Where to Eat, Drink, Stay and Shop in Athens

Natural wine bars, tailored shirts, tarama and a beautiful AirBnB.

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The Athens renaissance era is now. It’s relatively affordable to live there, and so there’s an experimental nature to the city at the moment, young people trying things and opening concepts in little spaces (something Sydney does not have, in my opinion, it’s just too expensive to risk experimenting). I feel it competes with Paris 10 years ago, a little mysterious and not trying too hard. If you’re here for where to find the tarama and tzatziki, the pasta, the curated vintage, the natural wine, the coffee and the art, well, I got you. Firstly, the dreamiest AirBnB…