Best Restaurants for Wine Lovers in Athens
The restaurants on this list are where Athens puts an exceptional wine program, a sommelier, or a major list award next to the kitchen. French technique with Greek produce, modern Mediterranean cooking, seafood, and wood-fire dishes all show up. The rooms are spread citywide, across Pangrati, Psyri, Syntagma, Vouliagmeni, Koukaki, Mikrolimano, Exarcheia, Néa Alexándia, and Psikhikón.
Pelagos in Vouliagmeni and GB Roof Garden in Syntagma hold a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence. Tudor Hall in Syntagma holds a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence as well. Spondi in Pangrati pairs an exceptional, sommelier-led list with a Michelin star. Gallina in Koukaki keeps an exceptional program with over 800 wine labels and a Michelin Plate. Hotel Grande Bretagne in Syntagma holds a World's Best Wine Lists 3-Star award, with New Mediterranean dining a la carte.
How this list is chosen: Restaurants with a Wine Spectator Restaurant Award or a deep wine list, listed alphabetically. Updated October 8, 2026.
BlueFish Vouliagmeni
Deep wine list
Positioned along the Athenian Riviera in Vouliagmeni, BlueFish is George Economides' contemporary seafood taverna operating at a register above the coastal strip's casual fish-and-chips crowd. The kitchen draws on the deep Greek tradition of market-driven seafood cookery while delivering it with modern precision. For serious fish cookery within reach of central Athens, this is the address that earns repeated mention among the city's food-focused travellers.
Botrini's
1 Michelin star · Deep wine list
A Michelin-starred address in Halandri, a northern suburb of Athens, Botrini's operates at the intersection of Greek tradition and Italian influence, shaped by the dual heritage of chef-owner Ettore Botrini. Two tasting menus trace a route between the Ionian coast and Tuscany, set inside a converted school with an open-view kitchen and a chef's table. The restaurant holds a Michelin star (2024) and ranks 227th on Opinionated About Dining's Classical in Europe list.
CTC - Urban Gastronomy
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
A Michelin-starred modern Greek table in central Athens, CTC operates Tuesday through Saturday from 7:30pm, anchored by an 11-course surprise tasting menu that reframes Greek and Mediterranean classics through the lens of Chef Alexandros Tsiotinis. Ranked among Europe's top 600 restaurants by Opinionated About Dining in 2025, it draws a committed audience to its urban terrace and softly lit dining room on Plateon Street.
Gallina
Deep wine list
Open since late 2023 a short walk from the Acropolis, Gallina brings a French bistro framework to central Athens under a Michelin-starred kitchen and has already earned consecutive Michelin Plate recognition in 2024 and 2025. The à la carte format sits at the €€€€ price tier, positioning it alongside Athens's most serious dining addresses. Book ahead, early interest from the city's food press has kept reservations moving quickly.
GB Roof Garden
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
Perched above Syntagma Square on the rooftop of the Hotel Grande Bretagne, GB Roof Garden has held a Michelin Plate for two consecutive years while keeping its Mediterranean menu accessible at the €€€ price point. The Acropolis views and central Athens address make it a natural reference point for rooftop dining in the city..
Hotel Grande Bretagne
Deep wine list
On Syntagma Square, Hotel Grande Bretagne occupies a position that is as much symbolic as geographic, the address where Athens negotiates its relationship between antiquity and contemporary ambition. Recognised with a 3-Star Accreditation by the World of Fine Wine Awards, the property anchors the capital's top tier of grand-hotel dining in a city whose restaurant scene has grown sharply more serious over the past decade.
Makris Athens
1 Michelin star · Deep wine list
At Makris Athens, the Aegean reveals its quiet grandeur through a refined lens, where pristine Greek ingredients are translated into thoughtful, contemporary compositions. The experience unfolds like a private recital—measured, poised, and deeply sensorial—within an atmosphere of sun-warmed stone, brushed brass, and twilight city views. Expect an elegant tasting journey anchored in seasonality and maritime purity, with harmonized wine pairings from Greece’s most expressive terroirs and service that anticipates your desires with discreet grace.
