Heritage House · 9
- Achaia Clauss Patras / Greece
Founded in 1861 by Bavarian Gustav Clauss, Achaia Clauss is Greece's oldest winery and the birthplace of Mavrodaphne of Patras, still ageing 1873 barrels in its Imperial Cellar. Visitors tour the stone winecastle and old oak casks and taste at the historic Cava Danielis. store page → · open in the atlas → - Ariston Voulis 10, Athens
The Lobotesis family has run Ariston on Voulis Street, just behind Syntagma Square, since 1910, a takeout-only pie counter with no seating. Its best-seller for decades has been the tyropita kourou, a half-moon pie with a thick, buttery crust filled with crumbled feta. store page → · open in the atlas → - Brettos Distillery Athens / Greece
Founded in 1909, Brettos is Athens' oldest distillery, tucked in the Plaka neighborhood and known for its wall of backlit, multi-hued liqueur bottles. The family-run shop distills and sells its own ouzo, tsipouro, and fruit liqueurs alongside Greek olive oil, honey, and deli goods, both in person and through its online liquor store. store page → · open in the atlas → - Estate Argyros (Ktima Argyros) Episkopi Gonia / Mesa Gonia, Santorini, Greece
Founded in 1903, Estate Argyros ranks among Santorini's most acclaimed producers of Assyrtiko and aged Vinsanto. Its tastings draw on old ungrafted vineyards worked by the same family. store page → · open in the atlas → - Katsaros Distillery 7th km Tyrnavos–Larissa, Tyrnavos, Larissa, Thessaly, Greece
Established in 1856, this Tyrnavos distillery is now run by its fourth generation, producing ouzo, tsipouro, aged tsipouro, brandy, and liqueurs from closely guarded family recipes. The distillery has collected medals at international spirits fairs while keeping production in the same family hands for over 165 years. store page → · open in the atlas → - Manos & Co. (Dictamus) Finikia, Heraklion
Founded in 1933 by Emmanuel I. Manos, this Heraklion company has exported Cretan dittany, mountain tea, oregano and sage for nearly a century. Its Karteraki brand packages the same herbs, plus worldwide spices, into traditional-recipe teabag blends. store page → · open in the atlas → - Mokka Specialty Coffee Athens / Greece
Mokka has roasted coffee from the same building in central Athens since 1923, now run by a fourth generation, sourcing green beans from farms in Kenya, Ethiopia, Guatemala, and Panama that it lists on its site with roast dates. Visitors can buy bags of single-origin coffee and Greek-style blends directly from the Athinas Street headquarters or order online for courier delivery. store page → · open in the atlas → - Patounis Soap Corfu Town
The Patounis family has boiled olive-oil soap in the same Corfu Town workshop since 1891, cutting and stamping every bar by hand and curing it on open racks for months. Their soapmaking sits on Greece's national inventory of intangible cultural heritage, and the shop sells green-olive, white-olive and laundry soaps alongside loose soap flakes. store page → · open in the atlas → - Zacharoplasteia Nousias Ioannina, Epirus, Greece
Nousias has run its pastry counters in Ioannina since 1948, turning out the syrup-soaked, walnut-filled baklava the city is known for alongside other traditional Greek sweets. The family business has since added a dedicated Pastry Lab alongside its original shopfronts. store page → · open in the atlas →
Hidden Gem · 31
- Apostolidis Ceramics (En Sifno) Kamares, Sifnos, Cyclades
Ceramicist Giannis Apostolidis throws and glazes traditional Sifnos pottery at his En Sifno workshop, on the road from Kamares to Apollonia. A second showroom carries the work in Platis Gialos. store page → · open in the atlas → - Aristokratikon Karageorgi Servias, central Athens
Established in 1928, this Athenian chocolatier hand-makes chocolates, marzipan and candied fruit. Traditional Greek confections round out the counter. store page → · open in the atlas → - AROMATTIKA The Store Idomeneos 25, Heraklion / Online
Cretan aromatherapy and natural care from Heraklion — essential oils, herbal blends and soaps built on the island's own thyme, dittany and olive. A small shop that smells like the Cretan hillside it draws from. store page → · open in the atlas → - Atlantis Books Oia, Santorini
Atlantis Books occupies a cave-like space near the caldera in Oia, filled with hand-painted decor and a curated multilingual selection. The independent shop is known as much for its literary events as for its books. store page → · open in the atlas → - Baba Yianka Sifaka Street, Chania Old Town
