Greek cuisine is famous to be healthy and tasteful.

Based on the olive oil, a lot of vegetables, cheese and red or white meat, it can offer you delicious and healthy dishes.

Here we offer some nice and easy recipes...
a) Baked Feta Cheese
b) Greek Salad

a) Baked Feta Cheese
You'll need a fat slice of feta cheese, oregon, tomato and a green pepper. Put the feta slice in a tinfoil and cover it with oregon and thin slices of the tomato and the pepper. Wrap them in the tinfoil and bake them in the oven for almost 10 minutes. Serve it with some olive oil on it.

b) Greek Salad

You'll need three tomatoes, two cucumbers, half an onion, one pepper, eight to ten olives, parsley and almost 30 ml olive oil. Get a deap plate and cut in it the tomatoes - in thick slices - and the cucumbers without its skins. Cut the pepper, the onion and the parsley as well. Mix them and add the olives. Put on it the slices of the feta cheese and then pour them with the olive oil all around. Your Greek Salad is ready to be served!

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As a typical big city, Athens offers to its residents and to its visitors plenty of choices for tasting international food.

At the best restaurants of Athens, such as Mr. Pil Pull (2107520658) at Thission, Spondi (2103423665) in Pangrati (where you ‘ll pay, more or less, 60 euros, apr. 75 dollars, per person for a dish, a salad for two, a bottle of wine for two) or O&B Athens All Day Restaurant (2103312950) at Psirri (there you ‘ll pay around 50 euros, apr. 63 dollars, for the same consumption) you will enjoy modern dishes of the international and greek cuisine.

You can taste ethnic food such as Chinese, Indian, Czech, Arabic, even African, in a lot of restaurants that you ‘ll find on your way in Athens.

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Fast or Junk Food is a habit that Greeks have adopted during the last decades.

The typical Greek fast food is Pita Souvlaki, a kind of bread with a souvlaki in it.

In Pita Greeks usually add tomato, potatoes, onion and tsatziki. Souvlaki kalamaki (meat in a small wooden stick) is another popular choice. In Athens you will find a lot of international fast food companies, such as McDonald’s and KFC.

However, Greeks seem to prefer the local fast food chains, such as Goody’s and Pita tou Pappou. In particular corners of the Greek capital city you may find ethnic fast food as well, such as Arabic or Chinese fast food restaurants.

If you wake up early in the morning, or go to bed late at night (after 05.00 am) it’s a good idea to taste a cheese-pie or a bougatsa (cream pie) from a bakery.

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For most people Greek food is just souvlaki, tsatziki and Greek salad. However, for Greeks and for foreigners who know, the cuisine of Greece is much more than this.

From the cheap Greek taverns to the most delicate and expensive restaurants there is a great variety of Greek dishes that will be offered to you. Greeks use a lot of olive oil in their foods and you’ll probably not be used to it, but it is really healthy and it has a delicious taste. They also use a lot of vegetables, cheese and red meta, while you can also have a lot of chicken and of course fresh fish.

If you would like to taste the everyday food of the Greeks you may visit in daytime Barba-Yiannis Restaurant at Emmanuel Benaki Str. 54 (to go there just get a taxi) or choose Yiannis at Ayiou Thoma Square near Laikon Hospital (a taxi is the best transportation solution to there, too). At both restaurants you won’t pay more than 15 euros (apr. 19 dollars) per person for a dish a salad for two and a bottle of wine for two.

If you would like to eat what tourist consider as Greek food, then you ‘ld better choose Plaka Restaurants, where in daytime or night you can enjoy your food in perfect environment. To meet the modern aspect of Greek food you may visit a delegated Greek restaurant such as Byzantino at Athens Hilton (50 euros, apr. 62 dollars per person or a dish, a salad for two and a bottle of wine for two).

Another good choice is the Kasteloriso Restaurant in Glyfada, where you can eat fresh fish by the sea almost at the same cost.

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