Athens has been eating in Monastiraki and Psiri since before these neighborhoods had names. This tour showcases the best of it's traditional cuisine!

Three and a half hours through the city's most vibrant historical quarter, with five stops that each tell a different part of the same story. A mother and her two daughters run a café tucked inside a hidden gallery next to the city's oldest record store. You drink Greek coffee and eat a rose petal spoon sweet while they explain how it's made. At Bougatsadiko Psiri, one of the only places in Athens still making handmade pies from scratch, you choose your filling from spinach, cheese, meat, or custard cream, and eat it fresh from the oven. At Enteka, you build your own souvlaki: load the pita with gyro meat, tzatziki, onion, and tomato, and eat it with a cold Greek beer.

Between stops, the Central Market — open since 1886 with price-regulated stalls for fish and meat — and Terra Fresh, the 24-hour deli beside it selling dried figs, walnuts, and raisins that Greeks have eaten since antiquity. At Zarkadian, the meze: Feta with olive oil and oregano, Graviera with figs, Anthotiro with honey and walnuts on rusks, two cold cuts from the refugee communities that arrived in 1922, white wine, tsipouro, and ouzo.

Loukoumades close the tour. Fried to order, ten to a portion, topped with honey and cinnamon. Greeks made these for the winners of the ancient Olympic Games.

Come hungry and eat your way through one of the world's great food cities!