quick Greece notes:
Santorini food was not so good, overpriced and lack luster (amazing town we stayed it, one of the most beautiful rooms we have ever rented), even the fish tavernas on the water were just ok compaired to the north, one place was cool to me called Koukoumalvos where we ate langostines in white chocolate sauce (lime, fennel seed, ginger) and lamb w/ coffee sauce w/minted yougurt but the grape leave pasta was not helped by the wacky combo of smoked salmon and mint and zucchini TO ME......
Athens/Thessaloniki you could not find a bad meal if you avoided the tourist spots, we ate so much awesome taverna food, and had one 4* yummy nite that was a meal of 2003 for sure (sea urchin risotto to die for, grapeleaves stuffed with langostines, squid pesto "pasta" on tiny fried potatos, a soup with mushroom/truffle balls, mullet over eggplant, grouper in a tomatoe/carrot broth that made me lick the bowl, great wine guy and the bill scary cheap compaired to NYC prices (and all we got special price treatment was on the wine but just slightly) @ Varoulko, 14 Deligiorgi St, Pireas....and a few 2* meals also.....
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Santorini food was not so good, overpriced and lack luster (amazing town we stayed it, one of the most beautiful rooms we have ever rented), even the fish tavernas on the water were just ok compaired to the north, one place was cool to me called Koukoumalvos where we ate langostines in white chocolate sauce (lime, fennel seed, ginger) and lamb w/ coffee sauce w/minted yougurt but the grape leave pasta was not helped by the wacky combo of smoked salmon and mint and zucchini TO ME......
Athens/Thessaloniki you could not find a bad meal if you avoided the tourist spots, we ate so much awesome taverna food, and had one 4* yummy nite that was a meal of 2003 for sure (sea urchin risotto to die for, grapeleaves stuffed with langostines, squid pesto "pasta" on tiny fried potatos, a soup with mushroom/truffle balls, mullet over eggplant, grouper in a tomatoe/carrot broth that made me lick the bowl, great wine guy and the bill scary cheap compaired to NYC prices (and all we got special price treatment was on the wine but just slightly) @ Varoulko, 14 Deligiorgi St, Pireas....and a few 2* meals also.....
- Skinny 5-27-2003 5:08 am