Athens: God's Cafe, Run by St. George & Hannah's Boyfriends

Literally, on our first walk away from the apartment, we passed by this restaurant. One of the gentlemen greeted us and we promised to come back for a meal. Then we proceeded to eat EVERY meal here for three days (not counting when we just ate ice cream for dinner)...then again coming back from Mykonos on our way to the cruise...then again returning from the cruise on the way to the airport.

It's called "God's Restaurant," and we had a lot of fun saying things like "Okay, it's time to go to God."  Or Jack would yell, "My God this is delicious!" and feel like he had gotten away with something.  Apparently, it's been on "Lonely Planet" but we need to go in search of that episode.

This is Saint George, the owner.  He looked much like Einstein, and we all loved him.

This is Iannous, who flirted relentlessly with Hannah and brought John very large mugs of cold Mythos beer.

This is the table that we sat at...on all five of our visits.

This is heaven: stuffed vine (grape) leaves in avgolemono (egg/lemon) sauce...No, not Mexican but Greek.  We're going to try to learn to make this.

This is mild cheese-stuffed pastry with black sesame and honey, served as an appetizer.

This is "Rustic" salad--a thick piece of wheat bread with tomato, feta, olives, and vinaigrette.

 Greek salad.

Fresh cooked beets with sliced raw garlic and drizzled with vinaigrette.

The kids actually got rather immune to me yelling "FOOD PORN!" and yanking out my camera.