Alternative Athens

I love the Acropolis. Everyone should see it. But the Athens that made me fall in love with the city? That happened in a tiny bar behind a bookshelf door, on a rooftop nobody talks about, in a neighborhood with no TripAdvisor reviews, eating food at a place with no English menu. The real Athens — the one locals actually live in — is full of spots that don’t make it into guidebooks. Not because they’re secret, exactly, but because they require wandering off the main path, and most visitors don’t.