Best Places for Friends in Thessaloniki

Handwritten daily menu dictated by the morning catch

The bar that rewrote Thessaloniki's cocktail rulebook

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

High-energy lab cocktails in industrial Ano Ladadika

Papoutsakis's playful small plates a step from the sea

The Ottoman-era corner ouzeri that survived the city itself

Thessaloniki's first seafood charcuterie counter

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

Greek natural wine in a train-carriage of a room

Own-roast specialty coffee and handpicked vinyl

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

Inventive modern Greek hidden in a downtown arcade

Pick your fish at the counter, eat it minutes later

The Glykanisos team's city-centre fish room

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

An antique-feeling ouzeri tucked inside the market arcade

An eclectic Fragkon kitchen that drew the New York Times

A vine-shaded 1914 taverna emblematic of the upper town

Zannakis's much-talked-about gastro-taverna

The 1952 patsas institution that defends tripe as heritage