Venues similar to Tsarouchas

Since 1977, the city's benchmark soutzoukakia and hand-cut gyro

The Ottoman-era corner ouzeri that survived the city itself

A vine-shaded 1914 taverna emblematic of the upper town

The never-ending meze that reset how the city shares plates

Toumba's no-frills bench for offal, lamb and a serious wine list

An antique-feeling ouzeri tucked inside the market arcade

Pick your fish at the counter, eat it minutes later

Grandma's kitchen meets deli on the slope below the old town

Constantinopolitan home cooking carried west by the refugees

Handwritten daily menu dictated by the morning catch

Zannakis's much-talked-about gastro-taverna

Thessaloniki's first seafood charcuterie counter

The patisserie whose tsoureki perfumes Aristotelous Square

Chania-born chef rewrites Cretan cooking on a cobbled lane

Aretsou's seafront seafood house, fish hand-picked at dawn

Daily-changing zero-waste plates and zero-sulphur wine

Papoutsakis's playful small plates a step from the sea

Inventive modern Greek hidden in a downtown arcade

An eclectic Fragkon kitchen that drew the New York Times

The Glykanisos team's city-centre fish room