The File
Papaioannou, Kavouri
Seafood restaurant · Kavouri, Vouliagmeni
The Mikrolimano fish house, with a room on the Kavouri headland. The one serious seafood address actually on this coast.
Commercial relationship
None. LivingTheta has no commercial relationship with Papaioannou or the Okyalos Group and receives nothing from it.
- What it is
- Seafood restaurant Part of the Okyalos Group.
- Where
- Kavouri, in the Municipality of Vari-Voula-Vouliagmeni
- Chef and name
- Giorgos Papaioannou
- The original
- Mikrolimano, Piraeus Where the reputation was built. There is also a Kifissia room.
- The room
- A deck over the water Glass to the sea, on the operator’s own account.
- Phone
- +30 211 100 1117
- Distance
- About 1 km from Vouliagmeni Straight-line. No authority publishes journey times for these routes; by road it is longer, and in traffic considerably longer.
Giorgos Papaioannou built his name at Mikrolimano in Piraeus, on a terrace at the water among the moored boats. The group now runs a room at Kavouri, on the Vouliagmeni headland, and one in Kifissia.
Why the Kavouri room matters more than the list suggests
Almost every recommendation a new arrival gets for serious seafood points into Piraeus or out to an island. This one is on the headland, which for a household in Vouliagmeni or Kavouri is a walk rather than a drive.
The Kavouri file lists what is on that headland and it is a short list — the beach, the club, the Divani, and very little else. A fish house with an Athens reputation is a material addition to it.
How to read a Greek fish restaurant
By the display, not the menu. A well-run one tells you what came in this morning and what did not, and will steer you off something if it is not good today. A poorly run one sells you anything on the list.
That is the same test as everywhere else on this coast, applied to the one category where it is easiest to check and hardest to fake.
