Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Thessaloniki from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Thessaloniki
These are the places where the cellar matters as much as the kitchen, with list depth and service shaping the meal.
Classico Bistro Moderne in Waterfront/Themistokli Sofouli is a modern Greek bistro with an exceptional wine programme and an extensive cellar of 320+ labels selected by certified sommeliers. The room runs all day, from brunch through lunch and dinner, with a la carte and small plates. It holds Star Wine List (2026) recognition.
Palia Athina in Kato Toumba is a traditional Greek steakhouse in a tavern setting, with grilled premium beef cuts and an extensive Greek wine selection. Service is a la carte, and the restaurant holds Star Wine List (2026) recognition.
Iberico Restaurant in Western Thessaloniki is a meat specialist with premium Iberico cuts and creative meat-forward cooking. The wine programme has an extensive list and sommelier-led service, and the restaurant holds Star Wine List (2026) recognition. The menu is a la carte and small plates.
These venues cover cocktails, spritzes, and lighter food, with wine appearing inside a broader drinking culture.
Methi Wine Bar in Kalamaria has a wine list with over 500 labels, rare pours via Coravin, and a list weighted toward Greek producers. Sharing-style dishes include beef carpaccio. The bar pours natural wine and conventional wine, and it holds Star Wine List (2026) recognition.
Monmarti Wine Bar in Kalamaria is an all-day wine bar with an exceptional programme and a 250-label list selected by owner Sakis Tassiou. The bar offers an outstanding Greek wine selection with food pairings and eclectic cuisine. It holds Star Wine List (2026) recognition and sits in a quieter, residential tier of Thessaloniki dining.
Afesou in Thessaloniki city center is a spritzeria with an aperitivo focus on spritzes, drinks, and light bites. The restaurant serves a la carte and small plates, and the drinks include craft cocktails. Drinks, small plates, and the timing of the evening sit alongside formal courses in this aperitivo bar-restaurant format.
Serious wine lists in our Thessaloniki guide sit in Kalamaria, Waterfront/Themistokli Sofouli, Kato Toumba, Western Thessaloniki, Nea Paralia, and Port / Western Thessaloniki. Kalamaria holds Methi Wine Bar and Monmarti Wine Bar. Classico Bistro Moderne is in Waterfront/Themistokli Sofouli, Palia Athina is in Kato Toumba, Iberico Restaurant is in Western Thessaloniki, AVENUE - Modern Cuisine is in Nea Paralia, and CHAN Restaurant & Bar is in Port / Western Thessaloniki.
There are no Michelin-starred restaurants in our Thessaloniki guide. Methi Wine Bar and Monmarti Wine Bar in Kalamaria hold Star Wine List (2026) recognition. Methi serves sharing-style dishes, and Monmarti offers Greek wines with food pairings.
Classico Bistro Moderne and Monmarti Wine Bar carry exceptional wine programmes in our Thessaloniki guide. Methi Wine Bar in Kalamaria lists over 500 labels on a wine programme. Classico Bistro Moderne in Waterfront/Themistokli Sofouli has 320+ labels selected by certified sommeliers. Monmarti Wine Bar in Kalamaria has a 250-label list selected by owner Sakis Tassiou.
Classico Bistro Moderne in Waterfront/Themistokli Sofouli, Palia Athina in Kato Toumba, and Iberico Restaurant in Western Thessaloniki hold Star Wine List (2026) recognition. Methi Wine Bar in Kalamaria, AVENUE - Modern Cuisine in Nea Paralia, and Monmarti Wine Bar in Kalamaria hold the same Star Wine List (2026) recognition.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Classico Bistro Moderne has operated on Themistokli Sofouli since February 2020, running an all-day format that moves from brunch through lunch and dinner. The kitchen works within a bistro moderne register, a mode of cooking that has gained traction in Thessaloniki as the city's dining scene sharpens its focus on sourced ingredients and considered technique. For visitors mapping the city's better mid-tier tables, it belongs on the list.
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A newer addition to the Thessaloniki dining scene from the brothers behind two of the city's most established seafood restaurants, Iberico brings a different register to a proven track record. The address sits in the Kotta Roulia neighbourhood, and the project carries the credibility of operators who have already demonstrated they can build restaurants that last. Expect a cosy, considered space rather than a high-volume production.
