Athens: Souvlaki & Wine Tasting Dinner Tour, Groups to 8

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The Sound of Syntagma Square at Night: Where Athens Eats

You meet your guide at Syntagma Square and walk to Agias Irinis for souvlaki, then taste four Greek wines with cheese at a wine bar, return to Syntagma for a full dinner with your choice of main course and traditional spirits, and finish with gelato. The whole evening is planned around the restaurants and bars themselves, not around moving you through them quickly.

Step-by-step itinerary

Athens evening food and wine tour

Meet guide in Syntagma neighborhood
Walk to Agias Irinis Square
Taste souvlaki with various options
Walk to wine tasting location
Savor four Greek wines with cheeses
Return to Syntagma for full dinner
Enjoy appetizers, main course, and salad
Drink traditional Greek spirits
Have unique Greek gelato dessert

The Experience

The smell hits you first when you step into Agias Irinis Square after dark — charcoal and meat and the warmth of a pita press. Your guide is already there, waiting at Syntagma, and within minutes you're walking into the kind of neighborhood corner that doesn't make it into guidebooks. This is where the Athens evening food tour starts: not with a speech about Greek history, but with a choice. Souvlaki, your way — meat, chicken, vegetarian, whatever you want — wrapped in warm pita and handed to you still steaming. You eat it standing up, the way locals do, and it tastes nothing like the tourist version you might have tried elsewhere.

After souvlaki comes the wine bar, a short walk back toward Syntagma, where you sit down for the first time and taste four different Greek wine varieties paired with fine cheeses. This is the part that changes how you think about Greek wine — not the big names everyone knows, but the indigenous varieties that grow in regions most travelers never reach. Your guide talks through each one without the pretension, and you realize you're tasting something specific to this country, this soil. The wine tasting is built into the evening, not tacked on as an afterthought, which is why it actually sticks with you.

Then comes the main event: dinner at a top-rated Greek restaurant back in Syntagma, where you order a main course of your choice and it arrives with appetizers and the kind of Greek salad that tastes like it matters. The restaurant is the kind of place where the owner knows the guide, and that matters — you're not in a room full of tour groups, you're in a room where people actually eat. Traditional Greek spirits come with the meal, and the whole thing unfolds at a pace that lets you breathe between courses, not rush through them. If you're vegetarian, they've already planned for that; just mention it when you book.

Gelato closes the night, back in Syntagma, a Greek flavor you won't find everywhere else. By then you've walked maybe three kilometers total, tasted five different things, drunk four wines, and eaten a full dinner — all without once having to figure out where to go next or what to order. The group stays under eight people, which means your guide actually knows your name and whether you prefer white or red.

What’s included

Your evening includes all taxes and VAT, visits to local eateries and an excellent wine bar, wine tasting of four different Greek varieties paired with cheese, souvlaki at Agias Irinis Square, a full dinner with appetizers and Greek salad at a top-rated restaurant in Syntagma, traditional Greek spirits, gelato, and the services of a foodie guide who knows the neighborhood and the restaurants by name. Vegetarian substitutions are available at all stops if requested at booking.

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Is this one for you?Book this if you want to eat the way Athenians do after dark without spending your evening figuring out which restaurant to choose or what to order — the guide and the restaurants handle that, leaving you free to taste and talk.