Food Tours in Athens
Greekality is a Greek company offering food tours in Athens including street food tours, wine and nightlife tours, vegan tours and cooking classes.
Greekality is a company based in Athens and founded by Marina Tsikou. Marina had worked in the travel industry in Greece for many years and was frustrated by the fact that some visitors might come to Greece from half-way around the world, only to dine in tourist traps and never experience the wide range of wonderful Greek food (and wine and spirits) available.
Marina decided to follow her heart and her own passion for food and set up Greekality, so that visitors – and locals – could find authentically Greek places to eat and drink – and to learn to cook some of Greece’s great dishes. Greekality also offers specialist tours, such as street food tours and tours for vegans. Being a vegan in Greece isn’t always easy!
Greekality's Food Tours in Athens
Vegan Tours in Athens
Let’s start with those vegan tours. Not that we're vegans but we have plenty of friends who are, and dining for them isn’t always easy in countries like Greece and Italy, where meat and fish are seen as a natural part of anyone’s diet.
Yet surprisingly, ancient Greece gave birth to the vegan diet, thanks to the teachings of Pythagoras. Known by schoolchildren everywhere for the mathematical Pythagoras Theorem, he was also a scientist and philosopher. He believed that killing animals for their meat brutalised the human soul and people should enjoy instead a plant-based diet.
Greekality’s Vegan Tour of Athens highlights the many vegan restaurants that now exist in Athens, which Forbes rates as one of the top ten cities in the world for vegan cuisine. You’ll enjoy a vegan moussaka, and learn where to find the best vegan street food.
Street Food Tours in Athens
Vegan or otherwise, Athens has some of the best street food in Europe. This 3-hour tour has a maximum of twelve people and is especially good for families. Children don’t have to sit down and behave themselves for an hour or more!
The tour starts in a pie shop where you can sample two of our own favourite Greek street foods: tiropita ( cheese pie) or spanakopita (spinach-feta pie). Just seeing the words makes me want them right now. You’ll also sample peinirli (a kind of Greek pizza), and then on to loukoumades and other oh-so-sweet Greek desserts. This tour is also suitable for vegetarians.
Greek Cookery Class
Having sampled so much good Greek food you’ll want to learn how to make some of it for yourself at home. This 3-hour cookery class is with a Cordon Bleu Athenian chef, who will help you prepare a 4-course meal which you then naturally sit down and enjoy. When you arrive you’ll enjoy some Greek nibbles while the chef talks you through the menu and explains how things will work.
Here’s the usual menu, although of course there may be changes with the seasons:
- Starter: Greek pasta (hilopites) with eggs and mizithra cheese – a recipe from the chef’s grandmother.
- Salad: Local greens or string beans, with baked tomatoes & extra virgin olive oil vinaigrette.
- Main: Lamb or beef in red tomato sauce with trahana (Greek frumenty) – the ultimate Greek comfort dish.
- Dessert: A light and creamy yoghurt panna cotta made with Greek yoghurt and honey.
- Drinks: Greek wine made of native grape varieties.
Other Food Tours in Athens... and Beyond
Other tours on offer include a Taste Athens Greek Food Tour, taking you round the best foodie areas of Athens; Athens Wine Tasting Tour and Nightlife, which speaks for itself; and an Athens Premium Gastronomic Tour, with top food, wine tastings, and ending with cocktails in a rooftop bar with Acropolis views.
Greekality also has private food and wine themed day trips from Athens, which include the Athenian Riviera, a trip to Corinth for tastings of olive oil, wine and local products, and a visit to the island of Aegina, which includes a feast of fresh seafood. You can also book a 6-day foodie tour of the Peloponnese, and having seen the itinerary we can tell right away that it’s going to be a very special experience.
More Information on Food Tours in Athens
Visit the excellent website of Greekality for dates and prices.
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