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Traditonal Greek Food

Most of the taverns and restaurants have their menus written in English, German, French, Greek, Polish and Romanian. The waiters invite you in all the languages above to sit down and wish you "enjoy your lunch''. They thank you for stopping by their taverns and they invite you to return.

Once arrived in Paralia Katerini, you simply must try all of their traditional dishes. Here are some of them: buiurdi (a variety of cheese sortiments and flavours baked in chatties, typiti (spicy cheese pasta), eggplant moussaka or souvlakia (skewers with spicies). You may also try fresh sallads, all prepared with their famos olive oil and a great variety of fish and sea fruits. As for traditional dessert, you can try the baclava or the delicious fruit yoghurt. And don't forget to taste their white wine. It's great!

One of the mysteries of life is how on earth anyone could have eaten an olive off an olive tree and decided that this 'fruit' could somehow be edible. Next time you are in Greece you can try this yourself. Just reach up and pull off an olive, it does not matter if it is ripe or not, and taste it. You may find it to be one of the nastiest things you have ever put in your mouth. And yet somehow this little fruit and the oil it gives has become the staple of not only Greece but the entire Mediterranean.

The busiest shop in any Greek village is the local bakery. Bread was at one time the staple food of Greece and is still eaten at every meal, large hunks dipped in remaining sauce and olive oil, or coated with tsatziki (garlic-cucumber-yogurt dip), tarama salata (fish roe salad) or melitzana salata (eggplant salad). There is nothing better than going to a local bakery and buying a loaf of fresh village bread and eating it while it is still hot. Some village bakeries still use wood burning stoves and the same wholesome recipes their fathers and grandfathers had used. Others have bent to the desire of the Athenian middle-class, making bread with white flower. Lately there has been a surge in the popularity of the healthier dark bread sometimes called mavro psomi. Horiatiko psomi means village bread and that is usually a mixture of whole and refined flour. There are also breads for different occasions.

For me, Greek food is the best in the world. Not just because they use fresh vegetables and they don't overpower with spices, but because it comes with the whole package of wine and conversation that can go all afternoon or all night long. As anyone who has visited Greece will tell you, eating and drinking is a way of life there and those British holidaymakers who stay in self-catering rooms and apartments fixing their little English meals, are missing out on one of the best aspects of living in Greece.

Paralia Katerini - Great food - Great fun - Exciting night life - Best prices - Perfect Greece vacation