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> for small fish like fresh anchovies and sardines (extremely popular and widely sold) this problem is non-existent. Yes, I am referring to bigger fish indeed.

> for small fish like fresh anchovies and sardines (extremely popular and widely sold) this problem is non-existent. Yes, I am referring to bigger fish indeed. > Most/all tavernas and inexpensive restaurants in Greece that have bigger fresh fish on the menu encourage you to go into the kitchen and either pick the fish yourself or watch it being picked/prepared for you Where did you get that from? That absolutely never happens. And even if it did happen unless if they had the fish labelled the tourists would still be unable to know if they were being tricked. > the really expensive gourmet fish restaurants I was mostly referring to taverns. You will find lots of them in touristic areas. Gourmet restaurants not so much.

qqn 7y ago
Agreed, I lived in Trikala and Athens for close to a year and never heard of this "pick your own fish" option. In fact, I was surprised by how unpopular fish seemed to be. In Thessaloniki all we ate were gyros and pizzas (poor students), the restaurant owner who served us in Nafpaktos was proud to call his town "the meat capital" of the country, on a trip to Delphi and Olympia we just had the typical meat and roasted vegetable/salad shared meal, and in Crete my friends told me the best thing was rabbit stew. Either way, we had only meat in both Heraklion and Chania. In Rhodes we were told by a souvenir seller that they ate "everything", but that octopus was the best... until they all got eaten. The deer were also good, but those got eaten as well... so gyros for us there too. The two seafood meals I do remember were at the base of Poseidon's temple in Sounion (a small, pretty dodgy Russian café at which we ate because it was the only thing there and the bus wasn't coming back for another hour), and traveling in downtown Corfu in the middle of their deadest season and being offered some pink fish the size of a shoe for €50. We ended up getting some fresh prawns and pizzas for much, much cheaper. The marble and roses and Venetian influence were well worth the rip-off attempt though. I'm not saying no one eats fish there, just I had ample time to see it if it were the case and, well, nope. Very surprising for a peninsula, but then I just figured they were overfished. What I did learn though is that my absolute favourite Greek food is their simple salad. You can literally taste the sun. All these places: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Trikala,+Greece/Thessaloniki,+Greece/Athens,+Greece/Delphi,+Greece/Olimpia,+Greece/Nafpaktos,+Greece/Crete,+Greece/Rhodes,+Greece/Corfu,+Greece/Sounion,+Greece https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Trikala,+Greece/Thessaloniki...

qqn 7y ago

Agreed, I lived in Trikala and Athens for close to a year and never heard of this "pick your own fish" option. In fact, I was surprised by how unpopular fish seemed to be. In Thessaloniki all we ate were gyros and pizzas (poor students), the restaurant owner who served us in Nafpaktos was proud to call his town "the meat capital" of the country, on a trip to Delphi and Olympia we just had the typical meat and roasted vegetable/salad shared meal, and in Crete my friends told me the best thing was rabbit stew. Either way, we had only meat in both Heraklion and Chania. In Rhodes we were told by a souvenir seller that they ate "everything", but that octopus was the best... until they all got eaten. The deer were also good, but those got eaten as well... so gyros for us there too. The two seafood meals I do remember were at the base of Poseidon's temple in Sounion (a small, pretty dodgy Russian café at which we ate because it was the only thing there and the bus wasn't coming back for another hour), and traveling in downtown Corfu in the middle of their deadest season and being offered some pink fish the size of a shoe for €50. We ended up getting some fresh prawns and pizzas for much, much cheaper. The marble and roses and Venetian influence were well worth the rip-off attempt though. I'm not saying no one eats fish there, just I had ample time to see it if it were the case and, well, nope. Very surprising for a peninsula, but then I just figured they were overfished. What I did learn though is that my absolute favourite Greek food is their simple salad. You can literally taste the sun. All these places: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Trikala,+Greece/Thessaloniki,+Greece/Athens,+Greece/Delphi,+Greece/Olimpia,+Greece/Nafpaktos,+Greece/Crete,+Greece/Rhodes,+Greece/Corfu,+Greece/Sounion,+Greece https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Trikala,+Greece/Thessaloniki...