Kapani market

Thessaloniki Street Food

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Thessaloniki Street Food

Thessaloniki eats on its feet. The city carries a street-food culture built over centuries as a port and a crossroads, where Greek, Balkan, and Ottoman tastes met on the same pavement. Vendors sell filo pastry from marble counters, sesame rings from wheeled carts, and grilled meat wrapped in flatbread from open windows. Roasted chestnuts scent … Read more

Thessaloniki Food Tour: What to Eat and Where

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Thessaloniki Food Tour: What to Eat and Where

Thessaloniki holds the title of Greece’s food capital for concrete reasons. The city fuses recipes carried by refugees from Asia Minor, Sephardic Jewish baking, and Ottoman spice traditions into one dense street-food culture. A food tour here reads the port through its markets, bakeries, grill houses, and seafront meze tables. Travellers taste custard bougatsa at … Read more