Delicious ATHENS Food Tour - Greek Food

Delicious ATHENS Food Tour, Greek Food. Food is a huge part of experience in Athens as the city is famous for its simple inviting taverns and authentic street food places. Here you can enjoy in hundreds of dishes and some of them go way back to the Ancient Greek times. Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman cultures also contributed to unique fusion of delicious Greek cuisine, and I can’t wait to share with you my Athens food experience. I will show you the best street food and the best tavern dishes you have to try in Athens, Greece. Hi guys, my name is Rok and I’ve spent the last 9 years travelling around Europe as a tour guide and I can’t wait to take you on a Delicious Athens Food Tour.
Best Greek Food in Athens:
00:00 Intro
00:28 Koulouri
01:00 Tiropita & Spanakopita
01:52 Greek Coffee
02:29 Souvlaki
03:25 Loukoumades
04:07 Anchovy & Sardine
04:45 Taverns
05:15 Tzatziki
05:43 Zucchini Fritters
06:12 Dolmades
06:55 Moussaka
07:35 Conclusion
Awesome Greek Food KZbin Cooking Chanel AKIS KITCHEN / Akis Petretzikis
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LIST OF MY FAVOURITE ATHENS FOOD EXPERIENCES:
Athens: The Classic Food Tasting Tour:
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Athens: 4-Hour Cooking Class with Market Visit:
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Original Gourmet Food Tour of Athens:
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Athens: Food and Wine Tasting Tour at Night:
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Athens: Dinner in the Sky Experience:
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Rok Goes Around
P.S.: Rok is a traveler, a cinematic vlogger and a tour guide. On this travel channel he is combining his 20 years of travelling experience, his 10 years of filmmaking experience and his 9 years of tour guiding experience.

[@dakshajoshi3572]

Greece is magnetic country and very delicious food

[@user-km5ty8sl7v]

Very beautiful, entertainment, , beauty, healthy food straight ahead my regards Dr . Light 😍😍😍🤗🤗🤗😍😍🤗😍

[@rokgoesaround]

Thanks 🤗

[@elenicarter3615]

Thanks for the great video!

[@rokgoesaround]

Happy you like it 🤗

[@maricarmenpozo1742]

All the food look delicious...thanks for video.

[@rokgoesaround]

Thanks. You are right, it was yummy.

[@ShawAdventuresYouTube]

Oh yeah! Super excited to try some of these things when we visit later this year. Thanks for the great video!

[@rokgoesaround]

Thanks. Have a great one 🤗

[@dontimogan]

Thanks Sir Rok for sharing your amazing tour in Athens,,I'ved been here for almost 12 years, but this is my first time seeing a historical content on your channel..thumbsup, subscribed and more power sir

[@rokgoesaround]

Thanks 🤗. Really nice to hear this from someone who lives in Athens. All the best.

[@katrinawarren5091]

Love all you share

[@rokgoesaround]

Thanks 🤗

[@andisacrament825]

Another great to the point video..you got a new subscriber!

[@rokgoesaround]

Thanks

[@chantsd27]

I would love to try them all

[@rokgoesaround]

It is all delicious.

[@WaseemBhai-nh4sp]

Beautiful ❤️

[@jennyjou]

Thank u for ur beautiful vid💙 Have u, guys, tried dolmades wrapped in lettuce leaves? My aunt Toula once gave me some to taste and I was amazed❤

[@rokgoesaround]

Thanks 🤗

[@thusspake9526]

♥

[@SordMasta]

Let's be honest, while Greeks have been pioneers regarding various delicious coffees, such as frape, freddo cappuccino, freddo espresso, fredochino, frapuchino, that "traditional greek coffee" is originally of Arabic origin, Yemen to be exact (sorry Greeks, Turks, Armenians). But having created a couple of vast empires, and also being part of a couple more in the past, Greece's cuisine is just blessed. Fun fact: Athenians call the gyros-wrap "souvlaki" which means small skewer. And they call the small skewer "kalamaki" which actually means small straw. Because logic. Non-Athenians call small skewers as souvlaki, because we use our brains. And save the kalamaki to sip our drinks with, tyvm. And the size of Athenian wraps is just embarrassing to say the least. What is this, a wrap for ants?

[@rokgoesaround]

Thanks for sharing great info. Appreciated.

[@wauliepalnuts6134]

*_"GREEKS HAVE BEEN PIONEERS REGARDING.....COFFEES...._* *_GOES ON TO USE ITALIAN NAMES FOR COFFEE._* 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@TAGMATAGMATON]

@@wauliepalnuts6134 Coffee names are just a marketing choice! Come on, you can't seriously expect to get a ''fredochino'' or ''frapuchino'' in Venice, do you?

