An all-day cafe and brunch room on Empedokleous, Pagrati. Open since 2018. Coffee from 8, brunch from 11, wine from 18:30.
Two weeks every summer the door stays shut. The team rests, the oven is cleaned, the espresso machine gets stripped. We come back in September with the same people, which is the only way we know how to work.
“I have a double cortado at 8:15 every morning, six days a week, since the day they opened. Andreas remembers I take it in a glass cup. The croissant Eirini bakes on Friday is the only reason I weigh more than I did in 2018.”
“The lemon ricotta pancakes are the best in this city, full stop. Sofia poured me a flat white last Saturday that tasted like jasmine — turns out it was the new Yirgacheffe lot. They told me which farm. Who does that?”
“I live across the street and I work nights. I come in for the burnt-edge slice of the country loaf and a slow filter coffee at three in the afternoon, when the lunch rush is over. They keep a chair for me at the small two-top by the window. That is hospitality.”
“Booked a table for brunch on a Sunday. Marios sent out the slow beans on toast and the Marathon eggs Benedict. I asked where the eggs came from and a server walked me through Eleni Vamvouri's farm story. The wine list at six in the evening is unreasonable for a cafe — in the best way.”
“I wanted a flat white at half-past four and the bar had already started cleaning the machine for the wine service. They made me one anyway and waved off the price. I came back the next day for the wine. Stayed for three glasses of the orange Tsililis.”
What's on the brunch menu next week, the coffee Andreas just opened, the Pagrati shop Eirini is loving. CF7 inline form: email + GDPR consent.