Food of Athens

One thing we like to do in a new city/country is to take a food tour. We learn a lot about the food but also a lot about the culture and history. And after the tours we find ourselves being more adventurous when we eat out on our own.
Our food tour in Athens was a lot of fun, educational, delicious and filling. And even though we’ve been in Greece for a couple of weeks we still were introduced to several new foods/dishes. The first couple of stops were light bites but then when we stopped for lunch we had 12 different courses to try. All delicious, but our favorite items were pickled fish, calamari, a pasta with sun dried tomatoes and a pork dish that I don’t remember the name of! We were so stuffed and then our guide surprised us with two more stops. One for a gyro sandwich and one for a special donut. We found room for the donut but gave our gyros to a family we saw in a park by our hotel (appeared to be homeless/begging).
Needless to say Athens has some amazing food. Luckily the culture expects you to share plates (which we like to do) and we walked so much that we hope we reduced the expansion of our waistlines.もっと詳しく