In the Maheradika quarter on Sifaka Street, Baba Yianka stitches leather goods entirely by hand with rulers, forks and needles rather than electric machines. The range covers the Vourgiali backpack, belts, wallets, tobacco cases and jewellery in traditional Cretan designs. store page → · open in the atlas → - Biolea Astrikas, Kolymvari, Chania
At Astrikas near Kolymvari, Biolea presses organic olives on granite millstones and cold-presses the paste under hydraulic pressure, reviving a stone-milling method largely displaced by centrifugal mills. The family estate sells unfiltered extra virgin oil along with olive-oil soaps and herb-infused oils. store page → · open in the atlas → - Chios Mastiha Growers Association Pyrgi and the Mastic Villages (Mastichochoria), Chios
This cooperative union gathers the mastic producers of southern Chios, Pyrgi and the other Mastichochoria among them, to collect and market genuine PDO Chios Mastiha. Under its mastihashop brand it sells mastic tears, chewing gum, oils, cosmetics and confectionery. store page → · open in the atlas → - Cretan Knives Karaiskaki Street, Chania
This Chania workshop on Karaiskaki Street has forged traditional Cretan knives since 1938, now run by the third generation after founder Skalidakis. It makes custom pieces alongside kitchen, shepherd and folding knives finished with horn, bone and wood handles, and offers sharpening and repair. store page → · open in the atlas → - Dourakis Winery Alikampos, Apokoronas, Chania
Andreas Dourakis founded this boutique winery in his home village of Alikampos in 1988 after training in Germany, and it works organically grown grapes including Vidiano and Kotsifali. The family estate produces whites, reds, roses and sparkling and dessert wines, with tours and tastings year-round. store page → · open in the atlas → - Eleas Thea Voukolies, Chania
The Goumenakis family harvests its own groves at Glossa near Voukolies to make organic, unfiltered extra virgin olive oil, including an early-picked agourelaio. The oil is pressed without chemical additives and sold direct alongside the family's village taverna. store page → · open in the atlas → - Emery Winery Rhodes
This historic family winery sits in the mountain village of Embonas, making Rhodian wines from both local and international grape varieties. Tastings and bottles are available at the source. store page → · open in the atlas → - Estate Anastasia (Triantafyllou Estate) Rhodes
This family estate in Paradisi makes wine, extra virgin olive oil and distillates alongside local honey and ceramics. Visitors can tour the vineyards, sit down to tastings or join hands-on cooking experiences. store page → · open in the atlas → - Irida Family Workshop Sapoutie 2, Heraklion / Online
Own-design ceramic, bronze and museum-inspired decorative objects produced through the family workshop in Heraklion. store page → · open in the atlas → - Korres Original pharmacy, Ivikou, Pangrati, Athens
Korres began in 1996 as a homeopathic pharmacy in central Athens before growing into a Greek natural skincare brand. The original pharmacy still trades as its heritage flagship. store page → · open in the atlas → - Kortsidakis Leather Chania
Kortsidakis handcrafts leather bags in Chania, cutting top-grade hides into backpacks, messenger and weekender bags, wallets and crossbody styles. Every piece is made in-house rather than bought in. store page → · open in the atlas → - Krokos Kozanis - Kozani Saffron Producers Cooperative Krokos, Kozani, Western Macedonia
Established in 1971 and around a thousand members strong, this cooperative holds the exclusive right to collect, pack and distribute Greek red saffron, the PDO Krokos Kozanis. From its base in Krokos it also sells saffron powder, herbal teas and honey. store page → · open in the atlas → - LALAoUNIS Panepistimiou, Athens / Online
Ilias Lalaounis revived the goldsmithing of Mycenae and Byzantium in modern Athens — hammered, granulated, unmistakably Greek. The house museum sits beneath the Acropolis; the ateliers still work his way. store page → · open in the atlas → - LoFi Concept Koukaki / Online
LoFi Concept is both an independent record shop and working ArtLab in Athens’ Koukaki neighborhood. The lab makes jewelry, pots, lamps and paintings from scratch, while the record section ranges across jazz, Afro-Latin, reggae, hip-hop, ambient, techno and other exploratory music. store page → · open in the atlas → - Manousakis Winery Vatolakkos, Chania
