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“Pleasant food but service could be improved”
Review of The Athenian House

The Athenian House
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Ranked #17 of 64 Restaurants in Imerovigli
Certificate of Excellence
Price range: ₱5,424 - ₱10,848
Description: The Athenian House promises an amazing gastronomic experience, on one of the most breathtaking sunset spots on Santorini Caldera. In 2025, after nine very successful seasons, the restaurant celebrates its’ 10th year anniversary and continues its multi-awarded journey, with dishes created by the famous TV celebrity Greek chef Dimitris Skarmoutsos. Traditional Greek recipes are reinvented, sun, salt and mediterranean ingredients mingle into a combination of exquisite tastes and flavors. The menu is supremely complemented by signature cocktails and vintage Greek wines. Selected wine flights offer an amazing wine tasting experience for those who cherish an original wine tour around the country. The restaurant currently owns one of the largest vintage collections of Santorini wines, with rare bottles of assyrtico, aidani or mavrotragano from the most renown wineries on the island.
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Description: The Athenian House promises an amazing gastronomic experience, on one of the most breathtaking sunset spots on Santorini Caldera. In 2025, after nine very successful seasons, the restaurant celebrates its’ 10th year anniversary and continues its multi-awarded journey, with dishes created by the famous TV celebrity Greek chef Dimitris Skarmoutsos. Traditional Greek recipes are reinvented, sun, salt and mediterranean ingredients mingle into a combination of exquisite tastes and flavors. The menu is supremely complemented by signature cocktails and vintage Greek wines. Selected wine flights offer an amazing wine tasting experience for those who cherish an original wine tour around the country. The restaurant currently owns one of the largest vintage collections of Santorini wines, with rare bottles of assyrtico, aidani or mavrotragano from the most renown wineries on the island.
Reviewed September 13, 2020

We tried the 'favourites' set menu for dinner. The Athenian House has an excellent location and lovely menu. A lovely place to watch the sunset. We enjoyed all of the courses on the menu so have no complaints in this regard but felt that the service was a little cold. The manager spoke to guests and he was delightful and very chatty but we felt the servers were not particularly personable and were quite slow to respond to requests e.g. drinks orders and request for bill.

Date of visit: September 2020
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Thank Lily S
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Reviewed September 11, 2020 via mobile

During our holiday to Santorini, it was rather hard to find good quality food at acceptable prices. We were recommended The Athenian House which has a fantastic setting for sunset views, and decided to give one of its two fine-dining set menus (five courses for €85/ seven for €120) a go. We are prepared to pay for very good food, but the food and service provided at The Athenian House simply is not worth the money.
The waiting staff were all very standard waiting staff, not particularly friendly, and completely unaware of what fine dining service should amount to. Bread was served without any butter or olive oil (which was provided when requested). Wines and waters were rarely topped up. The meal felt entirely rushed, as if the food was just being plated and sent out on a conveyor belt.
As to the food itself, it wasn’t all bad, the Greek Salad was very nice, the Fava Bean starter has some good flavours, and the Shrimp Linguini was surprisingly fragrant - but nothing was standout. And the other dishes I had, and those my partner chose, were disappointing, uninspired, and in some case really quite odd - the Baklava dessert (at the point where some redemption could be returned) has been bastardised into some deconstructed form involving peanut butter and chocolate spread and not in a good way... The cheapest bottle of wine on the menu is also a princely €47. Now whilst this wouldn’t be out of keeping with the food prices, the food quality just didn’t marry-up with the food prices and so the entire evening felt like an organised shake-down.
Whilst there were some good plates, in the main this is going to disappoint, it seems there is an inexperienced kitchen and staff body, playing at fine dining.

Date of visit: September 2020
2  Thank Youngishwildandfree
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Reviewed September 6, 2020

Where do I start, the view is incredible - especially if you book a table at sunset. The staff were so friendly And knowledgable and it was such a nice touch that the owner came round and personally chatted with everyone. They also cater extremely well for food intolerances / vegans. It‘a rare that as a vegan you have options of food but that was the case here. I can’t recommend this restaurant more, everything was perfect and really reasonably priced for what you get.

Date of visit: September 2020
3  Thank Hsnwjehejeje
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Reviewed September 4, 2020

Despite being difficult with food, I couldn't resist to all those delicacies. Very professional staff, extremely cautious and following strictly all the covid measures. They even had disposable menus. All the dishes were so delicious and the atmosphere was simply amazing. Definitely worth paying a visit!

Date of visit: September 2020
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2  Thank Nancy M
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Reviewed September 3, 2020

Beautiful location, fantastic view, excellent service, friendly and sophisticated staff, excellent food, a fantastic cellar with excellent wines (mainly Santorini assyrtiko)

Date of visit: July 2020
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3  Thank ALERO5
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