A 2026 Guide To Greece’s Best Restaurants

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A 2026 Guide To Greece’s Best Restaurants

Greece's most prestigious culinary award has crowned its 2026 entries with its Xrysoi Skoufoi - or Golden Toques. As Greece’s highest culinary distinction, the awards, organised annually and now in its 33rd edition, celebrate exceptional restaurants across the country.

From intimate Santorini terraces overlooking the Caldera to landmark Athens dining rooms, these are the restaurants that define Greek gastronomy right now:

Athens

Botrini’s: the capital's standout, is the flagship of chef Hector Botrini. Two tasting menus create dialogue between Greek and Italian cuisine, drawing from memory, place, and tradition. A benchmark of contemporary fine dining in the city.

Delta: Conceptual, sustainable, and resolutely creative, Delta offers one of Athens' most thought-provoking tasting menus - nature-driven dishes built around provenance, fermentation, and seasonal produce.

Hervé: Built around an open fine dining kitchen and its dramatic bar, Hervé blends the rigour of French gastronomy with delicate Asian influences. An original and highly personal tasting menu.

Pelagos: Inside the Four Seasons Astir Palace, Pelagos delivers a seafood-centred menu of exceptional technical precision - French classical foundations meeting modern Mediterranean creativity, with a wine list to match.

Varoulko Seaside: A landmark of Greek gastronomy overlooking Mikrolimano marina. Lefteris Lazarou's legendary seafood restaurant, Varoulko Seaside, is a reflection of the Greek seaside, fresh, inventive, and timeless.

CTC: One of Athens' most consistent fine dining destinations, drawing freely from Greek and international classics. Signature dishes like corn soup with lobster sit alongside exciting seasonal offerings.

Makris Athens: Housed in an atmospheric building on Ermou pedestrian street in Thissio, Makris Athens presents a creative modern cuisine rooted in Greek produce - many ingredients sourced from the chef's own farm in Ancient Corinth.

Matsuhisa Athens: Nobu Matsuhisa's culinary philosophy brings consistent quality to Athens—top sushi, black cod, Wagyu on the robata, and standout signatures featuring local ingredients. A globally recognized experience.

Patio: Set in the inner courtyard of The Margi hotel, Patio offers two refined tasting menus marked by high technique and beautifully balanced intensity. A strong fine dining character in a quietly elegant setting.

Soil: In a beautiful 1925 neoclassical building, this restaurant presents a deeply personal cuisine with an earthy, sustainability-focused philosophy - advanced technique in service of genuine flavour.

Spondi: A historic institution of Athenian fine dining, spread across the stone rooms and elegant courtyard of a neoclassical building on Pyrronos Street. Refined, seasonal, and classically rooted, with a legendary wine cellar.

Tudor Hall: Atop the iconic King George hotel with a sweeping view over Athens, Tudor Hall combines technical excellence with confidence and maturity. A consistently high-performing rooftop experience.

Aleria: Set in a renovated neoclassical building in Metaxourgeio, Aleria is one of Athens' most atmospheric restaurants. Modern techniques and inventive combinations are applied to the Greek culinary repertoire, with a strong sense of the seasons.

GB Roof Garden: Glamour and metropolitan elegance atop the legendary Grande Bretagne hotel. A creative menu that approaches classic ideas with a contemporary, cosmopolitan sensibility, and one of Athens' finest wine programmes.

Onuki Athens: A first Golden Toque for this new arrival inside the Ilisian hotel. Drawing inspiration from different regions of Japan, Onuki offers umami-forward, seasonal Japanese cooking in a sleek metropolitan setting.

Veri Table: An authentic French bistro devoted to gastronomic classicism. Expect precisely executed dishes - terrine of foie gras, boudin with scallops, and classical technique applied with genuine soul.

Santorini

Botrini's Santorini: From one of Oia's most elegant terraces, with a breathtaking view of the Caldera, this is fine dining at a compelling altitude. Finesse, originality, and bold flavour combinations, paired with an impeccably curated wine list.

Elements Restaurant: within the luxurious Canaves Epitome, presents a menu driven by memories with international influences. Rare wines from the hotel's private cellar add an extra dimension to an already remarkable experience.

Lauda: Three-Michelin-starred chef Emmanuel Renaut's Santorini outpost, on the legendary terrace descending towards the Caldera. French gastronomic culture meets select Santorini ingredients - dynamic, precise, and beautiful.

Selene: One of Santorini's most iconic restaurant names, housed in Katikies Garden. A modern Greek menu with an emphasis on local island ingredients, served in a romantic courtyard of arched vaults and palms.

Lycabettus Restaurant: Cosmopolitan atmosphere and discreet luxury at one of Oia's finest spots. French finesse, technical depth, and an exceptional wine list - with a view that is simply unforgettable.

