Kos Island Restaurants

We were here in September October 2006.
The surroundings may not be to everyones taste, but the food certainly is! Don't be put off by the large screens showing sport (or fashion), you can always sit with your back to them.
The locals eat here - always a good sign.

Favorite Dish: They have a full menu, but the fresh baked special pizza is best - try one between two before you commit yourself to a whole one! Try one of the salads at the same time - and maybe some extra olives.
The carafe of red wine went down well.
If you fancy a starter, then Mushrooms a la creme are good.

Good food and plenty of it!

Pretty much whatever your main meal, it will come with chips(fries) rice, salad, potatoes & veg. Most nights I ate the main course and left the rest as it was far too much - unless you have a big appetite.
You also got a complimentary liqueur at the end of the evening.

The best thing really is the atmosphere, the waiters are friendly and chatty and it doen't feel that it is forced. Be warned you may be taught some Greek by head waiter Michael and you won't get your bill unless you give it a go 'ton logarismo' all in good fun of course.

We went back several times and would do so again

Favorite Dish: They do a very good Kleftiko

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All tourists this comes on the island Kos, wants to enjoy only the well-known conventional food.
Besides Moussaka, Zaziki, Greek salad or Souvlaki, there are many other traditional foods that the Greeks eat.
There are a small number of tourists, who try this unknown news.
However, it rewards!
The Greeks love to eat, and, get pleasure from food.
They, like to enjoy the Essen, together with friends, into a table community, named "paréa".
On the table one can find, mostly fish and seafood into different variations and cook types.
The serving of food is exquisite and copious on the plate.
Although the meal is healthy, is inevitable to increase here.

Favorite Dish: Nut salad
Greek salad
Fish and seafood
Wine leaves beef olives
Moussáka

A fantastic restaurant, overlooking the marina and sea in Kardamena, very reasonably priced and excellent food, highly recommended!

Favorite Dish: I tried a few dishes from this restaurant, my favorite being the chicken in sauce it was so nice!

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Early afternoon we were wandering down the narrow and empty streets of Kefalos. It was quite hot, people were hiding in their houses and we did not expect anything interesting. Suddenly an elderly gentleman walked out of his empty cafe and invited us in.

We were stunned by the simplicity of the place. It was clean and very basic. The shop offered a few types of pastries (yummy!), coffee, drinks... and a truly local scenery, not to mention the very kind service by the owner.

Favorite Dish: We had frappe and a sweet cake. The coffee was nothing special but I'd give my life for one more portion of the cake ;-)

This was a total disaster. The tavern is located in a nice place with a panoramic view of Kos airport and a small church, right at the end of Andimahia.

Customers are shown a short menu. After you select what you wish to have, the waitress laughs loudly and says that you won't have that as they don't serve this dish. Finally you get dry and tasteless souvlaki or horiatiki (Greek salad) made of old vegetables.

Definetely a place to stay away from - poor menu, poor food and poor service. I should have placed this in the 'warnings on dangers' section...

In Platani the best place for a dessert is Zacharoplasteio I Paradosi. The sweet smell surrounds the place. We knew that it would be the best bet there - and we were right!

Favorite Dish: We took two or three cakes, all of them quite heavy and large, sticky from the sweet sauce, full of calories and quite inexpensive. It took us two days to eat them up :-)

I put the 'local' category here for a reason: Kos is physically very close to Turkey and although Greeks and Turks are not best friends, Turkish culture and people of Turkish origin are widely tolerated in Kos.

In Platani, south-west of Kos town we stopped on our way to Asklepieio. We knew that the village was mainly inhabited by Turks and expected a good lunch in one of the restaurants surrounding the main square. We chose Serif.

Favorite Dish: A light lunch for two with a bottle of retsina cost EUR 13.50 and it was marvelous. I'm so sorry to admit that I don't remember what we had... it was red pepper stuffed with cheese, cheese sticks in thin pastry... god, I can't recall the menu :-(