Eating Like a Local in THESSALONIKI, GREECE 🇬🇷

Eating Like a Local in THESSALONIKI, GREECE 🇬🇷

me. So, our friend Chubt told us I asked actually for some gyros, typical local gyros, and he gave us some names here. Took the card for the electricity. Okay, let’s take the elevator. It’s already here. Look how nice is this building, guys. All new. Wow. Love it. Let’s go. Okay. Where is it? This way. All right. I a lot of noise here, guys. I think we are I told you in the old town like somehow there are old buildings here. Anyway, I charge up with the camera battery. I charge up with the phone battery because using this 4G and Google maps takes a lot of energy. Drains the battery. The same when I record this video in 4K guys, the battery drops pretty quick, you know. I love Alfa Romeo West. One of my favorite brand actually. Of course, it’s like an icon. Okay, there is a fountain there. Not so many people in this. It’s a bit hidden this road, I think. There is a nice fountain here. What do we have here? It’s like a shop. Not shop, but like a bar to drink. Independence. Okay, 700 m. We’re almost there. And I have to tell you the truth. But I didn’t really see a supermarket coming here. So I’m a bit concerned that they are far. But I mean if you are in the old town like close to the University of Teslon should be full of well there are always small shops here. Anyway, we’re going to find some shops to buy some water. Something else I already see some shops there. Shop and go. Right. This should be like a mix of Guos place and tavern. you know the Greek diver where you can order t is this Greek style you know I don’t know how to explain you very simple simple chairs simple table but super tasty food let’s see how it is I saw some photos the reviews are good on Google maps super curious to arrive and order actually hello so yeah very funny people guys very friendly people here it become green red sorry Yeah, don’t understand why it’s not synchronized actually, but uh we will take it as it comes. Guys, can someone explain me why 5 m there it was green and tell 5 m after was like uh red and I needed to wait. I never understood this thing for me should be green all the road to cross completely. You know what I mean? But yeah, I don’t I don’t know the logic of this. Look how nice is this coffee shop. I love the colors. Black and like light blue and white. Very very nice. I think it’s not actually in this one. It’s only this shop. Where is this place? Oh boy. 240 m 3 minutes. So at the end left, I guess. Anyway, it’s close to our apartment, guys. Now I know it’s an apartment. We booked an apartment, not a hotel. When I saw it on booking.com, I told you I just booked it. You know, I liked the photo and I didn’t even check if it was a hotel, if it was a apartment. Look at this building. They are pretty old. I got the feeling the city is empty, guys. I don’t know where these people go because the sea is here. Well, I guess they go to the sea in Aliriki or somewhere because the city really looks empty. We have to cross, guys. So, yeah, let’s cross and then we’re going to go there somewhere. And that there is a museum, Museum of Illusion of Tessaloniki. After we eat, I already got the plan. We’re going to go and grab if we find a bakery, open up Bugatta. You will see what it is. And then we might go in the prominad that you say in Italian, like close to the sea, guys, to see how it is to see. Pretty early anyway. It’s like 7:30 p.m. I’m still surprised that they have the same uh time zone like Romania here, but they are, you know, in the same border with Albania. The border with Albania and Albania is 1 hour back like Italy. So yeah, I’m a bit confused about this. But yeah, apparently it’s the same time zone here in like Romania. I mean for me, you think that Basa came from Romania with the colors? Looks like no yellow, blue and red. I don’t know. Remind me of Romania. Nice place. But we are going straight I guess somewhere here. Toto to everything everything amazing okay guys I think I found a place with many places here let’s look around where we can sit and eat there are a lot of locals here tourists as well so yeah let’s find the right place our dear friend Chajiti again guys is going to help us to find other places because I want to look around I don’t want to stop in one place you know I don’t want to stop in one place. I wanted to look more places. So yeah, let’s go and check out this was the name of Gerosis Aristo or something like this. I think it means the gears of Aristotle or something like that. Let’s see because I mean it’s full of ta full of gear place but tired super tired really thirsty. It’s been a long day. woke up super early, you know. So, yeah, I really want to find a place to eat, drink, eat good. Let’s go fast, guys. It’s green. And we go. I was actually looking at my videos, guys, because it changed a lot the colors between the television and um and the phone cuz the phone is HDR and the television that uh we have in the apartment is not HDR, I think. So, it changed a lot the colors. I think it’s in the square that we went before. What is this place? It’s like uh several restaurants here, but it’s like covered. Wow. Agora. Agora is like a Greek term. I think an antique Greek term meaning that u I think it means square or something. I have to check. But it’s like the old term for square if I remember good. Uh is where the people used to go and decide about politics if you know what I mean. Like in the main square if I remember good. Agora. Mia. They got full this place here. Oh, it’s like