Ted Manousakis planted this organic estate on the hills above Vatolakkos in 1993 out of nostos, the longing to come home to Crete, and his daughter Alexandra has run it since 2007. The winery farms Rhone varieties such as Syrah, Grenache, Mourvedre and Roussanne and bottles them under the Nostos label. store page → · open in the atlas → - Mastihashop (Chios Mastiha Growers Association) Chios, North Aegean, Greece (mastic villages, Mastichochoria, incl. Mesta)
This is the official shop for authentic Chios Mastiha, run for the cooperative of growers across the island's 24 mastic villages, Mesta among them. Its shelves hold natural mastic tears, mastic oil and the foods, cosmetics and pharmaceutical products made from the PDO resin. store page → · open in the atlas → - Melissakis Family Olive Mill Tsivaras, Apokoronas, Chania
The Melissakis family has worked in olive oil at Tsivaras in Apokoronas since the 1890s, running a mill that presses extra virgin oil from local groves. Visitors can tour the production facility and taste across the range as part of the estate's agritourism. store page → · open in the atlas → - Michael Laventzakis Ceramics Skridlof (Leather Street), Chania Old Town
Michael Laventzakis has thrown functional handmade ceramics in Chania since 1980, shaping clay into dishes, mugs, clay bakeware and kitchen pieces for everyday use. His own production is sold from shops on Skridlof Street in the old town and at Platanias. store page → · open in the atlas → - O Armenis Sifaka Street, Chania Old Town
Michalis Pahtikos forges Cretan knives by hand on Sifaka Street, in Chania's historic Mahairadika cutlers' quarter, continuing a trade his father Apostolos built into the shop. Handles are fitted with bone, horn, olive wood and aspalathos, often engraved with traditional mantinades verses. store page → · open in the atlas → - Oktana Pottery Rhodes
Ceramist Theodore Karayiannis runs this contemporary studio and shop in Rhodes, selling handmade pottery. Classes are on offer for those who want to try the wheel. store page → · open in the atlas → - Santo Wines Pyrgos, Santorini
Run by the Union of Santorini Cooperatives, this Pyrgos winery presses the island's Assyrtiko, Athiri and Vinsanto grapes and bottles Santorini staples like fava, cherry-tomato products and olive oil under its SantoTaste label. Its wine tourism center looks out over the caldera. store page → · open in the atlas → - Sifnos Pottery Museum (Sifnos Pottery Association) Artemonas, Sifnos, Cyclades
Founded in 2001 at the Dragatsi Estate in Artemonas, this pottery museum and association preserves and presents the ceramic tradition of Sifnos. It showcases traditional Sifnian ceramics and the island's potters. store page → · open in the atlas → - Tetraktis Ceramics Verekinthos, Chania
Tetraktis designs and hand-builds ceramic objects at the Verekinthos artisans' village outside Chania, firing pieces by methods including raku. Alongside its wares the studio runs wheel-throwing classes and seminars for beginners and experienced potters. store page → · open in the atlas → - ThesisWood Skyros
At this Skyros workshop, carvers make traditional Skyrian furniture—chairs, armchairs, sofas, tables and chests—along with wall shelves and decorative pieces worked in the island's distinctive carved and painted style. It also runs woodcarving courses. store page → · open in the atlas → - Venetsanos Winery Megalochori, above Athinios port, Santorini
Venetsanos was Santorini's first industrially built winery, carved into the caldera cliff and producing Assyrtiko, Nykteri and Vinsanto. Visitors come for tastings, tours, a wine museum and views over the caldera. store page → · open in the atlas → - Yoleni's Solonos 9, Kolonaki, Athens
This multi-floor concept store is devoted to Greek gastronomy, bringing artisanal producers together under one roof. Olive oil, cheese, honey, wine and deli goods fill its floors. store page → · open in the atlas → - Zolotas Panepistimiou, Stadiou, central Athens
Founded in 1895, this Greek gold house is known for museum-inspired ancient-Greek goldwork and haute joaillerie. Its craft draws directly on antiquity. store page → · open in the atlas →
Worth a Detour · 2
- Melissinos Art Normanou 16, Athens
The Poet Sandal Maker — third-generation artisan making leather sandals for Jackie O, John Lennon, and Sophia Loren. Still hand-making them today. store page → · open in the atlas → - Stavros Melissinos Poet Sandals Agias Theklas 2, Psyrri, Athens
The poet-sandal maker's workshop — handmade leather sandals fitted to your feet. The same family has made them since the 1920s. store page → · open in the atlas →
