My favorite food is Mexican, Japanese, and Chinese but after this trip Greek food is a close runner up!
As I mentioned in my Honeymoon in Santorini post, the greek salads were the best and we are still making greek salads at home with the oregano we bought from Athens. We are starting to run out which means another trip to Greece!
Our favorite restaurant in Santorini was Melitini. The place was casual, small and delicious!
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The grilled octopus was so good- we ordered two!
And no vacation meal is complete without dessert! Baklava (Ross’ favorite) and Meltinis (the name of the restaurant). Both were delicious!
Our second favorite was the greek Natkos from Domaine Sigalas Vineyard. The cheese on the tomatoes was amazing!!
If you are in Fira, you HAVE to go to Lucky’s Souvlaki’s. THE best gyros I’ve ever had and only 2.5 euros! It’s very small, we sat at the bar, this was recommended to us by a friend. Lots of locals and tourist!
On our first night we went to Lotza in the town of Oia, we smelt the food walking by and had to check it out! My nose was correct, the food was great and views were also very nice!
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The rice with mixed seafood was so good! It doesn’t sound or look the best but it was delicious! We saw the people next to us get it and it smelled amazing!
We got cold from watching the sunset so we also got the soup of the day, it was a fish soup that day and was very good. So good we forgot to take a photo before digging in, I must have been hangry- per usual.
The second night we got dinner in the town of Ammoudi Bay, there were so many restaurants to choose from down by the water.
We ended up at Sunset Ammoudi because there were lots of celebrity photos in the restaurant and we thought if it’s good enough for famous foods, it’s probably good enough for us!
The food was decent, maybe we ordered the wrong things because the food was a bit more expensive than the other dinners we had. We met some people later that said the food at Ammoudi Fish Tavern was really good, so maybe check that out instead?
The only way to get down to this area is to drive or take a million stairs down from Oia, we drove down. The area feels very touristy so maybe just catch the sunset and a late dinner elsewhere?
After the sailing tour, we decided to get a snack at the gyro place in Oia called Pitogyros. It definitely wasn’t as good as Lucky’s and a couple euros more expensive! But Ross did get to try some Crazy Donkey beer with another couple we met on the sail!
The breakfast at our hotel Andronis Luxury Suites was incredible, we felt so lucky and grateful every morning! If you need help on picking a hotel, check out our Where to Stay in Santorini post. We love trying local food and new cuisines but it’s not about what you eat but who you eat with!
Let us know if you have any favorite Santorini restaurants that we can add to this list! To read about what we did in Santorini, check out our Honeymoon in Santorini post.
XOXO,
Nina & Ross
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