Beste restaurants in Thessaloniki

Chania-born chef rewrites Cretan cooking on a cobbled lane

Handwritten daily menu dictated by the morning catch

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

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

Papoutsakis's playful small plates a step from the sea

A 1927 waterfront legend reopened with a modern kitchen

Nose-to-tail seafood from a Halkidiki fishing family

The Ottoman-era corner ouzeri that survived the city itself

Chef Evangelou's regional Greece, with Thermaic views

Thessaloniki's first seafood charcuterie counter

Pylaia's creative fish table, catch sourced from Halkidiki

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

Decades-old bistronomy reborn in the Alpha building

A tiny Fragomahalas room punching well above its size

Polished oyster-bar dining a step off Aristotelous

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

Constantinopolitan home cooking carried west by the refugees

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

Infinity sea-view dining on the Karabournaki shore

A vine-shaded 1914 taverna emblematic of the upper town

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

Zannakis's much-talked-about gastro-taverna

The 1952 patsas institution that defends tripe as heritage