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Historical Donut Shop in Athens Shuts Down After 91 Years Due to Crisis

Aegeon, the most historical donut shop in Athens, has shut down due to the economic crisis, 91 years after it first opened its doors in central Athens. Greek donuts, called loukoumades, are deep fried and served on a plate with...

Zonar's: A Center for Politics, Art and Culture to Reopen in Athens

Zonar’s is a classic café and pastry shop located in downtown Athens near Syntagma Square that has been operating since the summer of 1940. Numerous Greek intellectuals, politicians and actors have established Zonar's as the most historic hangout place in Athens, making...

BBC Short Documentary Explores Greek Café in Crete

BBC has released a short documentary on a Greek cooperative grocery shop café located in Archanes, Crete. “Ploumi,” the cooperative cafe and grocery store in Archanes first opened its doors in 2014 and has become one of the many autonomous...

Melitini: A Sweet Greek Crisis Story Made in Santorini!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVptrXbFM-Y What you get at "Melitini" is Greek products only! A former banker, Pantelis Hadjiconstantis, and his childhood friend Takis Drosos, left behind their lives in Athens and moved to Santorini to open the first traditional cafe that serves only Greek...

Exhibit Shows Rise Of Greek Cafes

An  exhibition entitled Selling An American Dream: Australia's Greek Cafe, will be launched on March 27 as part of the Greek Festival of Sydney. The gallery’s curator and historian Leonard Janiszewski and photographer Effy Alexakis worked on documenting the historical...