Kerameikos · Athens
Not Hotel.
No Ordinary Things. Eight lives in.
21 rooms inside a 200-year-old stone building on Voutadon, restored 2023. A former brothel, army barn, gas-worker housing, film studio — the building has had eight lives, and NOT is the ninth. One MICHELIN Key.
"Two hundred years. Eight lives. The ninth is a hotel with one MICHELIN Key."
Voutadon 16. The street that runs from Kerameikos metro toward the old gasworks, the side of Athens where the bones still show.
The building is two hundred years old, stone, on the route the ancients called the Great Road — the path from the walled city down to the port at Piraeus. The list of what it has been: a brothel at the turn of the 1800s, an army barn before the First World War, English barracks in the Second, housing for the workers at the gas factory, a film studio in the 1970s. Then quietly decaying through the rest of the twentieth century until Giannis, Emily, and Leonidas decided to make it a hotel.
The same family runs Gazarte — the Kerameikos music venue that's been booking artists for nearly thirty years. They opened NOT in 2023. The name is an acronym: No Ordinary Things. The conceit is that nothing here pretends. The stonework was kept where it was found. Iron and dark wood were added in the register of an Athens neighbourhood circa 1920. Twenty-one rooms ring an inner courtyard planted with olive trees and Greek wildflowers, an ancient well at its centre. The pool is in the middle of all of this.
One MICHELIN Key. The restaurant cooks from the hotel's own olive oil and a list of small Greek wines. Book a room that faces the courtyard, not the street. The Temple of Hephaestus is a fifteen-minute walk; the centre is closer than it looks. Read the building before you read the menu.
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