hillster. Look, there are the houses. That’s the square where we went and it’s fy square now. Wow. People are going out because it’s summer. It’s a summer night. Okay, let’s look now. Where is this place, guys? I think it’s somewhere there. What do you think, guys? Look how many sauces they have. Really nice. What do you think? I wish I took the decision to go directly to the taiver. So, we’re going to sit there. You know what the tavern is? Anyway, it’s a place where you see this a restaurant, a Greek restaurant. So, yeah, took the decision to go there directly. We’re going to go and buy now some water because I’m super thirsty from the same guy. No, the guy is not here anymore. The same guy who gave us the Wi-Fi. Before we go to the tava, let me just check the last gear place here. Let’s see how it looks. You know, if uh there are different things that we can choose from. Hello. Hello. They have different sauces here. You have girkin. You know what is girkin? Like the kaslavets. You know this kasra that not fresh fermented. I think there is like fruit and vegetable bazar there. You remember like the bazar in Tana. I keep saying Tana because that’s what comes to my mind. Tana, Albania. I think it’s closed now, but we might go and check it out tomorrow. In the meantime, we got 1 kilometer to walk because at the end of the day, we going to go to the Taivera, guys. This Tava apparently is good. It’s nice. Let’s see. Let’s see how it is. I’m super curious, guys. Let’s go. Right. There are a lot of little shop here, guys. I don’t know what this Peach Boy coffee shop. There are a lot of coffee shop. Like local coffee shop. I want to ask if they do only coffee though. Wait. All right. I guess it’s just a coffee shop here. But you know I love to I wanted to ask she was at the phone I didn’t want to vote her if they do only coffee if they do all also bugata you know the Greek sweet that we wanted to eat here the gear I guess they sell something here look this one look all the lights wow what’s the name of this so Turkish zlo can be Okay, thank you. Thank you. I asked that so this is the name apparently because I saw recently online that they do that also in George Armania is one of the oldest sweet recorded apparently in some books, recipe books. Yeah, it’s it was used like by I think like 3,000 years ago by the army in order to gain some energy is made like with grapes grape juice or something and like nuts. So you got the fat of the nuts, you got the sugar, simple carbs and it gives you a lot of energy. Used to give a lot of energy to the soldiers who were going to fight. I think one of the oldest recipe if I remember good is from the Assyrians. So the old civilization that now belongs to the modern Syria. History pill for you guys. Secret is to run guys because you never know when it gets red. Here you got red. I didn’t even have the time to cross, you know. Incredible. Oh well, we’re still working. We’re still looking. There is a place there. I see. So yeah, still looking, guys. Still searching. I want to find the best one and to show you me. I want to check this place, guys. And let’s look what they cook. I think it’s like a small tower. I don’t know. Let’s go and look uh the other one because this is not the one that we have on the maps. So, yeah, let’s go and look that. If not, we come back here. Mit, what is this place? I don’t see it on Agonist stone. What is this place? It’s like ruins. Imagine how old is this place. Sorry. What is this place? My name is the Roman agora. The Roman Roman agora. Yeah, that’s how we call it. Okay. So, it’s the Roman Agora. Nice. Good to know. It’s for YouTube. Okay. YouTube. Thank you. Thank you. Guys, it’s from Roman Agora. The gentleman told me this. It’s from the Roman period. Ah, incredible. I thought it was from the ancient Greek. Incredible guy. I’m surprised because I forgot even the Romans were here. Concured here. Wow. Roman agora. Roman square right here. Imagine to live there. It is alternate to see the Roman agora. 2000 and more year of history. Amazing. What this for me? This is the mayor. I decide this is the mirror guys. Looks very nice. There are the flags there. Look at the contrast of the old building and the new hotel ter is huge this palace. I still continue to think he’s the mayor. This guy look how huge this is like yeah a government building for sure is the mayor I guess. Not sure. The problem is that not everywhere there are zebra crossing guys here. And now we have to go in this steep road here. I have to run too you know otherwise I can’t go up. Mama mia. Can you see even the motorcycle makes effort to go up? What is that symbol? What is that? You tell me. I love this old style, guys. This buildings like this raw antique. I’m out of breath. Okay, let’s see. We’re almost arrived. 