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In the Toumba neighbourhood of Thessaloniki, Palia Athina operates as a textbook example of the old-school Greek tavern format: long tables, traditional dishes, and a pace set by the meal rather than the clock. It sits within a city whose tavern culture predates the modern restaurant category by generations, making it a reference point for anyone tracing how Greeks have historically eaten together.
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Aeras sits in Thessaloniki’s brunch-and-Mediterranean lane, a category shaped less by ceremony than by olive oil, bread, eggs, herbs, and produce handled with restraint. Its appeal is clearest for diners who want the city’s daytime eating culture rather than a formal tasting-menu frame.
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Afesou brings the aperitivo bar-restaurant format into Thessaloniki’s contemporary dining conversation, where drinks, small plates, and the timing of the evening matter as much as formal courses. Its appeal sits in the Mediterranean logic of sourcing and sharing: seasonal produce, seafood culture, and the city’s habit of turning a pre-dinner drink into a longer table.
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Avenue 48 belongs to Thessaloniki’s all-day dining culture, where long lunches, late dinners, and café rhythms often share the same room. Its western-side address places it away from the city’s postcard waterfront circuit, making it more useful for readers tracking how contemporary casual restaurants serve the city beyond the historic centre.
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CHAN Restaurant & Bar belongs to Thessaloniki’s hotel-dining tier, where the city’s port-side geography and northern Greek pantry matter more than theatrical fine-dining language. The useful lens here is sourcing: Macedonia’s vegetables, seafood from the Thermaic Gulf, and cross-Balkan influences define how serious kitchens in the city build identity.
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ON Residence occupies a restored belle époque mansion on Thessaloniki's waterfront promenade, Leoforos Nikis. The boutique hotel draws its name from the initials of the historic building's celebrated original owner, weaving the city's layered social history into each room. For travellers seeking a property with genuine architectural character in northern Greece's most culturally dense city, this is a considered address.
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Set behind a commanding white façade on Komninon Street, The Excelsior Hotel positions itself in the cultural core of Thessaloniki, within walking distance of the seafront and the city's café-lined squares. The interior trades the city's Byzantine density for a chic, modern register, offering a quieter anchor point for travellers moving through one of northern Greece's most historically layered cities.
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Carrying a 2025 Michelin Selected distinction, 72 AD occupies a storied address on Agiou Dimitriou in the heart of Thessaloniki. The property sits within a city that prizes its layered Byzantine and Ottoman heritage, and the hotel positions itself at the intersection of that history and considered hospitality. For travellers who want a grounded base in one of northern Greece's most culturally dense cities, 72 AD offers a clear point of entry.
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Antigon Urban Chic Hotel is squarely focused on the present. This is, as the name suggests, an utterly modern boutique hotel of the high-design variety; its 38 rooms and suites are decked out in handsome grays and neutrals, and the rooftop champagne bar is a delight. Its most distinctive attribute, however, is where the past intrudes: the hotel’s bar/restaurant is built on a glass floor suspended above a Roman-era archaeological site.
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Colors Urban Hotel Thessaloniki sits on Tsimiski, the city's primary commercial spine, and carries a 2025 MICHELIN Selected distinction that places it among a small cohort of Thessaloniki hotels recognized for consistent quality. The property occupies an address where the city's Byzantine and Ottoman layering is immediately walkable, making it a practical base for travelers whose itinerary extends well beyond the room itself.
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Carrying Michelin Selected status in 2025, Monasty Thessaloniki, Autograph Collection occupies a converted historic building on Vasileos Irakleiou Street in the city's dense commercial and cultural core. The property sits within Marriott's design-led Autograph Collection, which positions it alongside independent-minded hotels rather than standardised chain product. For travellers treating Thessaloniki as a serious destination, it anchors a stay in the neighbourhood closest to the waterfront promenade and Byzantine monuments.
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Teight Hotel occupies a considered address at 8 Mitropolitou Iosif Street in central Thessaloniki, placing guests within reach of the city's Byzantine monuments, waterfront promenade, and dense neighbourhood dining scene.