The Register · 99
- A Future Perfect Historic Centre, Athens
A design shop selling home accessories, stationery, prints, lighting, and gifts by Greek and international designers. store page → · open in the atlas → - Achillea (Αχιλλεία) Volos / Greece
Achillea makes traditional Pelion products by hand in Volos, from spoon sweets and rare-flavor preserves to herbal shampoos and beeswax balms formulated from mountain herbs. The shop ships across Greece with free delivery over 33 euros and also supplies wholesale buyers. store page → · open in the atlas → - Acropolis Museum Shops Athens / Greece
Located at Dionysiou Areopagitou 15 in Athens, the Acropolis Museum runs a ground-floor gift store and a second-floor bookstore stocked with exhibit-inspired jewelry, ceramics, and titles on Athenian history. Its standout offering is a line of precise hand-cast exhibit replicas produced in the museum's own workshops by the conservators who care for the originals. store page → · open in the atlas → - Aesthet Kolonaki
Athens fashion concept store launched online in 2013, showcasing Greek designer labels — Zeus+Dione, Ancient Greek Sandals, Ilias Lalaounis — alongside independent Greek designers without their own ateliers; opened a Mykonos boutique in 2017 and its Athens flagship in 2019. store page → · open in the atlas → - Agricultural Cooperative Winery & Distillery of Tyrnavos 1st km Tyrnavos–Larissa, Tyrnavos, Larissa, Thessaly, Greece
Founded in 1961 by around 500 local vine-growers cultivating the Moschato Tyrnavou grape, this cooperative distills the tsipouro and ouzo of Tyrnavos alongside PGI wines and Retsina. Special bottlings include tsipouro aged in oak, infused with saffron, or flavored with mastic, all sourced from the growers' own 900 hectares of vineyards. store page → · open in the atlas → - Alexandros Lemonis Handmade Ceramics Apollonia, Sifnos, Cyclades, Greece
Potter Alexandros Lemonis makes handmade Sifnian ceramics and tableware, continuing the island's traditional pottery craft. His main workshop is at Platis Gialos, with a second exhibition and shop opened in 1998 in the island capital, Apollonia. store page → · open in the atlas → - Ambelonas Corfu Karoumpatika (near Corfu Town)
Six kilometres from Corfu Town at Karoumpatika, Ambelonas is a working hillside vineyard where owner-chef Vasiliki Karounou pours house wine and cooks traditional Corfiot dishes. Alongside tastings and cooking classes, its shop sells the estate's own wine and local Acordo products. store page → · open in the atlas → - Anamnesia Plaka, Athens
A Greek design shop selling illustrated souvenirs, stationery, accessories, clothing, and home objects. store page → · open in the atlas → - Anavasi Books & Maps Solonos 105, Athens
Greek mountain, island, and hiking maps — the best topographic maps for exploring Greece. Essential for hikers and climbers. store page → · open in the atlas → - Ancient Greek Sandals Athens / Greece / Online
Greek sandal maker — handmade in Athens using traditional techniques, vegetable-tanned leather, and classical Greek design. store page → · open in the atlas → - Ancient Kallos Athens, Greece
Greek resortwear label founded in Thessaloniki by sisters Labrini and Stella Stavrou, rebranding a decades-old family clothing business around 2014. Designs draw on Greek mythology and traditional embroidery, in natural cotton and linen fabrics made in Greece. store page → · open in the atlas → - Anthologist Kolonaki
An independent cabinet-like shop of jewelry, textiles and collectible objects selected by Andria Mitsakos. store page → · open in the atlas → - Apivita Solonos 26, Athens
Greek natural cosmetics — skincare, haircare, and wellness products based on Greek herbs, honey, and propolis. The best Greek beauty brand. store page → · open in the atlas → - Athens Flea Market on Sunday Ifestou, Monastiraki, Athens
Sunday only — antiques, military surplus, old coins, vinyl, and genuine junk mixed with treasure. Haggling is mandatory. Go early for the best finds. store page → · open in the atlas → - Attica Department Store City Link, Panepistimiou 9, Athens
Athens' largest department store — four floors of fashion, beauty, and accessories. The top floor has a food hall with gourmet Greek products. store page → · open in the atlas → - Benaki Museum Shop Athens / Online
