Moden.
Forty square metres, one pastry chef, nothing extra.
Edited by Aki Sumawaki
Pastry Workshop
Since 2025
Nordic Minimalism
~10 min walk to Panathenaic Stadium
~13 min to Kolonaki Square
Pavlos Tsiolekas's café and pastry workshop on Pratinou: white walls, custom timber and metal by architect Georgios Apostolopoulos, windows on two sides and a small mezzanine. A short seasonal menu of pastries made that day, and coffee done properly.
Moden occupies forty square metres on the ground floor of a residential building on Pratinou Street in Pangrati. The space was designed by Athens-and-London-based architect Georgios Apostolopoulos, who stripped everything back — white walls, custom timber-and-metal furnishings built specifically for the room, and large windows on two sides that pull the neighbourhood inside. Bar seating pairs with metal stools, a low bench lines the perimeter, and a slender steel staircase climbs to a small mezzanine above.
Behind the counter is Pavlos Tsiolekas, a young pastry chef who built Moden around a single focus. The menu is seasonal and deliberate: freshly made pastries — the kind you order twice — alongside coffee done properly. Moden operates as a workshop as much as a café, with production visible and the menu reflecting exactly what is being made that day.
A corner in Pangrati that decided to be exactly one thing, and did it properly.
Pangrati has been quietly assembling a constellation of destination cafés, and Moden arrived in early 2025 as one of its more considered additions. No noise, no distraction — just a room that knows exactly what it is.
Why we picked it
One pastry chef, one small room and complete focus. It is the kind of place that makes a neighbourhood feel lucky.
Best forA morning coffee and a pastry worth crossing town for
