Tavernas By the Sea

 Some of our favourite places to eat.  It's far too hot during the day to eat a meal.  A cold drink and a snack is what we have most days.  A sandwich, a salad, some cold leftovers.  Cheese, olives and bread.

The the evening breezes cool the air down a little.  We hose down the flagstones, have a shower.  Mostly I cook, or K grills, but sometimes we meet friends or cousins for an evening meal.  Beside the sea.

Pizza

Looking back across the tourist bay

Askeli Beach

Eating with family in our all time favourite taverna

Right on the water.  

All our visitors have eaten here.  Mostly basic greek home cooking and bbqed fish and meat. A big plate of cold watermelon to finish off. The owner is a close friends of K's and the waiters all come over for a chat and  advise on the menu

Here we all are at the end of the meal

A table filled with half empty dishes, plates with scraps, glasses of wine, beer and water

And birthday cake

An out of town taverna

One meal we did eat in the early afternoon.  

Our table was right in front of the kitchen and waves of hot air billowed out.  Overhead fans and a seabreeze  cooled us down

Here K is talking to the owner.  His son was a conscript at Poros Navy base when K was stationed there.  K knows everyone, everywhere

Our view over the beach.

This fish taverna is not on Poros.  Its an hour or so away down the coast.  We hadn't been here for 10 years and were flabbergasted by the change.  Once upon a time there was barely a person to be seen on the beach.  The taverna was rustic, homely, and relatively cheap.

10 years on the taverna has been expanded 3 times, has a comfy couch and chairs at one end of the open deck.  Coffee is from a complex of machines and the beach below was so crowded there was hardly a space in the crush of bods. 

 

This is not a taverna but the water sports platform at Neorio beach.

Sofia's taverna at the end of Neorio beach and my happy grandaughter Poppi.  Sofia does an array of good greek cooking and grilling.  The family gathered to say farewell to cousins from out of town.  We ate dolmathes (stuffed vines leaves), grilled sardines, grilled chicken, lots and lots of tzatziki and greek salad.  The perfect way to send off well loved guests.