Petra Restaurant: Dinner around an atmospherically lit pool in a romantic courtyard that practically hangs on the volcanic rocks of Oia. A modern take on Greek flavour, impressively composed and presented.

Varoulko Santorini: The Santorini outpost of Lefteris Lazarou's iconic Varoulko, perched in one of the most privileged spots on the Caldera at Imerovigli. His signature seafood cuisine is delivered with creativity and bold confidence.

Mykonos

Baos: With a magical view of Mykonos Town and carefully curated art de la table, Baos is one of the island's most refined dining experiences, imaginative, technically accomplished, and well worth seeking out.

Yēvo: Situated in one of Mykonos' most stylish open-air spaces, Yēvo celebrates Greek raw materials through creative and balanced combinations. An elegant counterpoint to the island's more exuberant dining scene.

Matsuhisa Mykonos: Around the legendary pool of the Belvedere hotel, Nobu Matsuhisa's world-famous fusion of Japanese and Latin American influences has reclaimed its Golden Toque. A cosmopolitan Mykonos institution.

Corfu & the Ionian Islands

Etrusco: Named Greece's best restaurant for the 14th consecutive year, Etrusco is the flagship of chef Hector Botrini and the highest-scoring restaurant in the country. A dining experience of intense flavour, technical mastery, and emotional depth that bridges the Ionian Islands and Italy in a way that feels utterly singular. The service and wine list are equally exceptional.

Venetian Well: Tables arranged around a centuries-old Venetian well in a small square of Corfu's UNESCO-listed Old Town. A romantic setting for a refined modern Greek menu that revisits classic Corfiot specialties with real sophistication.

Makris Corfu: With panoramic views over the Ionian Sea, the Makris family's Corfu outpost offers creative modern cuisine and near-theatrical presentations on one of the island's most scenic hotel terraces.

Fiore: Staged on a stylish wooden deck directly over the water - evoking the feel of a private yacht - Fiore presents a flavour narrative rooted in Zakynthian and Ionian cuisine, treated with a modern culinary eye.

Melia: A fresh take on traditional Ionian recipes, with carefully selected raw materials and modern technique. A confident kitchen with a clear sense of place.

Prosilio: In the blooming garden courtyard of an old Zakynthos Town mansion, Prosilio presents a distinctive modern Ionian cuisine that grows more expressive and experiential with each passing year.

Halkidiki

Treehouse: A wooden terrace perched in a pine tree overlooking Vourvourou Bay — one of Greece's most extraordinary settings for a meal. The imaginative degustation menu draws heavily on the hotel's own garden.

Andromeda: The central dining room of The Danai presents a refined version of modern Mediterranean cuisine - technically precise, carefully sourced, and consistently expressive.

Bubo Fine Dining: Grounded in tradition and generosity, Bubo presents a modern Greek cuisine with produce from the hotel's own garden. A personal and legible style with real flavour depth.

The Cyclades & Beyond

Matsuhisa Paros: Nobu’s signature Japanese–Latin fusion delivered with precision and freshness in an open-air Paros setting. High-level sushi, timeless signatures, and excellent service.

Ches: On the arty terrace of Ios's Liostasi hotel, Ches offers a refined gastronomic experience drawn from Cycladic cuisine, a confident and characterful island restaurant.

Agora: On the rooftop of a boutique hotel on one of the Dodecanese's most beautiful islands, Agora brings a serious fine dining experience to bear on a Greek-oriented menu. A debut that puts Symi firmly on the gastronomic map.

Peloponnese, Thessaloniki & the Rest of Greece

Onuki Costa Navarino: A cosmopolitan terrace with sea views, presenting a creative panorama of Japanese flavours, minimalist, precise, and executed with excellent raw materials.

The Private Kitchen: 16 seats around an open kitchen: as exclusive as Greek dining gets. A unique tasting menu rooted in French technique and exceptional produce. A truly intimate fine dining encounter.

Anama: Set inside a historic Corinthian raisin cooperative, Anama is a chef's personal vision realised in a uniquely atmospheric space. Dishes with strong personality and a distinctive culinary point of view - well worth the detour.

Salonika Restaurant & Bar: A glamorous space with panoramic views of the Thermaic Gulf, serving a deeply flavourful modern Greek cuisine that embraces traditional ingredients with contemporary confidence.

Noble Gourmet: A driving force in the renaissance of Rhodian fine dining, with four tasting menus that reinterpret local recipes handed down through generations, with a modern, creative eye and accomplished technique.

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All Images/Videos Are Attributed In Order Of Appearance (Top To Bottom): Makris Athens, Botrini's Santorini, Matsuhisa Mykonos, Etrusco Corfu, Agora Symi, Noble