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Moschato

Ta Kanaria.

Family fish taverna on Kanari in Moschato — since 1950.

Ta Kanaria has been running in Moschato since 1950, in an old single-family house with a courtyard on Kanari Street. Four generations on, the kitchen still does shrimps, fried fish, and seasonal seafood from the Saronic — honest cooking that hasn’t moved with the trends because it doesn’t need to.

Moschato is not on the standard Athens itinerary. It sits south of the city centre, between Kallithea and Neo Faliro — a working-class neighbourhood with no particular monument or famous address. Ta Kanaria is on Kanari Street, in a converted single-family house with a courtyard, and it has been there since 1950.

Four generations of the same family have run the kitchen. The menu is seafood-centred: shrimp, calamari, grilled whole fish, fried dishes from the day’s catch. The sourcing is local — primarily from the Saronic Gulf. Nothing is elaborate. The cooking is direct and very good.

1950. The same address. The same shrimps.

Prices are low. The room and courtyard together seat enough people to create genuine noise on a Friday night. Wine comes in a jug. There is no English menu; the service is fast and experienced. Ta Kanaria is the kind of place Athenians drive across the city for, which tells you most of what you need to know.

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