4 minutes. When we go down, we’re going to roll like a bowl because we ate. So, we are pretty full. I hope is good plates. We’re going to check if we like it. Look at the tree of palm grenade, guys. I don’t know where we’re going here, guys. We’re going like a hidden road. I don’t know. I hope this Google Maps is correct, guys, because I don’t see any tava here to be honest. Guys, I’m looking for the tavern. It’s close by. What? Tavern left. It’s good. Oh, thank God. Thank you. Bye. Mama me. I’m all sweaty, guys. But I hear voices. I think it’s full. I think these people took the taxi. They didn’t really walk like we did. All right. I guess we can sit. It’s very hot. I wanted to sit outside, but we can’t. We sat and they brought already a bottle of water, which we sued. I think they saw I’m really sweaty probably. I don’t know. They brought automatically the water, but it’s nice. It’s a nice touch. Let’s see the menu now. Come to me. Let’s look at the menu now. Oh, let’s see. There are the photos. But is it in English? It’s already in English. Let’s see what we can order now. I want some gears if they do because I’m sure gears the meat here are super super good. Yeah, I will ask directly without looking. Guys, I just noticed is from 1885 this time. Imagine how many people came inside here. Wow, I’m impressed. I mean, we ordered kind of lots. We ordered the like the meatballs which is 50% pork, 50% cow. Then we ordered something with chicken. I will show you in a bit like the chicken skewers I think like saki and then we ordered the French fries so portion and the meat he told me comes with the rice it’s like standard on the fork so let’s see indeed I saw in some place they put rice I think it’s very very good let’s see I see only locals here guys only the tourist the only tourist I saw were the ones that were going down before so it should be really good this place is full of locals I miss you made Greek meatball. So 50% pork, 50% cow. Looks good. And the rice is here with some lemon. Let’s dig in. Let’s try it, guys. I’m really curious. Piping hot, but really really good actually. Love it. Taste more like so. So it gives a lot of taste. That’s why they put alan alpha in because the pork itself does not have so much taste but the cow here is really tasteful. I mean came the sublaki. This is chicken and basically the same plate but they put of course chicken skewers. Let’s try. Looks good. Let’s see. I tried already this rice. I don’t know what they put but it’s a lot has a lot of taste. I don’t know if they put butter. They put tastes like cinnamon. I don’t know if they put some special spice. I don’t know. But really, really good. Fried the chicken, guys. Look how juicy it looks. It’s cook really, really well. And of course, it’s seasoned really, really well. Let’s try. I don’t know if they make it so juicy. I think they put some fat or something. And they marinate, they season it very, very well with this meat. Really, really nice. This is complimentary from the house. Nice. Let’s try it. €25, guys. Not bad. That’s around 26 27 USD for two people. Not bad. This one is fluffy, guys. Look. Wow. What is this? Looks like made with milk and vanilla. M. Very good, actually. And this one, I guess, is like brownie. Let’s try. This one reminds me of that Talbanian sweet I told you which is called Copenagen. In Albania we put also walnuts. I think here is without walnuts and is only with sherbet and uh thank you very much. €1530. It was €15. Sorry guys, not 25. My mistake. So I said this wheat is very very good. Reminds me of Albania. Thank you very much of Yeah. Let’s dig in. Let’s go, guys. I was forgetting the bag. Took everything. Fantastic place. Let’s go out now. People are waiting, guys. The queue. So, let’s leave some space. Super super dark here, guys. I don’t know if you see me. We’re going to go back. Oh, Leo was vibrating. Was jittering. I’m going to go back to the city center because we’re going to eat some bugata, which is like a pie with vanilla or chocolate, whatever you want to put inside. typical from here. So yeah, let’s go there and eat it. Guys, we’re going I put the light by the way of the phone. We’re going on this small street here where people live. It’s nice because I feel really like a Let me take off the the light here from the phone. It’s nice to go on these roads because I feel like I am a local, guys. Oh boy. It’s coming a cart there, guys. And it’s super downhill and the road is tight. Boy, look at the car. How steep it is. Look, he’s with the first gear. And it’s making a lot of effort. Boy, boy, boy. Well, I have to cross here. I guess we can cross here fast. Oh, boy. All right. Done. Anyway, I look forward to see this place guys to try the bugata authentic from Tesaloniki Macedonia or machedonia, however you want to say it. Big big road here, guys. And we need to go there on the downhill. I told you that Mikl is like the Starbucks of Greece is a Greek brand. Really good coffee as far as I remember when I went to Cyprus, which is basically Greek uh let’s say a Greek island. Even though it’s separated, the north zone is there are Turkish, you know, is occupied, etc. Anyway, long story short, I discovered this Mikl super dark. I hope you can see me good. I discovered this Mikl and was really, really good. The coffee, the croissants really highly suggested. I think we will not go, guys, because we’re going to go in a typical Greek coffee place tomorrow morning to have breakfast. So, yeah, of course, we’re going to live like locals, guys. We’re going to merge. We’re going to mix with the locals. That’s how we do it. I mean, you cannot really see it here, but it’s the forum Romano. Wow. There are the Roman columns there, I think. Ah, this is the one we saw before, probably. I don’t know. Wow. Looks really nice. This city is full of history, guys. I’m in love. I’m in love. I’m telling you. I love it. I love history. Wow. Everywhere you go, you you see something here. It’s like Florence, Fence, and Italia. Look, guys. It’s like the colosum. I think you see they used to sit there. There probably they were the gladiators. Tomorrow morning anyway we will see better. There were probably the gladiators, the lions, the tigers fighting. And now there are trees and some ruins. Would love to get in actually tomorrow here to show you better. I love this piece of

