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A brief guide on where to eat in Athens. The city has a great variety of restaurants, but for the best ones, follow the locals. I’ve had mixed success finding great Greek food by chance, but my friends and hotel staff have never steered me in the wrong direction.

Plaka, the oldest neighborhood in Athens, sits just off the northern slopes of the Acropolis. It’s hard to imagine this was pretty much all of Athens back in the 18th and early 19th centuries – not much more than a village.