Food Tours

I’ll tell you something most travel blogs won’t: you can eat badly in Athens. Stick to the tourist-trap tavernas around Monastiraki Square — the ones with the aggressive hosts waving menus at you — and you’ll have a mediocre, overpriced meal and walk away thinking Greek food is “fine.” That’s a tragedy, because real Athenian food is spectacular. The trick is knowing where to look. And that’s exactly what a good food tour does — it takes you to the places locals actually eat, not the spots that survive on tourist foot traffic alone.