Taste Athens Diane Kochilas’ restaurant and food guide to the best places to eat, drink, and find Greek gourmet products and wines in Athens, Greece. app for iPhone and iPad


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Travel Food & Drink
Developer: Diane Kochilas
2.99 USD
Current version: 1.0, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 22 May 2015
App size: 119.86 Mb

The ultimate insider’s restaurant and food guide to Athens is now available as an application for iOS.
Discover more than 250 of Athens’ most authentic eating, drinking and food destinations, personally chosen by Diane Kochilas, “the Julia Child of Greek cooking,” an award-winning cookbook author, celebrity chef and cooking teacher, who has made Athens her home for more than two decades. For much of that time she has been the restaurant critic for the city’s largest daily newspaper and knows the food scene of this multi-layered, history-filled capital intimately.
FEATURES
Each venue has been selected, visited, and tested by Diane, whose concise, informative, entertaining descriptions make you feel like an instant insider, armed with knowledge about this complex, fascinating city, with its ancient, timeless Mediterranean food culture.
The app is a compendium of Diane’s top picks for restaurants, tavernas, souvlaki joints, street food stalls, gourmet delicatessens, cheese and charcuterie shops, ice cream, Greek yogurt, chocolate, and phyllo pastry emporia, outdoor farmers’ markets, wine bars, and more.
A detailed glossary helps you understand the basics of Greek cuisine, with definitions of the different types of dining establishments, explanations of cooking terms and the types of foods you’re likely to find on Greek menus, and a guide to Greek wines and spirits that will help you choose the best quaffs in any dining situation.
A cheese section helps you understand the undiscovered world of Greek cheeses way beyond feta.
An edible souvenirs section will help you choose the best food-lover’s gifts to bring home.
Browse the app contents by category, alphabetically, or by neighborhood.
A map of greater Athens shows all the selected addresses, with thumbnails of each culinary destination and GPS locations to guide you to the best restaurants and food shops in Athens neighborhoods.
App users can call venues directly, link to venue websites and facebook pages, and find clear, easy directions for how to get to every venue on the map.
Hundreds of pictures by Athens filmmaker Andreas Economakis showcase the restaurants, bars, cafes, markets and shops, their interiors, dishes, products and more.