Thassos cuisine is an endless and incredibly pleasant topic for conversations, inevitably pop up during the winter evenings. Only the memory of the immense plates with simple, but such delicious dishes cause a blissful smile.
Features of local cuisine
Remember that AI on Thassos is the biggest stupidity, which you can come up. So we counted and we, and therefore did not deprive themselves pleasure to dinner every day in a new place. Even invented new entertainment - to compare the Greek salads - everywhere they are prepared by their own prescription and the composition of the ingredients may differ. Bring "basins", this is normal.
You can dine here in any village. Even high in the mountains, far from the sea, there will be some kind of tavern.
As already said, dishes are entered by huge. Before duplicate the order, say, for two, it is better to wait at least lettuce. Perhaps two servings will not be needed. At least for people of the average set. The main dish (meat, fish, etc.) is always served with a garnish, usually with fries, lemon and vegetables.
In addition, the dessert is still dragging like a bonus from the establishment - fruits or cakes. Everything is tasty, but it will be boosted with difficulty.
In Thassos, more attention is paid to traditional dishes: many Musaka, pork, chicken or lamb, fried feta, meat and a fish on the grill and a spiner.
Be sure to order Tzatziki sauce from yogurt, cucumbers, garlic, greenery and spices. Bread always bring, even if you forget about it. Bread does not regret: bring huge caravas, the size of two thirds of a large baton. Bread is chic here - fresh, fragrant, real. You can eat it just as a separate dish.
And oil. Many olive oil - it is gorgeous on Thassos. What is sold in our supermarkets can be safely thrown into the garbage. Oil is added everywhere, very generously. Like olives. They are special - dried here, such anywhere else do anywhere. The taste and consistency differ radically from the usual canned olives in the banks. At first they seem to be too tart and bitter, and then they are imperceptibly sitting on, and no longer want to watch.
Wine, of course, wonderful. You can safely choose any. Only recycling seemed to me "on an amateur". In general, all products here have long forgotten natural saturated taste. After all, we have already forgotten what is a normal food, without dyes, flavors, flavors amplifiers of taste and other rubbish.
Taverns on Thassose
So where to call?
If you stop in Potosa or near, try to get to the Klimataria tavern - is located on the way out of the Poksos if you go to the east.
They came across her by chance, late in the evening, when he hardly wanted to eat, but all the cereal places of Limemery and Poksos for some reason slipped. As a result, we went here all the remaining "Rolling" days. The tavern is kept Ukrainian Inna with her husband Odyssey. Inna also prepares. All that neither was ordered - extremely tasty - and meat, and fish. Guests here are fed from the soul. Worried: Is everything delicious? Another atmosphere itself attracts: the cheerful mistress simply charges a good mood, having time to find a minute to chat with visitors. The average account here all the time was within € 20, with a half-liter mug of wine. If you ordered fish, then the amount went out € 23-25. With all this, it was hardly floating from the table, without exaggeration.
The second place, which we liked - Platanos Tavern in Panagia.
The trick of the institution is a huge plan, which grows right in the middle of the terrace. Also very sincere place. Feed tasty, traditional dishes, including a goat, cooked on the grill - just knead. The staff also left a pleasant impression - benevolent, completely unmarried. Lunch of impressive sizes from lettuce, sauce, Musaki, wine and beer cost again somewhere in € 20 (I remind you, ordered everything for one serving, but even for two it turned out a lot).
The third mandatory point is the village of theologos. It is famous for the fact that they are treated here by a goat on a spit. And it really needs to try. I have not yet found such gentle meat, to taste it reminds the boiled language. Here usually go to the Augustos tavern (delicious and very expensive) or in Stelios and Koatas Iatroy - no less tasty, but much cheaper. In the last and stopped. By the way, the goat, as it turned out, is more expensive. Account for lunch from salad, branded cutting with grill and mandatory tzatziki with beer rushed to € 30. Portions are impressive in good sense. The bonus was a bottle of mineral water, dessert and a chic look from the terrace.
I can still advise the restaurant on the beach in Astris. He is there, it seems one. As an alternative to fast food on the board in Ppiji Ammos, where tourists from Aeria and Aeolis hotels are around. At Pupil Ammos Egni did not impress, because they went to dine in Astria when they handed over the car. There, too, quite a decent kitchen and a pleasant place in itself, right on the shore. Salad skewers-yogurt sauce and a jug of wine went out at € 18. Visitors can use umbrellas and sun loungers.
What is amazing, but with such enhanced nutrition, I even managed to lose weight during the rest. Although I honestly spit on everything and enjoyed the rest without thinking about the figure. By the way, I also did not see any particularly thick Greeks, but they should definitely fully with such a diet. Probably, this is obtained thanks to natural healthy products.
Prices in Taverns
On average, you can focus on the following prices:
- Greek salad - € 5-5.3;
- Suvlaki (kebab) - € 6-6.4;
- Tzatzyki (sauce) - € 2.8-3;
- Bread (large Baton) - € 0.8;
- wine 0.5l - € 3.5-7 (for 3.5 nothing);
- Beer - € 2 per bottle.
Fish and goat is more expensive than chicken and other meat.
Products in supermarkets
In supermarkets you can buy any products familiar to us: milk, yoghurts, bread, cheeses, cosmetics, alcoholic beverages, mineral water, sweets, olive oil, vegetables and fruits. Food is in any village. The greatest supermarkets are located next to Limemas and Panagia. Fresh meat can be found in Limenaria on the main street.
Prices in the supermarket in Tassos in 2014:
- Wine costs from € 3 in 0.7l;
- portion of lettuce - € 1;
- beer - € 0.7-0.8;
- Liter bottle of orange juice - € 2.76;
- Two jars of yogurt - € 1.93;
- Packaging of croissants - € 2.37;
- Watermelon - in the area of 500 rubles.