Potam · Himarë · Albania
Taverna Velco
What it is
A Greek taverna at Potam, on the coast road south of Himarë. You eat under a pitched timber roof with the sides open, dried herbs and strings of garlic overhead, on a floor of old patterned tiles. The kitchen's subject is fish.
The same family lets rooms in the same building, and the business trades as Velco Rooms & Taverna. This is the taverna half of it.
The kitchen
Greek cooking, and the sea in front of it
Greek
Himarë has a long-settled Greek-speaking community, and this kitchen belongs to that side of the water rather than to the Adriatic one.
Seafood
Whole fish, grilled, and sent out with lemon and a plate of leaves beside it. It is what the table is set for and what people come back for.
What is cooking on the day depends on what came in that morning. Ask at the table. What the common fish go for around Himarë is written down elsewhere.
Scores
Google and Tripadvisor
- 4.7 / 5
- Tripadvisor
- 4.5 / 5
Potam
Three hundred and thirty-nine metres to the water
A straight line from the taverna's coordinate to the near edge of Potam Beach, bearing 255°, west-south-west. The road is longer than the line.
Finding it