The rich culinary traditions of Greece influence Samothraki’s gastronomy. The island’s cuisine features a variety of fresh and locally sourced ingredients, such as the freshest fishes, goat, honey, cheese, bread, pastries, and vegetables. Local gastronomy and products will capture all your senses.
Discover the local cuisine
Experience the local cuisine of Samothraki and its divine flavours. Great Gods travel agency will assist you in discovering the local cuisine caring for you lunch or dinner.
Food is one of the things you will remember of Samothraki the most. Simple dishes, made out of local ingredients that are very tasteful. They add to your eydaimonia and well-being. Here are some typical local dishes you will enjoy in Samothraki:
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- Katsikaki: roasted goat typically stuffed with rice and its offal; the most traditional and festive dish usually served during the feasts of Eastern Sunday and the Assumption of Virgin Mary. You will find katsikaki served in many variations all year long.
- Gorgovrasto: shepherds’ traditional and festive food which consists of cooked goat and rice on an open fire
- Sougla: pieces of usually home raised pork, roasted on coals of an open fire
- Homemade pies with different ingredients like feta cheese, wild editable plants, pumpkin, trahana, minced meat, etc.
- Tsigaristi fasolada: cooked white beans refried with other vegetables
- Manti: local dumpling or ravioli stuffed with spiced meat mixture
- Yaprakia: cooked rice with many aromatic herbs wrapped up in vine leaves
- Flomaria: local noodles of Samothraki
- Louloudia: zucchini blossoms stuffed with rice
- Fresh grilled fish from the Thracian or the Aegean Sea, best to be accompanied by cooked wild editable plants (horta)
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Deserts
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- “Praousti” for dessert, a delicious golden fruit grown for centuries in Samothraki. There are many similar desserts made from pumpkin, figs, watermelon etc. Best to accompany with yoghurt.
- Other local desserts are haslamas (local traditional sort of halva), galatopita with honey and the sweet baklava (the most festive pastry in Samothraki).
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Local products
The honey of Samothraki
The honey of Samothraki is one of the best worldwide (proven scientifically). Try the bitter one (pikromelo). A great super food made in Samothraki! Samothracians use honey in both sweet and savoury dishes, and you may find it drizzled over desserts or paired with cheese.
The local beer Fonias
Accompany your delicious dishes with the local beer Fonias (lager or dark), wine or liquors (Ouzo or Tsipouro).
Bread and pastries
The bread and pastries, especially the Trachanopita (frumenty pie), cooked from the traditional Antoniou wood oven in Chora are delicious.
Greek coffee
Lunch and dinner are only completed after a Greek coffee (dark or blond) called Ellinikos in one of the many traditional Kafeneion (local coffee shop) in Samothraki.
Where to eat?
When visiting Samothraki, exploring the local tavernas and restaurants is a great way to savour the island’s authentic flavours and experience the warmth of Greek hospitality.
You will not encounter fancy restaurants on Samothraki but rather family owned tavernas and coffee shops. Here is where you will find the most traditional dishes:
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- Stavroula, a coffee bar in Lakoma main square
- O Vrachos (The Rock) in Profitis Ilias: one of the best tavernas on the island and a favourite of the locals. It is the place to taste the roasted Katsikaki and Sougla (or Kontosouvli).
- Panagia Kremniotissa Taverna at Panagia Kremniotissa Church: eat goats dish at its best with a wonderful sunset in the back.
- Hontros at the entrance of Chora opposite of “Fardys Cultural Centre”
- Kesmes in Chora, close to the Folklore Museum
- Taverna Karydies in Ano Meria
- Aleka’s Kafeneion at Chora’s main square (next to Lefkos Pyrgos patisserie) for Greek coffee, ouzo or tsipouro with meze (appetizers)
- Aggeliki for a selection of traditional handmade Samothraki pastries in Kamariotissa.
- Panagiotis Papanikolaou coffee in Makrilies village: Taste the locally produced cheese, feta and yoghurt in the awarded factory.
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Enjoy Samothraki gastronomy and live like a Great God!
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