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ARXONTIKORestaurant · Himarë

Arxontiko · Spile, Himarë

Prawns, figs, green grapes.

A marble room with a folding glass front on the Spile seafront in Himarë — the ground floor of the ARXONTIKO hotel. Mediterranean and Greek, cash only.

What comes out of the kitchenWhere it is
Prawns arranged with quartered figs and green grapes in a pool of olive oil on a white plate

Whose ground floor this is

One building, two businesses

ARXONTIKO is a family hotel on the Spile seafront. The restaurant takes its whole ground floor, opens onto the promenade, and serves anyone who walks in — you do not have to be staying upstairs. It answers its own phone, which is why it has its own pages here.

If it is a room you are after rather than a table, that is ARXONTIKO upstairs.

The meal, in order

Plates photographed at these tables

No menu is published anywhere, so there is not one here either. What follows is a record of what has come out of this kitchen, described from the photographs and nothing else.

  1. Yoghurt, fried cheese, courgette fritterswith toasted bread, at a table set with the house monogram
  2. Prawns with figs and green grapesin olive oil, on a white plate
  3. Prawns with pink peppercornsolive oil and a slice of lemon, on speckled glaze
  4. Fried calamari with rocketlemon on the side, in a dark bowl
See every plate

A marble box

White marble lines the dining room wall, with bulbs hung on rope cords and the glasses racked above the black counter. It is a cold, bright room, and in Himarë in August that is the point.

A marble-walled dining room with wooden tables, rope-hung bulbs and glassware racked above a dark counter

The loud banquette

Along one wall the seating runs orange, burgundy, mustard and teal in a row, under a gold-framed painting of rocks and shallow water. It is the loudest thing in a room otherwise made of marble, timber and glass, and the whole site takes its colour from here.

Laid tables in front of a banquette upholstered in orange, burgundy and mustard, beneath a gold-framed painting of rocks in shallow water

A wall that leaves

The street elevation is black-framed folding glass. In summer it concertinas flat and the room opens straight onto the deck, the road and the bay behind it. There is no threshold to speak of once it is open.

The restaurant's folding glass front opened onto a timber deck, with the bay and headland beyond

Across the road

What is nearby

  • The seafront road, then the wateracross the road
  • Spile Beach50 m
  • Prinos Beach350 m
  • Potam Beachabout 1 km on foot around the headland
  • Himarë Castle and the old village4 km — about 10 minutes up the hill
  • Porto Palermo8 km south — about 15 minutes

Questions

Is this the same place as ARXONTIKO the hotel?
Same building. The restaurant takes the ground floor of ARXONTIKO, the family hotel on the Spile seafront, and it is open to anyone who walks in — you do not have to be staying upstairs. It answers its own phone line, which is why it has its own pages here. Rooms and rates are on the hotel's site.
What time does the kitchen open?
There are no set opening times published here. Ring +355 69 380 6330 and ask what is running today.
Do you need to book a table?
The restaurant takes walk-ins. There is no online reservation system; the phone is the only channel.
Can you pay by card?
No. Payment is cash. The nearest cash machine is about a hundred metres up the seafront, towards the centre of Himarë.
Is there a menu online?
No menu is published anywhere. What is on this site is a set of plates photographed at these tables — a record of what has come out of this kitchen, not a card you can order from.
What is the cooking like?
Mediterranean and Greek-leaning, with a lot of seafood. The plates on this site are prawns, calamari, fried cheese, courgette fritters and yoghurt.

Rruga Jorgji Bollano, Spile · cash only · +355 69 380 6330