Billed as the first museum shop in Greece, Benaki Museum Shop sells Greek-designed homewares, stationery, and jewelry, from letter openers to notebooks inspired by artists like Yannis Gaitis and the photographer Nelly's. Every purchase supports the Benaki Museum, and the full catalogue is browsable and purchasable through its online store. store page → · open in the atlas → - Beverly Athens, Greece
Athens smart-casual — Mediterranean modern menswear. store page → · open in the atlas → - Birdman Record Store Athens / Greece
Birdman's record store on Skoufou is a wood-panelled shrine to vinyl, inspired by Tokyo listening bars, where visitors browse new and rare releases, collector's items and art books while DJs play day and night. Open every day from early afternoon to midnight, it sits on the same downtown Athens alley as the group's Birdman and Ekiben kitchens. store page → · open in the atlas → - Camara Workshop Nafplio / Greece / Online
Camara is a Nafplio jewellery workshop where Sigrid and George Agathos handcraft unique pendants, rings, brooches and earrings in silver, gold, copper and stainless steel set with precious stones. Each artistic piece is a one-off, shown and sold through the workshop's online shop. store page → · open in the atlas → - Cheimarios Kalafationes, Corfu
From Kalafationes in the island's interior, Cheimarios has bottled soft drinks since 1950, chief among them tsitsibira — Corfu's spicy, alcohol-free ginger beer made to an 1860 recipe. A herbal refreshment called Alpinia joins it, both produced without additives or preservatives. store page → · open in the atlas → - Chrisostomos Christokopidou 12, Psyrri, Athens
Traditional taverna — Cretan specialities including lamb with stamnagathi, dakos, and Cretan cheese. The Cretan salad is a meal in itself. store page → · open in the atlas → - Corfu Microbrewery (Corfu Beer) Arillas, northwest Corfu
The Corfu Microbrewery produces the island's own beers, among them the Corfu Beer label and the Royal Ionian range. store page → · open in the atlas → - Creta Ceramic (Manolis Moutsakis) Thrapsano, Heraklion
In Thrapsano, the pottery village about 30 km south of Heraklion, potter Manolis Moutsakis throws frost-proof jars, pots and planters on the wheel from local clay. The workshop continues the village's long tradition of large storage pitharia, fired for outdoor durability. store page → · open in the atlas → - Cycladic Shop Athens / Greece
Reached through the Stathatos Mansion entrance while the museum's main doorway is under construction, the Cycladic Shop sells jewelry, ceramics, and gift items inspired by the Museum of Cycladic Art's collection, from figurine-shaped earrings to reproduction ceramic bowls. Every purchase supports the Athens museum's educational and scientific programs. store page → · open in the atlas → - Douloufakis Winery Dafnes, Heraklion
A family winery in Dafnes southwest of Heraklion working indigenous Cretan grapes such as Vidiano, Vilana and Liatiko across its Dafnios and Enotria labels. The estate also presses extra virgin olive oil and runs cellar wine and oil tastings. store page → · open in the atlas → - Dr Kavvadia Corfu
Now run by Apostolos, grandson of the doctor who planted it, this organic Corfu grove presses extra-virgin oil from centenarian Lianolia trees. The medium-intensity oil, with notes of artichoke, almond and cut grass, carries an EFSA health claim for its antioxidants and ships worldwide from the farm's shop. store page → · open in the atlas → - Elaikos Nea Peramos, Kavala
Elaikos presses extra virgin olive oil from groves around Nea Peramos on the Kavala coast, picking early in the harvest and storing the oil in nitrogen-flushed steel tanks to protect acidity. The family-run producer has won golds at the London and New York olive oil competitions and Gastronomos Quality Awards for its single-estate oils. store page → · open in the atlas → - Ere Athens Koukaki, Athens
A Kolonaki concept shop that curates Greek artisan-made objects alongside emerging international labels — tableware, textiles, jewelry, candles, skincare and magazines — organized around craft and material rather than one house look. store page → · open in the atlas → - Ergon House Mitraleou 23, Syntagma, Athens
Food hall and hotel — Greek artisan producers under one roof: cheese, charcuterie, wine, olive oil. Eat at the restaurant or buy to take home. The future of Greek food retail. store page → · open in the atlas → - Flakatoras Ceramics Old Harbour, Chania Old Town
This family pottery works from an 800-year-old Venetian building on the old harbour of Chania, making handmade mugs, plates, bowls and decorative pieces. The family also teaches wheel-throwing and painting on the same premises. store page → · open in the atlas → - Flaneur Souvenirs and Supplies Plaka
