Venues similar to Mezen Salonica

An antique-feeling ouzeri tucked inside the market arcade

The 1952 patsas institution that defends tripe as heritage

The Ottoman-era corner ouzeri that survived the city itself

A vine-shaded 1914 taverna emblematic of the upper town

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

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

Constantinopolitan home cooking carried west by the refugees

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

Pick your fish at the counter, eat it minutes later

Handwritten daily menu dictated by the morning catch

Zannakis's much-talked-about gastro-taverna

Thessaloniki's first seafood charcuterie counter

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

The Glykanisos team's city-centre fish room

Chania-born chef rewrites Cretan cooking on a cobbled lane

Papoutsakis's playful small plates a step from the sea

Inventive modern Greek hidden in a downtown arcade

A tiny Fragomahalas room punching well above its size

An eclectic Fragkon kitchen that drew the New York Times

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