🇬🇷 EATING LIKE A LOCAL IN THESSALONIKI, GREECE 🇬🇷 | Traditional Greek Food, Tavernas & Hidden History 🍽️

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The day starts as I step out of my apartment in Thessaloniki with one goal — to find real Greek food. With Google Maps guiding me toward the center, I walk through lively streets where every corner smells of grilled meat and olive oil. Cafés overflow with laughter, scooters race by, and the sound of Greek music fills the air. Instantly, I feel that timeless Mediterranean vibe that makes Greece unforgettable.

Approaching Aristotelous Square, the heart of Thessaloniki, I pass countless gyros spots and family-run restaurants. I stop to watch locals enjoying souvlaki, pita, and tzatziki — pure Greek comfort food. The more I explore, the more I realize Thessaloniki isn’t just beautiful — it’s alive. It’s where food, history, and people connect naturally, far from the tourist crowds.

Locals tell me to visit Ouzeri Tsinari, one of Thessaloniki’s oldest tavernas. On the way, I pass through the Roman Agora, a breathtaking open-air ruin that shows how deeply history lives in every street. Marble columns rise between modern buildings — this is why Greece feels like an open museum.

When I reach Tsinari, it’s full of locals — laughter, music, and plates everywhere. I order chicken skewers and traditional Greek meatballs, both served with rice and lemon. Simple, authentic, unforgettable. Every bite reminds me why Greek cuisine is one of the best in the world — honest, flavorful, and made with heart.

As night falls, I search for dessert — a traditional Greek bougatsa, that creamy, flaky pastry Thessaloniki is famous for. Back at the center, the streets glow, people fill the cafés, and the city feels alive again. My day ends at the Roman Amphitheater, reflecting on how this city blends ancient history and modern soul through food and everyday life.

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⏱️ TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro | Looking for Real Greek Food in Thessaloniki 🇬🇷
00:30 Walking to the Center | Exploring Local Streets & Cafes
06:26 Aristotelous Square | Lively City Vibes & Food Hunt
10:20 Roman Agora | Ancient History in the City Center
13: 06 Ouzeri Tsinari | Authentic Greek Taverna Experience
14:40 Chicken Skewers & Greek Meatballs | Honest Food Review
17:15 Night Walk | Searching for Bougatsa Dessert
19:20 Roman Amphitheater | Ending the Day with History & Reflection

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