Athens Food Tour
Walking around the central market, tasting the Greek cuisine specialties and learning its secrets; that is what the Athens Food Tour is about
A walk among the numerous kiosks of the central meat, fish and vegetable markets in the centre of Athens can be very amusing. Even more if you taste a variety of Greek delicacies! Your guide will tell you interesting details about the Mediterranean ingredients and their use, especially in Greece.
You will and have the opportunity to taste various traditional Greek products like the olives and olive oil, pure "stragisto" yogurt, regional cheeses, cold cuts, herbs and spices from the Greek countryside. You will also taste traditional Greek recipes like "gemista", “soutzoukakia” and "mousaka" at an original Greek tavern.
Maybe you will have a local beer, some house wine or even a little “tsipouro” to accompany your meal like the Greeks usually do.
A nice meal will always be followed by a sweet from the wide variety of choices that traditional Greek kitchen provides. It may be a baklava or a loukoumi. It may be some halva or pure honey from the Greek mountains. Whatever it may be it will surely be delicious! And how about ending the whole culinary experience with a Greek coffee?
Greece is a very old agricultural society. It is of no surprise that meat has not been a very important ingredient in traditional recipes. So, with very little modifications the “Food Tour” can be purely vegetarian or even vegan.
KOSHER
Depending on the degree of Kosher that you prefer, the Food Tour can be from “certified kosher” to just “Kosher style”. Here are all the options in an ascending order (low to high):
- Kosher style. The tour does not include any combination of dairy and meat on the same table, any boneless fish or pork. However the meat or other products used are not certified kosher.
- Fish and Vegetables. In the traditional tavern we taste fish and vegetables cooked in a traditional way. The kitchen will be casual, without keeping special Kosher rules
- Purely Vegetarian. All of the tour is purely vegetarian. This is also a way of being Kosher. The kitchen will be casual, without keeping special Kosher rules
- Certified Kosher. Instead of a traditional tavern, we go to the Kosher restaurant of Chabad and taste versions of traditional recipes, slightly modified if needed, but with all the taste of the original. Of course in that case everything is fully kosher and certified; the ingredients and the kitchen.
Other food preferences that we can accommodate include:
- Vegan. There is the possibility of a Vegan Food Tour
- Allergies or other. For any allergies or dislikes we can surely modify the tour to mach to your liking.
WINE TASTING
For those of you especially interested in wine and its fascinating world, we can taste a variety of Greek wine and get to know contemporary Greek wine production, which has become very serious in the last 30 years. “Strong”, local varieties as well as the standard international ones, in combination with producers that take the matter very seriously, have resulted to “great” award winning wines. In this variation of the Athens Food Tour, instead of sweets and coffee, we will try a variety of Greek wines at a specialized wine bar.
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