[@nomekingg]

I don't think anyone sane actually claims Greek coffee to be originally Greek it's just a name given that stayed with it threw many many years.

[@SuperSetright]

Thanks ''Einstein''.....the world couldn't survive without your genius. Now go play with your ''brain''.

[@96bellagio]

Thanks for the video. Wonder if you have a recommendation of the taverna/cafe where they brake the plates?

[@TKSErlia]

truth i never had a Moussaka with zucchini before, my grandma and mom usually put only eggplant {and potato of course}

[@jodee4684]

I agree, the best tasting Moussaka is the one that is layered with eggplant. The restaurants that use zucchini for their version of Moussaka are cutting costs and cheating the customers out of the authentic experience of this delicious dish that should be with eggplant and not zucchini.

[@arikanti2249]

@@jodee4684 my mother always uses zucchini in our mousaka.

[@Realmasterorder]

Delicious food with lots of traditional flavours for Every taste and all "pockets"you just have to look around and maybe ask a bit,if you want to find the real traditional and special places and establishments

[@BillyDTourist]

Just a clarification. Tzatziki is usually made with white vinegar and not lemon. Also, if you are still in Greece, you should try the soups or stuffed zucchini, with avgolemono (egg lemon sauce)

[@rokgoesaround]

Thanks for clarification. Much appreciated.

[@jodee4684]

Greeks and most Mediterranean countries who cook use fresh squeezed lemon for Tzatziki. I know the Greek restaurants use Red wine vinegar with their olive oil for Greek Salad. White vinegar is a very cheap vinegar and is rarely used except from restaurants who cut costs otherwise White wine vinegar is mostly used to clean vegetables, coffee machines and various things for rinsing out and cleaning agents.

[@asimskentzos9231]

never had it made with vinegar, always lemon

[@mackjeez]

Uhhhhh? I'm Greek and lived in a dozen regions in Greece, I've never heard of tzatziki made with vinegar, it's always lemon juice, where are you getting your info from?

[@BillyDTourist]

@@jodee4684 I cannot find recipes with lemon from any chef, can you provide any ?

[@spiroskarikis9433]

Just one small correction, the original loukoumades are not served with syrup but with honey and nuts.

[@rokgoesaround]

Thanks for the info. Appreciated.

[@spiroskarikis9433]

@@rokgoesaround I really hope you can try them like this one day. A thousand times better.

[@SiXiS4]

ta je naš, burek with feta :)

[@samirachagua5929]

love your videos, could you please tell me if accepting credit cards or only euros, cash dollars are ok thanks

[@rokgoesaround]

Thanks 🤗 You can pay with euros or credit card. Other currencies are not accepted.

[@bobfotoples6950]

moo-sa-KA with the accent on the last syllable.

[@nikkiinepo364]

How far is Tis Theatrou to Stevie from Athens,city center? What is the area called. Thank you

[@rokgoesaround]

Thanks for asking. It is located in the city centre in the Psyri neighborhood. It is less than a 10 minute walk north from the Monastiraki square.

[@melaniedavenport]

Wine leaves?

[@rokgoesaround]

Grapevine leaves.

[@SagaLarton]

I will have you greek style

[@marias.7717]

Όταν βλέπεις το σουβλάκι 2.80€ και θυμάσαι ότι τώρα έχει φτάσει τα 3.50... 🥲🥲🥲

[@dimitrakapa4887]

Εδώ και ένα χρόνο έχω φύγει από Ελλάδα,και μου κάνει εντύπωση ρε γαμωτο που όλα πήραν άνοδο....τρισιμιση ευρώ ένα γύρο?? Έλεος ...

[@georgek5737]

Θυμάμαι όταν ήταν φυσιολογικό να το βρίσκεις 2.20 Είχα πάρει δίπιτο και μου είχε φανεί ακριβό στα 2.30 πιο παλιά Είναι απλά στενάχωρο πλέον.

[@TheTripstraps]

great video!! but when i tasted that coffee in Athens it tasted different from other coffees ever tasted. reminded me of a taste of a seawater or something fishy taste:))). can it be true? otherwise everything was so delicious in Athens. advice to all the pale skinned travellers there - take your sunscreen :D

[@rokgoesaround]

Thanks for sharing your experience and advice. I never had a fishy tasting coffee though 🤗

[@annmenachery5555]

Why are you writing on the screen

[@erdemozcan5435]

Thank you for enjoying Turkish foods 😂

[@sakisgr1396]

Just because your ancestors took foods (from Assyrians, Greeks, Persians etc) and renamed them, it doesn’t make them Turkish in origin… Greeks have solid proof of the origin of many of these foods.

