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Is 10pm Late for Dinner?

Lesvos Travel Guide - Tips on Local Greeks

Greeks have their own sense of time; are late for most appointments and often use the motto: “Why do today what you can do tomorrow?” This easy-going pace of life places dinner, only naturally, at the very end of the day! Going out to dinner or eating in makes no difference as dinner is usually at 10:00 p.m. sometimes even later if it is a hot night.

If you worry it will take you some time to adapt please don’t, as all tavernas and restaurants serve all day, having their menus posted outside their door so one can check out the prices.

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Do I Get a Plate?

Lesvos Travel Guide - Tips on Local Greeks

Today Greek families continue to gather and enjoy their mealtimes together. If you are lucky and get invited for a Greek meal, gladly take up on this kind offer and add on to your experience as a local.

If you find yourself asking the question, “Do I get a plate?” stop yourself and look for the fork, because that is all you will need. If you have a fork (and preferably a glass of ouzo) that means you are welcome and have become a part of the parea (company of friends or family).

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Local Grown Tasty Lesvos Food

Lesvos Travel Guide - Tips on Local Greeks

Lesvos has over 90,000 residents dispersed in small towns or as still called by many, villages. It is wise to drive around the island and taste various locally produced specialties. The olive oil is pure, the cheese full of flavours, the wine and ouzo are excellent, the meat is delicious and the fish is just as fresh as it can get.

There is no doubt: Greece is blessed with a fruitful land and a very rich sea.

Seasonal fruits and vegetables are often grown by locals and become easily accessible to the rest of us via grocery stores, mini markets and even some bigger super markets. A wide variety of imported goods is also available at all local markets.

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Drinking Ouzo - A Form of Art

Lesvos Travel Guide - Tips on Local Greeks

Diluted with water and ice or straight up, drinking ouzo is a form of art, as is its making. Traditionally, the aromatic aniseeds are soaked in water for three days and then this mixture is combined with the alcohol.

A series of distillations follows to refine the results but take into account that producers have their secrets, whether that’s an ingredient, a different extraction method, the speed of distillation or even the size of the still. Whatever the secrets are, it is well known, when you drink ouzo... you will speak nothing but the truth!

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