Diporto is a taverna that has literally been hidden away for decades in Athens, yet it only recently became known to the outside world thanks to the efforts of an Instagrammer who managed to find it and who then managed to make it famous. The basement-level place is easy to miss, given the lack of a sign, but once you walk down the well-worn steps you’re in for a real treat as a cavernous world of surprises awaits behind those two doors.
The taverna is located down below ground level and is known by the locals simply as “Diporto”, a name that comes from the fact that there are two doors leading inside. The place is dark, with a faded concrete-block mosaic floor and one wall covered in wine barrels, which are used instead of purely for decoration. And from the vintage marble sinks and old-fashioned aluminum wine jugs to garlic wreaths next to a 1950s fridge and strong smell of food and smoke that sticks to your clothes, the atmosphere is so reminiscent of Greece of another era as if through stepping through those two doors you have somehow traveled back in time.
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- Sokratous 9 and Theatrou, Athens
- 21 0321 1463
