The Giouvetsakia taverna<\/a> is one I had walked past not long ago and thought it looked quite nice. IIt was actually one of the best meals I’ve had in Athens. the taverna is in fact one of the oldest in Plaka, going back to the 1950s. It has excellent reviews online. The ingredients are all locally sourced – the bread even comes from one of Athens’ best bakeries!<\/p>\nThe waiter there couldn\u2019t quite believe it when I spoke to him in Greek \u2013 he had to double check\u2026
\n\u03a3: \u00ab\u0395\u03b3\u03b3\u03bb\u03ad\u03b6\u03bf\u03c2 \u03b5\u03af\u03c3\u03b1\u03b9;\u00bb (AreyouanEnglishman?)
\n\u03a6: \u00ab\u039d\u03b1\u03b9\u00bb.
\n\u03a3: \u00ab\u038c\u03bb\u03bf\u03b9 \u0395\u03b3\u03b3\u03bb\u03ad\u03b6\u03bf\u03c2;\u00bb (AllEnglishman?)
\n\u03a6: \u00ab\u039d\u03b1\u03b9!\u00bb
\n\u03a3: \u00ab\u039a\u03b1\u03b9 \u03bc\u03b9\u03bb\u03ac\u03c2 \u0395\u03bb\u03bb\u03b7\u03bd\u03b9\u03ba\u03ac!\u00bb
\n\u03a6: \u00ab\u039d\u03b1\u03b9, \u03c0\u03c1\u03bf\u03c3\u03c0\u03b1\u03b8\u03ce. \u0388\u03c7\u03c9 \u03bc\u03af\u03b1 \u03b4\u03b1\u03c3\u03ba\u03ac\u03bb\u03b1 \u03c3\u03c4\u03b7\u03bd \u0391\u03b3\u03b3\u03bb\u03af\u03b1 \u03c0\u03bf\u03c5 \u03ad\u03bc\u03b5\u03b9\u03bd\u03b5 \u03c3\u03c4\u03b7\u03bd \u0395\u03bb\u03bb\u03ac\u03b4\u03b1.\u00bb<\/p>\n
Needless to say, he was more than happy to take a photo of me standing in front of his restaurant. Of all the meals I\u2019ve had in Athens, tonight\u2019s giouvetsi I enjoyed the most. It may have been a bit on the pricey side, but that\u2019s what you should expect when you eat in the tourist districts in Athens, as opposed to nearer my hotel.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow, I leave Athens for the final time: It is almost like it is the beginning of the end now, as for my final two and a half weeks in Greece I\u2019m up in the North of Greece. I\u2019m heading to Kalambaka tomorrow, then continuing on to Thessaloniki on Saturday, before Mum, Dad and Corrie arrive on Wednesday and we head to Thassos.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m off to bed.<\/p>\n
Good night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For my evening meal, I found the area of Plaka (\u03a0\u03bb\u03ac\u03ba\u03b1) I was looking for on Monday night but missed; I went to the Gouvetsakia (\u0393\u03b9\u03bf\u03c5\u03b2\u03b5\u03c4\u03c3\u03ac\u03ba\u03b9\u03b1) taverna, on one of the narrow pedestrianised streets, where I enjoyed a brilliant (you\u2019ve guessed it) veal giouvetsi\/\u03b3\u03b9\u03bf\u03b2\u03ad\u03c4\u03c3\u03b9. The Giouvetsakia taverna is one I had walked past not long […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[135,96,94,19,78],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athens","tag-athens","tag-giouvetsakia","tag-giouvetsi","tag-plaka","tag-taverna"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/greece2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/greece2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/greece2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/greece2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/greece2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/greece2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314,"href":"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/greece2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions\/314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/greece2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/greece2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fred-hart.uk\/greece2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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For my evening meal, I found the area of Plaka (\u03a0\u03bb\u03ac\u03ba\u03b1) I was looking for on Monday night but missed; I went to the Gouvetsakia (\u0393\u03b9\u03bf\u03c5\u03b2\u03b5\u03c4\u03c3\u03ac\u03ba\u03b9\u03b1) taverna, on one of the narrow pedestrianised streets, where I enjoyed a brilliant (you\u2019ve guessed it) veal giouvetsi\/\u03b3\u03b9\u03bf\u03b2\u03ad\u03c4\u03c3\u03b9.<\/p>\n