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The Met Hotel occupies a deliberate counterpoint to Thessaloniki's layered architectural inheritance, trading Byzantine ornament for monochrome restraint in spaces that are both imaginative and functional. On 26th October Street, it places guests within close reach of the city's waterfront promenade, Roman forum, and the dense restaurant corridor running through the Ladadika district. For travellers who want design clarity over heritage pastiche, this address delivers.
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Selected by the Michelin guide for 2025, The Modernist Thessaloniki sits on Ermou in the heart of Greece's second city, representing the sharper end of Thessaloniki's boutique hotel scene. The property's design-led approach places it alongside a small cohort of urban properties that have repositioned the city's accommodation offer away from legacy business hotels toward something more considered.
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A Michelin Selected hotel on Dodekanisou Street, Vanoro occupies a carefully restored building in Thessaloniki's city centre, placing it within a small cohort of design-conscious urban addresses that treat architectural continuity as a selling point. For travellers drawn to Greece's second city by its Byzantine layers and contemporary food culture, it offers a considered base with the credibility of Michelin's 2025 hotel selection behind it.
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City Hotel sits on Komninon 11 in central Thessaloniki, placing guests within walking distance of the city's Byzantine monuments, waterfront promenade, and the covered market at Modiano. For travellers who want a base that reflects the character of northern Greece rather than a generic international footprint, the address alone argues a case. Contact the property directly to confirm current rates and availability.
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Hipsters Hotel belongs to Thessaloniki’s smaller urban-hotel conversation, where the appeal depends less on resort theatre and more on how a property fits the city’s dense, design-conscious centre. With for awards, price, rooms, or booking channels, it should be treated as a research-first stay: compare its location, room category, and current rates against the city’s better-documented boutique and international options before committing.
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Luxury White Tower Suites sits in Thessaloniki, a city where hotel stays are often shaped as much by seafront walks, café culture, and late dining rhythms as by room categories.
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Ranked #393 in the Top 500 Bars list for 2025, Gorilla operates within Thessaloniki's ambitious cocktail tier, a city whose bar scene has moved well beyond Balkan backwater status into genuine European recognition. Located on Veroias 3 in the city centre, the bar signals craft focus and technical program depth in a market that rewards exactly that.
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On Leoforos Megalou Alexandrou, one of Thessaloniki's main arteries, AVENUE - Modern Cuisine has earned a Star Wine List recognition for 2026, signalling a drinks programme that operates above the city's casual wine-bar tier. The kitchen pursues a modern approach, and the list behind it is curated with the same seriousness. Worth knowing before you go.
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A Kalamaria institution since its 2012 pivot from wine retail to bistro format, Methi operates as the kind of neighbourhood wine bar that eastern Thessaloniki returns to week after week. The sharing-focused format draws regulars who treat the room as an extension of their own table, with a list weighted toward Greek producers and a floor staff that knows the difference between a guided pour and a hard sell.
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An all-day wine bar in Kalamaria, Thessaloniki, Monmarti opens at 10 AM and builds its identity around a 250-label wine list selected by owner Sakis Tassiou. The format sits between neighbourhood wine shop and full-service restaurant, serving from breakfast through to late evening. It belongs to a quieter, residential tier of Thessaloniki dining that rewards those who look beyond the waterfront.
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At Karipi 3, Purovoku Project operates at the intersection of sustainability, community, and seasonal bartending that defines Thessaloniki's more considered drinking culture. The bar takes a holistic approach to cocktails, treating sourcing and creativity as equal disciplines. It sits in a city increasingly serious about what goes into a glass and why.
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The winery sits within a northern Greek wine scene that increasingly draws attention for its indigenous varieties and proximity to the Axios delta's distinct terroir. For visitors orienting around Greek wine production, Malamatina represents a documented prestige tier within the Thessaloniki cluster.
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The focus is educational, with guided tastings in English or Greek and a portfolio framed by Central Macedonia varieties including Xinomavro, Assyrtiko, and Malagouzia.
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Metochi Mylopotamos is a monastic Mount Athos wine property tied to the Monastery of Megisti Lavra, with vineyard cultivation traced to 973 AD. Its appeal is terroir and continuity: organic Athonite wines from a small, rocky, sea-facing estate shaped by olive groves, forest, and monastic stewardship rather than contemporary cellar theatrics.
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