[@erdemozcan5435]

@@sakisgr1396 source?

[@erdemozcan5435]

@@sakisgr1396 What are you talking about? It's funny that a Greek said this. Because many dishes that you think are Greek actually came to your cuisine from Turks. I have been to your country twice. I saw a souvenir Turkish delight, but it said Greek delight on the box. You are also trying to appropriate the characters of Hacivat (you Greeks call it hadjivatis) and Karagöz (you Greeks call it Karagoizis), which belong to Turkish culture, so it's not just the foods. You even call Turkish coffee “Greek” coffee and it's really funny that this is for political reasons. And stop seeing yourself in the giant mirror and accept the facts or dont. But the facts will never change, you will only spend time deceiving yourself.

[@sakisgr1396]

I don’t take culinary lessons from genocide deniers… Lukum was invented by Armenians, Greek coffee is just that,the origins of shadow puppetry are from India and not Turkey again read some books@@erdemozcan5435

[@sakisgr1396]

Gosh you guys are obsessed with trolling Greek content related posts and videos with your misinformation. Shadow puppetry didn’t originate in Turkey but in India so cultures borrowed from that, Greeks made fun of these Ottoman characters precisely because they were under ottoman rule for a while, Lukum is not a Turkish invention but it is Armenian, I can go on and on, but I have a life and I don’t go trolling on Turkish content pages nor do I show ignorance @@erdemozcan5435

[@cryptomain6745]

A lot of these foods are similiar to turkish food

[@rokgoesaround]

Yes you are right, as Athens were under Ottoman empire for many centuries.

[@sakisgr1396]

@@rokgoesaround Turks learned how to cook & many other trades from the native Greeks they enslaved...With forced islamizations due to extreme taxations & devsirme practices, Turks assimilated Greeks & their knowledge that way since they were nomadic conquerors without past knowledge of ingredients native to all the Greek lands they conquered...

[@arikanti2249]

@@rokgoesaround When ottomans conquered Kontantinople (Istanbul as it is known today, or the Byzantine empire) all the sultans wanted to eat like the Greeks. The Greeks that had already been experimenting with ingredients and recipes coming from west to east and vice versa. The same happened BEFORE that when the Roman empire conquered the Greeks. The Elite of the Romans showed their status by how much of a Greek lifestyle they had. They had to have Greek teachers for their kids, they had to have the best Greek cuisine and be the closest to a Greek lifestyle as possible. Let's not forget that even BEFORE that, the empire of Alexander the Great used to transferred ingredients from west to east and vice versa. Theophrastus (Θεόφραστος 371-287 BC) in his book: "The history of plants", was one of the many Greek scientists and philosophers that first described all these products. Their ORIGIN, their taste, their use and their properties. Greeks always shared knowledge. Turks always ravaged, renamed and presented everything as their own. So, who influenced whom?

[@erdemozcan5435]

@@sakisgr1396 If what you say were true, there would be no Greek left in the world today. And stop stealing Turkish food, even your food names are of Turkish origin.

[@sakisgr1396]

@@erdemozcan5435 Lucky for us and all minorities in Ottoman Empire we had survivors, you didn’t manage to exterminate each and every one of us as much as your genocidal ancestors tried (after taxing minorities, forced marches & all other kinds of tactics your German Nazi friends copied from you). Greeks have solid proof of the inventions of many of these recipes! Even if you renamed dishes in Turkish during the Ottoman occupation it doesn’t make rhem Turkish in origin at all! Your nomad ancestors borrowed and learned how to cook from native Greeks, Assyrians, Armenians and Persians! ☮🕊❤

[@glebolkhovsky2531]

So Gyros is basically the Greek analogy of shawarma.

[@arikanti2249]

as far as the position is concerned... 😄😄😄 .... we all do it the same way... who does it better is what it counts!!

[@glebolkhovsky2531]

@@arikanti2249 yes, of course. 😉

[@arikanti2249]

@@glebolkhovsky2531 I am so sorry about the joke. I wish I could try all the dishes that share similar technics in cooking but are so different in taste. Wish to find out the history and the influences and what the local products and local peoples' ideas offered in evolving a dish. I do not mean that it is better or worse, it is just different. When diverse ideas come together always great things come to life. I just hate when some make bitter commends on videos of other counties. My first thought goes to those in the touristic field trying to make each and every visitor happy, either by cooking or serving. It is unfair to them no matter which country they are from or they work in. Finally, greetings from Crete Greece, a place that has endogenous plants and dishes that were based on the creativity of our grandparents who lived through difficult times and had to learn to feed themselves off the rocky hard land in order to survive. So it is really stupid to me to fight over the origin of gyros or mousaka. Try 'hohlious mpoumpouristous' or 'antikristo'(which you can also meet in Mexico and this is a fascinating mystery to me). The same is with Greek 'kleftiko' which is also met in Mexico, meat baked under the ground. or various salads with a variety of different endogenous wild greens,, other boiled and other fresh or 'tsigariasta' depending on the plants.

