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The Hani Restaurant: Come on In

  • September 26, 2007
  • Rated 4 of 5 by Carmen from Fairfax, Virginia
The Hani Restaurant: Come on In

Most of the restaurants in the Plaka district’s pedestrian areas spend the majority of their energies not into cooking, but into tempting you into their establishment. I’d been told to avoid these if I wanted good food, but after several hours of walking in the heat, I didn’t really care and I just wanted to sit down. We got lucky, because the host that tempted to weary travelers into his restaurant did us a favor.

There are three eating options: the street tables outside, air-conditioned dining room, and then a garden seating area. We chose the air-conditioning, but we were given a window seat so we could still enjoy the ambiance and the people watching but still get the a/c benefits.

I wanted chicken, and the roast chicken special for 8 euros looked tempting (mostly because it came with roasted potatoes, which I think are the things that Greeks do best.) My guy ordered spaghetti with beef. Now, I was thinking it would be spaghetti with meat sauce. Nope, it was spaghetti with beef roast, for around 9 euros. When the plates arrived, I was mostly disappointed, because the roast chicken was entirely dark meat pieces, and I’m a white-meat kind of girl. But lucky for me, my guy loves dark meat chicken, and his spaghetti and beef looked really tasty, so a quick switch solved all our problems.

I don’t know if we were just really tired and really hungry, but this is probably one of the best meals we had during our Athens stay. I know that the food wasn’t Greek in nature, but it was delicious, and we saved our Greek tasting for when we weren’t so hungry.

This restaurant is on Adrianiou Street in the Plaka. They’ll use the same aggressive marketing techniques to get you in, but once you’re in, you’ll be well-fed.

From journal Greece Is the Word: Part 1 - Athens

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