Traditional Greek Food Tasting and Culinary Walking Tour in Athens
Athens, Greece
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Trip Type: Food Tours
Duration: 4 hours
Take a 3.5-hour small group tour gives you the opportunity to discover a different Athens off the beaten path.Take a culinary journey of Athens and go to to 10 carefully selected specialty food shops, where you’ll taste some of the finest olive oil, cheese, cured meat, sweets, spices, honey and other local delicacies available in the city, as well as trying the celebrated Greek souvlaki. Get a good feeling of what it means to be an Athenian.
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Take a 3.5-hour small group tour gives you the opportunity to discover a different Athens off the beaten path.Take a culinary journey of Athens and go to to 10 carefully selected specialty food shops, where you’ll taste some of the finest olive oil, cheese, cured meat, sweets, spices, honey and other local delicacies available in the city, as well as trying the celebrated Greek souvlaki. Get a good feeling of what it means to be an Athenian.Meet your guide at 10 am in the center of Athens and start your walk at a leisurely pace.
During your tour you will join the Athenians in their everyday life – where food IS king – and you will experience a tasty slice of true modern Greek culture and delicious eating habits.
Your culinary journey will take you to carefully selected specialty food stores, where we will taste some of the finest olive oil, cheese and honey available and local delicacies such as ‘pastourma’ cured meat.
Stroll through traditional, authentic neighborhoods in the heart of Athens and visit some wonderful pastry shops serving favorite Greek sweets. We will be immersed in the colors and smells of local spices, the secret behind many of the most renowned dishes of Greek cuisine, and aromatic Greek coffee (which you may have heard of as ‘Turkish’).
Irresistible smells of freshly baked delicacies will lead our steps into one of the oldest traditional bakeries of the city. Our journey will continue through the bustling alleys of Varvakios, the picturesque fish, meat and vegetable market -the true "belly of Athens". And, last but not least, we will make a stop at a local joint for an authentic taste of the celebrated Greek souvlaki.
During your tour you will join the Athenians in their everyday life – where food IS king – and you will experience a tasty slice of true modern Greek culture and delicious eating habits.
Your culinary journey will take you to carefully selected specialty food stores, where we will taste some of the finest olive oil, cheese and honey available and local delicacies such as ‘pastourma’ cured meat.
Stroll through traditional, authentic neighborhoods in the heart of Athens and visit some wonderful pastry shops serving favorite Greek sweets. We will be immersed in the colors and smells of local spices, the secret behind many of the most renowned dishes of Greek cuisine, and aromatic Greek coffee (which you may have heard of as ‘Turkish’).
Irresistible smells of freshly baked delicacies will lead our steps into one of the oldest traditional bakeries of the city. Our journey will continue through the bustling alleys of Varvakios, the picturesque fish, meat and vegetable market -the true "belly of Athens". And, last but not least, we will make a stop at a local joint for an authentic taste of the celebrated Greek souvlaki.
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