[@erdemozcan5435]

and shawarma comes from the Turkish word “çevirme”.

[@Tztimelord]

Thank you for introducing some beautiful Turkish food.... Ooops i mean Greek😂

[@andyrockevo]

Turks learned how to cook & many other trades from the native Greeks they enslaved...With forced islamizations due to extreme taxations & devsirme practices, Turks assimilated Greeks & their knowledge that way since they were nomadic conquerors without past knowledge of ingredients native to all the Greek lands they conquered...

[@arikanti2249]

@Tztimelord 🤣🤣🤣Very funny! When ottomans conquered Κωνσταντινούπολη - Kontantinople (Istanbul as it is known today, or the Byzantine empire) all the sultans wanted to eat like the Greeks. The Greeks that had already been experimenting with ingredients and recipes coming from west to east and vice versa. The same happened BEFORE that when the Roman empire conquered the Greeks. The Elite of the Romans showed their status by how much of a Greek lifestyle they had. They had to have Greek teachers for their kids, had to have the best Greek cuisine and be the closest to a Greek lifestyle as possible. Let's not forget that even BEFORE that, the empire of Alexander the Great used to transferred products from west to east and vice versa. Theophrastus (Θεόφραστος 371-287 BC) in his book: "The history of plants", was one of the many Greek scientists and philosophers that first described all these products. Their ORIGIN, their taste, their use and their properties. TURKS WERE NOT EVEN A THING BACK THEN. Greeks always shared knowledge. Turks always ravaged, renamed and presented everything as their own. As a Greek I respect any older civilization but the Turks obviously have no say in this. Please make your own research. (For Greek viewers, please feel free to copy and paste).

[@LuvRbxx]

Koulori is simit Mousakka is Musakka Dolmades is Dolma they are not Greek food because they are under our control for 400 years they think they did it

[@user-fq9zh7tb6u]

Οι Τούρκοι μπορείτε να είστε υπερήφανοι μόνο για τον παστουρμά. Ωμό κρέας με μπαχαρικά που το έβαζαν οι πολεμιστές προγονοί σας (Σελτζούκοι Τούρκοι και Οθωμανοί Τούρκοι) κάτω από τη σέλα του αλόγου και με το βάρος του αναβάτη έφευγαν τα υγρά. Από τα βάθη της Ασίας ήρθατε και κατακτήσατε πολιτισμένους ανθρώπους. Μη λες λοιπόν τι σας έκλεψαν οι Έλληνες, αλλά τι μάθατε εσείς από εμάς.

[@maximhollandnederlandthene7640]

Too much Touristic, Not interested to go eat 24/7 Not much social contact as expected.

[@user-ij3wk9hj6r]

90% of the food and drinks you see in this video are made by imitating Turkish food.

[@kalliaspapaioannou7045]

Well by giving names to various things doesn't make them yours. None of the foods above has anything to do with copies, its actually the other way around. For instance Moussaka has an Arabic name because the Arabs actually made first the minced meat but its a dish known from scripts back in Byzantine empire just instead of tomatoes had garum sauce and instead of besamel had cream and cheese. Also as it mentioned to the video "ntolmades" have a Turkish name but they were also known since the Hellenistic times more than 1000 years before the Turks appear in this area. Also Tzatziki its clearly Greek food, there are some similar dips or appetizers yogurt based but they 're just not the same. The Souvlaki and Gyros seem like are common in the area from middle east to Balkans but the Greek version its the only with pork meat and certain herbs and spices. Not to mention the sea food and fish which has nothing to do with the Turkish culture. And yes we share many other dishes together with many other people who all lived for few centuries under Ottoman empire and don't forget a Turkish elite was ruling but even though the Muslims were the majority the actual Turks were just a minority.

[@user-xh9rz7rf8l]

It was the Greeks of Constantinople, Smyrna and other Greek cities in Asia Minor who taught you to eat and cook, because when you came from Mongolia you did not have these practices. However, you became good students.

[@niemand69]

I was just wondering: How come a Turkish troll didn’t interfere so far, in a Greece themed topic? Until I saw this comment. Bro, you have serious issues there. Get a life

[@coolguyt657]

100% of your land is Greek, Armenian, and Kurdish land!!! Not to mention all of the churches you Turks stole and converted into mosques or burned them down…

[@athenarockabilly6245]

There goes the mongoloid trying to teach a Greek history shut up and sit down