Pelagos
1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Among Athens-region Michelin-starred restaurants, Pelagos at Four Seasons Astir Palace in Vouliagmeni sits in a distinct tier: Italian-born Chef Luca Piscazzi applies classical French technique to Aegean ingredients, earning a Michelin star in 2024. Three tasting menus run alongside à la carte, with a sea-view terrace that makes the 25-kilometre drive from central Athens a considered part of the evening's planning.
Pharaoh
Deep wine list
Pharaoh has held the Michelin Bib Gourmand in both 2024 and 2025, a rare back-to-back recognition for a mid-price Greek kitchen operating on a near-daily rotating menu. Located on Solomou 54 in Exarchia, it drew immediate attention from Athens diners and sits clearly below the city's fine-dining tier in price while competing on ingredient quality and creative output.
Spondi
1 Michelin star · Deep wine list
Spondi holds a Michelin star and a Les Grandes Tables du Monde designation in a city where fine dining has been quietly redefining itself for over a decade. Situated in the Pangrati neighbourhood, it blends French technique with Greek produce under chef Angelos Lantos.
Tudor Hall
1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
On Syntagma Square, Hotel King George holds a position that few Athens addresses can match: directly facing the Greek Parliament, with the Acropolis as a backdrop. Carrying a 3-Star Accreditation from the World of Fine Wine & Lifestyle Awards, it occupies the upper tier of the city's historic luxury hotel set, where heritage architecture and a central location do most of the editorial work before a guest even checks in.
Varoulko Seaside
Deep wine list
Varoulko Seaside brings creative Greek seafood to the Piraeus waterfront, where Chef Lefteris Lazarou frames the catch against Aegean whites and the ambient backdrop of working harbour light. Recognised by La Liste (80.5pts in 2025) and OAD's European Casual list, it sits in Athens's mid-to-upper price tier, €€€, and opens daily from 1 pm, making it a viable lunch-to-late-evening destination on the coast.
Vassilenas
Deep wine list
One of Athens's most enduring dining addresses, Vassilenas on Vrasida 13 in the Ambelokipi district has built its reputation across generations on the kind of loyalty that only a certain style of Greek hospitality produces. The kitchen leans into tradition rather than away from it, drawing a clientele that returns not for novelty but for the assurance of consistency. A fixture in the city's serious restaurant conversation.
VERi TABLE
Deep wine list
VERi TABLE brings classical French cuisine to Neo Psichiko, one of Athens' more composed residential neighbourhoods, at a price point (€€€) that sits a tier below the city's Michelin-starred flagships. Consecutive Michelin Plates in 2024 and 2025 confirm its standing within Athens' fine-dining circuit. For Athenians seeking rigorous French technique without the spectacle of the city centre, it occupies a specific and useful position.
Planning restaurants for wine lovers in Athens
- Which restaurants on this list hold Wine Spectator awards?
- Pelagos in Vouliagmeni and GB Roof Garden in Syntagma hold a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence. Tudor Hall in Syntagma holds a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence as well.
- Which neighborhoods on this list have exceptional wine programs?
- Exceptional wine programs on this list are in Pangrati, Psyri, Néa Alexándia, Syntagma, Mikrolimano, Exarcheia, Koukaki, Psikhikón, and Vouliagmeni. Spondi and Vassilenas are in Pangrati, Makris Athens is in Psyri, and BlueFish Vouliagmeni is in Vouliagmeni. Tudor Hall, GB Roof Garden, and Hotel Grande Bretagne are in Syntagma, each with an exceptional program.
- Which of these restaurants serve a tasting menu?
- Spondi in Pangrati, Makris Athens in Psyri, Botrini's in Néa Alexándia, CTC - Urban Gastronomy in Psyri, Tudor Hall in Syntagma, Varoulko Seaside in Mikrolimano, and Vassilenas in Pangrati all serve a tasting menu. Pelagos in Vouliagmeni serves a tasting menu and prix fixe. Botrini's serves tasting menus only, and CTC - Urban Gastronomy serves an 11-course menu.