Livadh · Himarë · Albania

Greek cooking, under the vine.

Name: Restaurant Odissea
Address: Himarë–Livadh Road, Himarë, Vlorë County, 9425, AL
Telephone: +355 69 461 4931
Rating: 4.8

On the Himarë–Livadh road: fish, the dishes of a Greek kitchen, and pizza besides. Blue and white tables on the flagstones, a creeper over the whole front, and the boards standing out on the road with the cooking written up by hand.

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4.8 out of 5 on TripAdvisor

The painted Odissea Restaurant sign, red lettering and two galleys on a blue board with a Greek key border, fixed under the white pergola roof

The boards

Written up by hand, out at the road.

Two boards stand on the pavement at the front. This is what is written on the first of them in the photograph beside it — the fish at the top, then the pots, then the sweet things.

Read the boards

Fresh fish: Haddock
Gilthead bream
Sea bass
Fresh food: Moussaka
Pastitsio
Stuffed peppers
Giant beans
Dessert: Orange pie
Chocolate soufflé
Cheesecake

Two handwritten chalkboards standing on the pavement outside the restaurant, one headed Fresh-Fish and one headed Pizza — The boards, out on the road.

Under the vine

Blue and white, on the stones.

The terrace sits back off the road behind a low stone wall, under a slatted white roof with a creeper grown right across it. Painted timber chairs, gingham on the seats, cloths on the tables.

Blue and white painted timber tables and chairs with gingham seat pads on the flagstone terrace — Blue and white, on the flagstones.

Laid tables under the white slatted pergola ceiling, with the green canopy along one side — Laid up under the roof.

A plate of seafood risotto with mussels, prawns, clams and squid, finished with chives — Off the pass.

All the photographs

Livadh

About three hundred metres up from the water.

Livadh is the long shingle beach at the north end of Himarë, and the road that runs behind it is this one. Come up off the beach and the boards are on your left.

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The pebble beach and clear water at Livadh, Himarë, in daylight

The kitchen

What is cooked

Greek
Seafood
Pizza

Fresh seafood. The traditional dishes. Homemade desserts. Pizza and pasta.

Tables are taken on the telephone, on +355 69 461 4931.

The coast

What is down the road

The Ionian sea and the coastline seen from Livadh, Himarë — The water this coast is walked for.

Sunset over the Ionian from the shore at Livadh, Himarë — The end of the day at Livadh.