The restaurant · open to the town

A marble room whose front folds all the way back

Mediterranean and Greek-leaning cooking with a lot of seafood, on the ground floor of the hotel and on the terrace in front of it, open to anyone who walks in off the promenade.

The dining room with marble walls and live-edge timber tables, its folding glass front open to the terrace and the sea

The glass front folds back completely, so the dining room and the terrace become one

Sitting down

You do not have to be staying here

This is a public restaurant, not a half-board dining room. It keeps its own phone line, and it takes walk-ins off the promenade all day.

The room is marble-walled with live-edge timber tables, black steel and brass bulbs, and a gilt-framed seascape on the wall. When the weather allows — which on this coast is most of the time — the entire glass frontage folds away and the tables run out onto the terrace, with the seafront road and then the water in front of them.

The cooking is Mediterranean and Greek-leaning, with a lot of seafood. Cash only, as upstairs — where the four rooms are.

To book a table

+355 69 380 6330

Breakfast, lunch and dinner, every day. No opening times are published on any channel, so ring and ask what today looks like.

Call the restaurant

Staying upstairs? The hotel desk is on +355 69 839 7183, staffed 24 hours.

Dishes photographed at these tables

What has come out of this kitchen

There is no printed card to put online. What follows is a record of plates that have come out of this kitchen, described from the house’s own photographs. Dishes change with the boats and the season, and prices are never printed here.

Grilled squid, whole prawns and pieces of octopus on a white plate with half a lemon

Mixed seafood off the grill

squid, prawns and octopus on one plate, with half a lemon

Rice with black mussels in the shell, a prawn and rings of squid in a dark pan

Seafood rice

black mussels still in the shell, with prawn and squid, in a dark pan

Linguine with a whole prawn, cherry tomatoes and strips of courgette in a white bowl

Prawn linguine

cherry tomato and courgette, in oil

Whole cooked prawns on lettuce leaves on a speckled grey oval platter, with half a lemon

Whole prawns

on lettuce, with half a lemon

A wooden bowl of tomato, cucumber, sliced onion, green chilli rings and black olives

Salad in a wooden bowl

tomato, cucumber, onion, green chilli and olives

Courgette fritters

fried, with thick yoghurt and a square of fried cheese

Grilled fish

whole off the grill, with a lemon wedge

Slices of toasted bread topped with chopped tomato, cucumber and crumbled white cheese

Bruschetta

chopped tomato, cucumber and white cheese on toasted bread

Breakfast on the terrace, under the sign

Breakfast

The thing guests write about

Booking.com awards this property its Exceptional Breakfast badge and scores it 9.9, and breakfast is the single feature that recurs most in the reviews. Served on the terrace with the headland across the bay.

Croissants
Omelettes
Fried dough balls
Tomato, cucumber, olives and white cheese
Fresh fruit — apple, banana, strawberries
Butter and preserves
Orange juice

What arrives varies with the morning. Whether breakfast is included depends on the rate — that is shown per option on Booking.com.

The view from the restaurant terrace, past the planters and an olive tree, across the seafront road to the sea and the wooded headland, with the ARXONTIKO sign at the right

From a terrace table, late afternoon

A laid table inside the restaurant, black plates and a bottle of white wine, with the deck and the open sea beyond the folded-back frontage

Laid for lunch

The lit frontage of the restaurant at night, the ARXONTIKO sign lettered in gold on its dark blue plaque beside the pavement tables

After dark, from the promenade