Odýsseia: She Sails to Athens | plomaipel
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One of those butcher shops, on the corner of Socratous street (Euripides and Socrates!) is Karamanlidika.
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They use market-fresh ingredients and the charcuterie and cheeses they sell to make scrumptious small dishes and full entrees.
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And then I wanted more jewels! But although the Benaki has an excellent shop, I was due to meet Miss I in what would be the ultimate dining experience: Karamanlidika, a place her mother had serendipitously discovered the previous week and which unbeknownst to us was TripAdvisor’s #4 in all of Athens (as of the day I write this, it’s risen to #2). To get there, you auspiciously walk through Evripidou street, which despite its ramshackle character houses some WONDERFUL spice stores where Miss I generally stocks up, and luscious butcher shops:
Spice Meat
One of those butcher shops, on the corner of Socratous street (Euripides and Socrates!) is Karamanlidika.
Karamanlidika Facade – Karamanlidika counter
They use market-fresh ingredients and the charcuterie and cheeses they sell to make scrumptious small dishes and full entrees. Although the menu is in Greek (they have an English menu but it still read like Greek to me!), everything was described in perfect Spanish to us by the wonderful manager María Jesús de los Reyes Ces Domínguez (full name, y olé!), a Castilian who has spent over thirty years in Greece, as nice as the rest of her staff.
Maria
And if you just surrender to her recommendations you’ll be doing just fine. So I can’t name most of what we ate, but I can show you the dishes, and more revealingly the look on Miss I’s face when she put a bite in her mouth:
Karamanlidika Food – Karamanlidika – Miss I
Or what happened to me when I tasted their complimentary dessert of candied carrots (yes, candied carrots) on yogurt:
Candied Carrots
It was Finger-Lickin’ Good, bejewelled fingers or not (not the time for ladylike elegance and dignity!). Remember that scene in When Harry Met Sally? Except this wasn’t faked.
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Published: May 2020
