Diagonios Restaurant
Institution Traditional Authentic
Diagonios
$$
Since 1977, the city's benchmark soutzoukakia and hand-cut gyro
Dense, enduring, unpretentious, Macedonian
Center (Platia Fanarioton)
The working heart of the centre, where the city's enduring tavernas and patsa houses feed it at every hour.
Around Platia Fanarioton and the streets feeding Aristotelous, this is the part of the centre where Thessaloniki actually eats lunch. The institutions here have outlasted fashions: a patsatzidiko that opens before dawn for tripe soup, a mezedopoleio where the same families have ordered the same plates for decades, a specialty roaster trading in vinyl alongside espresso. It is dense, unpretentious and busy at all hours, the food leaning firmly Macedonian and Anatolian rather than international. Come here when you want the city's working appetite, not its postcard.
Highlights
Pre-dawn patsa (tripe soup) at the old hangover institutions Mezedopoleia where regulars have ordered the same plates for decades Macedonian and Anatolian cooking over anything international Specialty coffee and vinyl a few doors from century-old kitchens Steps from Aristotelous and the seafront promenade
6 places
3 Categories
Restaurant
4 places
Mezen Salonica Restaurant
Lively Convivial Authentic
Mezen Salonica
$$
The never-ending meze that reset how the city shares plates
Tsarouchas Restaurant
Institution Historic Traditional
Tsarouchas
$$
The 1952 patsas institution that defends tripe as heritage
Bazagiazi Restaurant
Traditional Authentic Convivial
Bazagiazi
$$
An antique-feeling ouzeri tucked inside the market arcade
Bar
1 place
Cafe
1 place
