Restaurants | Rhodes Island Greece.

Good food and drink are among the many attractions of a holiday in Rhodes. The local cuisine is the result of the action of Greek imagination throughout the years from Agent and modern Greek History. The most characteristically Greek elements are the use of olive oil, tomatoes, onions, garlic and a variety of herbs and spices. 

Traditional cuisine in creative evolution, famous fish restaurants, atmospheric places on idyllic historic spots, multiethnic dishes and authentic village tavernas. In constant rise, the gastronomic scene of Rhodes offers an endless variety of delicious proposals for every taste and budget. 

Some of the restaurants of Rhodes are well known abroad and are consider on of the best anywhere in Greece, compining imaginative, creative recipes with superb technique, and using the very highest of raw ingredients. The last years, also gourmet restaurants in the island's best hotels represent a very important part of the gastronomic scene.

 

High quality multiethnic cuisine is also abailable inside the town of Rhodes. Everywhere in Rhodes in any place, village or area you will find lovely small restaurants with local cuisine, seafood dishes, homemade dishes mezedes etc. The locals are especially fond of fish and all the other types of seafood, bt they make sure it has been freshly caught. Fresh fish is the most expensive type of food to be had, and is sold by weight.

 

The cuisine of a place feeds its memories. Therefore we thought it appropriate to say few words about the history of the Greek cuisine. Its origins can be clrearly traced to the Byzantine age and its evolution took place through the years among the Greeks of Asia Minor and in Constantinople, from where we have inherited the so called Politiki Kouzina. Lachanodolmades for example was a common plate on the Byzantine table.

Greek food is not all mousakas and souvlaki, but you will find plenty of it throughout Rhodes.

Finally the word yiasou (yiamas) in Greek means "to your health" and is the toast made when glasses are clinked.