehouse Athens include an à la carte breakfast of freshly baked, sourdough-based delights.

Also

Ergon Bakehouse Athens is entirely wheelchair accessible, with a lift to all floors. One Small room has been specially designed for guests with limited mobility.

At the hotel

Artisanal bakery, rooftop terrace, paid laundry service and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: TV, Marshall Bluetooth speaker, air-conditioning, curated book collection, minibar of Ergon goodies, Nespresso coffee machine with custom capsules, tea-making kit, free bottled water and bespoke Physis Laboratory bath products.

Our favourite rooms

It’s hard to go wrong when every room comes with curated Ergon snacks and the waft of baking bread as standard, but our pick is the XX Large for sunny people-watching out on the private balcony.

Packing tips

A hearty appetite, and a hardcore walking tour hitlist so you’re good to go again come suppertime.

Also

If you fancy upping your own pastry game, peek in at the pros at work through the window of the bakery lab.

Children

Little Smiths of all ages are welcome. Cots can be added for free to Large, X Large and XX Large rooms.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

At 72H, snag a spot by the open bakery kitchen to have eyes on the second a fresh batch emerges from the oven.

Dress Code

Floaty and forgiving of a carb-based feast.

Hotel restaurant

At 72H Eatery, the hotel’s street-level all-day spot, settle in for a leisurely morning, warmed by the oven’s glow, the waft of baking pastries and the smugness that comes from watching a queue form outside from the comfort of your window seat. With hand-chosen flour and a painstaking 72-hour fermentation process (hence the name), sourdough is elevated from workaday brunch stalwart to work of art. Breakfast might be sourdough toast spread thick with salted butter and jam or dipped in sunny-side-up eggs, vanilla-seeded French toast or a pastry you’ve just peeped emerging from the oven. By lunchtime, focaccias are stuffed with pesto and thick-cut ham, and biga pizzas are being pulled from the wood-fired oven, perfectly puffed and topped with temptations such as burrata, porchetta and fragrant za’atar.

Year-round +2H Restaurant is where the sourdough obsession will meet Ergon’s signature epicurean flair. Look forward to lingering on the roof terrace over nourishing bowls of udon noodles, pasta and prime cuts coated with a sourdough crumb, all spotlighting meticulously sourced Greek ingredients.

 

Hotel bar

At +2H Bar, sip tangy aperitifs or fine Greek wines as the sun dips over downtown Athens and the Acropolis beyond. The craft cocktail list works in step with the hotel’s sourdough mastery, focusing on inventive fermented flavours.

Last orders

72H Eatery is open from 7am to 11pm daily; breakfast is from 7am till 10.30am. +2H Restaurant and Bar both serve from 5pm to midnight (last orders 11.40pm).

Room service

Sometimes, self-care looks like tucking into fresh-baked goods in bed. Order up to your room from 7am till midnight.

Location

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Address
Ergon Bakehouse Athens
Mitropoleos 27 & Patroou 09-11
Athens
10557
Greece

Ergon Bakehouse Athens' prime downtown address puts it at the heart of the historic action, on an avenue between Monastiraki and Syntagma and with views of the Acropolis from the rooftop terrace.

Planes

Athens International Airport is a 40-minute drive away. The hotel can arrange transfers for €47 each way, or you can hop on Metro Line 3 straight to Syntagma – from there, it’s less than 10 minutes’ walk.

Trains

Larissa Station, Athens’ main railway hub, is a 20-minute drive away. The hotel can arrange transfers for €25 each way.

Automobiles

When you’re this close to all the city’s cultural highlights, there’s little need to take on the Athens traffic. Monastiraki, Syntagma Square, Plaka and the Acropolis are all within walking distance, and there are good Metro links to other areas. If you do bring a car, there’s 24-hour parking available near the hotel for €25 a day.

Worth getting out of bed for

You’re well placed to take in Athens’ headline ancient sites – the golden triangle of Monastiraki, Syntagma and the Acropolis are all within walking distance. Pretty, village-like neighbourhood Plaka is a tangle of cobblestone lanes lined with traditional tavernas and shops selling hand-crafted ceramics. And for a post-prandial stroll, you could do a lot worse than the cypress-shaded calm of Athens National Garden.

Local restaurants

You needn’t stray far for a finely spun Mediterranean feast. Just down the road at sister hotel Ergon House, the Agora is a full market and deli of take-home Greek delicacies. If you’d rather leave it to the pros, the restaurant serves antipasti, rich seafood orzo and salads packed with organic local produce.

Look past the unassuming exterior at Tanpopo and you’ll be treated to authentic ramen bowls, brimming with umami goodness and given an haute twist by a renowned local chef.

Local bars

You can choose your own adventure at the Clumsies, a hipster-drawing townhouse with a clubby living room, reading room and moody, apothecary-esque main bar, plus a team of amiable (and award-winning) mixologists to keep the craft cocktails coming.

Reviews

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Anonymous review

By Mr & Mrs Smith

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this decadent hotel in the Greek capital and unpacked their sourdough loaves and Peloponnese pine honey, a full account of their cockles-warming city break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Ergon Bakehouse Athens…

In Ancient Greece, followers of Demeter would make offerings of fresh-baked loaves to show the goddess their devotion. If you ask us, bread remains a hard-to-beat means of indulging your inner deity. Happily, Ergon Bakehouse Athens seems to agree. 

Every morning, while the rest of the city is still hitting snooze, the team of artisan bakers gets to work whipping up the day’s batch of croissants and cinnamon buns, buttery tsoureki brioche and flaky feta-swirled pies, honeyed babka and wholesome, crusty loaves. There are few things as alluring as the smell of baking bread first thing – crack open your French windows and you might find yourself floating downstairs nose-first like a cartoon critter. But the rooms here make an all-stops-pulled attempt to seduce you into staying put, with cool, ryokan-esque interiors in shades of cream and chocolate, baskets stuffed with locally sourced treats and room service running till midnight. The Parthenon is just around the corner, but propped up between high-thread-count sheets, pulling apart a pillowy cardamom bun that’s still warm from the oven, you don’t have to look far for the divine.

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