One of the most well-known areas of Athens is being explored gastronomically by “Neighborhoods on a Plate” and Dimitris Skarmoutsos as they visit Exarchia this Saturday, June 1 at 4:45 p.m.

They took their name from the great merchant Vasilios Exarchos and the historic grocery store he kept at the junction of Themistokleous and Solonos streets.

The tour starts at the now famous ‘The Black Salami’, a modern and stylish micro-bakery inspired by the bakeries of Rome. One of its creators, Antonis, loves good flour, leaven and in general all kinds of dough and this is reflected in every product made here by the total of six cooks! Excellent bread, pies and of course…sandwiches!

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A stop at “Sybetherou” fills us with flavors and aromas, here is one of the best grocery stores in the Exarchia area. Thanasis took over the shop of Cretan products from his father and enriched its shelves with cheeses and cured meats, nuts, honey, pasta and all kinds of delicacies from all over Greece.

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At the Kurdish restaurant “Hayat” Dimitris Skarmoutsos meets Seit. He first came to Greece in 1986 and a few years ago he decided to open a small and cozy shop here where they cook the cuisine of their homeland as a family. It is worth trying aromatic lakhmatjoon and pasturmad pie, juicy kebabs and homemade spicy mandi.

The walk to Exarchia ends with “Pharao” which was the first shop of the well-known Chef Manolis Papoutsakis in Athens. A very beautiful space in which Greek recipes with many Cretan touches and local ingredients, cooked mainly in wood stoves, are the star.

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Returning to the studio, Dimitris Skarmoutsos prepares two delicious recipes: bows with vegetable-Primavera sauce and tacos al pastor.

See you next week in another neighborhood!

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