Guide of Santorini, Greece

Santorini Eating And Drinking, Greece

Santorini provides a varied and savory cuisine like in all the Cyclades, supplemented by some local flavorings and original island recipes.

Miniature tomatoes, beans and barley, white eggplants, zucchini, capers and mint are grown locally to accompany the inevitable lamb or rabbit and are the main ingredients in moussakà (a sort of eggplant pie), fava, bean puree, pseftokeftedes, meat, vegetable and spice balls.

Also trythe grilled fresh fish or octopus salad at the Fish Taverns. Everywhere, pseudo-traditional taverns serve Greek salad and souvlaki, skewered meat. Stands with gyros, shiskebab and pita, the bread filled with gyros meat, vegetables and tatziki, yogurt and garlic sauce, abound. Meletenia is Santorini's dessert specialty. It is a puff pastry with cheese and egg covered in mastiha, a sweet syrup.

White wine is emblematic of Santorini. The local assyrtiko grape, basket pruned as in the past to create small and well-distanced vines, provides many types of wine including a good dry white and an acclaimed sweet raisin wine, the delicious Santorini muscatel. Nykteri is an esteemed wine named after its nocturnal harvest.