Discover Thessaloniki's food culture with a local chef, exploring its historic market, tasting seasonal Greek specialities and finishing with a restaurant lunch shaped by the day's freshest ingredients.
Taste authentic Greek specialities, olive oils, honey, local products and drinks, then sit down for a proper Greek lunch at a carefully selected local restaurant featuring seasonal dishes prepared by local chefs where the menu changes daily with the season and the day's best local ingredients.

We'll taste our way through local food shops and the historic market, discovering Greek cheeses, cured meats, olives, exceptional olive oils, honey, breads, seasonal produce, herbs, spices and regional specialities. You'll learn not only what you're tasting, but how these ingredients are used in Greek kitchens and why seasonality is so important to Greek cuisine.

The experience continues with a sit-down lunch at one of Thessaloniki's carefully selected independent restaurants. These are places where the daily menu is driven by the market and the season rather than a standard tourist menu. Depending on the day, lunch might include dishes such as flame-seared local fish with wild garlic, prawn-stuffed cabbage rolls with avgolemono, grilled cuttlefish with fava, seasonal greens with Greek cheese and tahini, or other contemporary interpretations of traditional Greek flavours.

Menus and tastings change according to the season and the day's best ingredients. This means that there is no rigid menu to follow — instead, you experience Thessaloniki as we would eat it ourselves: according to what is fresh, local and at its best that day!