Greek Cuisine

There is a Greek restaurant in Bologna, De Logo, which we absolutely love and  eat at quite often. So because we had already had a taste of good greek food, we were looking forward to enjoying greek food in Greece. 

Luca was hoping to eat some delicious fresh seafood, however all the seafood restaurants were too expensive and the one time we did splurge a bit and got grilled shrimp, and seafood pasta it was extremely disappointing. Actually, it was the worst food we ate the whole trip. 

The first day we were in Paros, it was our anniversary. We found a smaller, quaint restaurant Yemeni Taverna. The menu is based on local products and full of traditional recipes. We got a beet root truffle risotto and pork tenderloin dish. It was absolutely delicious and reasonably priced. 

We decided to go back to eat here again since we knew it was good quality food worth the price.  Our second dining experience at Yemeni, we went with the more traditional dishes. 

Dolmades- vine leaves filled with rice

Octopus - sweet greek wine and honey sauce 

Mousaka - eggplant, potato lasagna 

    

                            We ate a ton of greek yogurt, and tzatziki and also got in a couple of gyros. 

But our favorite meal was probably at a restaurant in Oia, Santorini. We had gone to watch the sunrise and after we went looking for a restaurant that wasn't too expensive. We choose the first place that offered different dishes with a normal price. Unfortunately I don't even know the name of the restaurant. 

There was only space on the  rooftop terrace, which at first seemed great, but it quickly got cold because of the wind. In July in Santorini the days are extremely hot, but the evenings are windy and cold. So we gobbled up some tzatziki, fried haloumi cheese with honey and black sesame seeds, and pork and ran down the stairs to pay and escape the wind.

 We didn't stay in hotels that offered breakfast, so we had to be creative since from what we saw Greece doesn't have a typical breakfast. Places offered eggs and bacon and pancakes but we didn't want to spend 20€ for breakfast. So we usually grabbed a prepackaged croissant from a small grocers but then got coffee from a cafe so we could use the internet. 

All over the place people were walking around the take away iced coffees. They looked yummy and refreshing so at first when I saw a frappé on a menu I thought that was the popular drink. But after trying a frappe, iced espresso, and cold cappuccino I think everyone was ordering the freddo cappucinos. However, every morning we were disappointed with our caffeine fix. Greek coffee and espresso is nothing compared to what Italy has to offer. Boy are we spoiled! 

I'm pretty sure that in the near future we'll back for more Greek food from our favorite place in Bologna!