Independent concept shop in Plaka, Athens (Flessa 1 & Adrianou 110), founded by Katerina and Yannis Chytiroglou. Sells travel-themed accessories, illustrated posters, handcrafted soaps and small Greek-made objects. store page → · open in the atlas → - Folli Follie Athens, Greece
Athens-founded jewelry, watch and accessories brand established in 1982; after a major 2018 accounting-fraud scandal and its founders' 2020 conviction, the label continues trading in Greece through a restructured entity, FF OPSCO. store page → · open in the atlas → - Forget Me Not Plaka, Athens
This design-forward concept store in Plaka gathers contemporary Greek designers and makers. Its shelves span homeware, accessories and gifts. store page → · open in the atlas → - GnisioDerma Gazi, Heraklion
A leather workshop in Gazi on the western edge of Heraklion making stivania, the tall traditional Cretan boots, along with belts, bags and sandals. The shop also stocks leather dyes and conditioning creams for maintaining the boots. store page → · open in the atlas → - Herakleidon Museum Shop Athens / Greece
The Herakleidon Museum in Athens's Thissio district houses a shop just off its exhibition halls dedicated to ancient Greek technology and art, open the same hours as the museum, Wednesday through Sunday from 10am to 6pm. Located at 16 Herakleidon Street, the museum lists the shop directly among its visitor information alongside admission and contact details. store page → · open in the atlas → - Hyper Hypo Monastiraki, Athens
An independent art, architecture and visual-culture bookshop and publishing space. Established 2021. store page → · open in the atlas → - Ilias Lalaounis Athens, Greece
Athens’ goldsmith-scholar — museum-grade jewelry reviving Hellenistic and Byzantine goldwork. store page → · open in the atlas → - ILJMuseum Shop Athens / Greece
On the ground floor of the Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum near the Acropolis, the ILJMuseum Shop sells fine and artistic jewelry, decorative objects, and souvenirs alongside scholarly and general-interest art publications. The shop also takes custom orders for jewelry and objects in production, plus postcards and posters available in person or by mail order. store page → · open in the atlas → - It’s A Shirt Historic Centre, Athens
A shirt shop using deadstock fabrics and small-batch production connected to a family tailoring workshop. store page → · open in the atlas → - JD Art Ceramics Thessaloniki / Greece
JD Art runs both a ceramics studio offering pottery workshops and an online shop of handmade mugs, plates, and vases from its space at Christoforou Perevou 40 in Pilaia, Thessaloniki. Orders over 50€ ship free within Greece, and the studio also sells wholesale to other retailers. store page → · open in the atlas → - Karat Mykonos Jewellery Mykonos / Greece
Karat Mykonos is a Mykonos jewellery boutique showing original pieces handmade by Greek artists, from micromosaic rings and coin pendants to Byzantine crosses. Its turquoise-and-cream shop on Mitropoleos Street doubles as an online store shipping worldwide. store page → · open in the atlas → - Katarachias Halva Workshop (Χαλβαδοποιία Καταραχιάς) 42 Thetidos St, Farsala, Larissa, Thessaly, Greece
This Farsala workshop hand-turns soap halva and butter halva in bronze cauldrons, a technique the family says only Farsalon artisans achieve, alongside syrup desserts and kourabiedes. The current owner inherited the recipes and the trade from his father, running the business from the same corner shop it grew out of over four decades ago. store page → · open in the atlas → - Kazani Zargianaki Prinias, Heraklion
The Zargianakis family runs a working rakokazano at Prinias in the hills south of Heraklion, distilling tsikoudia (raki) from the autumn grape pressings between October and December. The site doubles as a seasonal taverna and sells the family's raki and traditional Cretan products. store page → · open in the atlas → - Kleanthi Olive Farm Skalani, Heraklion
A family olive farm in the village of Skalani above Heraklion, pressing Koroneiki and Tsounati fruit into early-harvest and single-origin extra virgin oils. Alongside the oils they bottle petimezi grape-must syrup and cure Kalamon and throumba olives, and open the grove for booked farm visits. store page → · open in the atlas → - Koufolias Olive Oil Mill Olympia / Greece
Near Ancient Olympia in Makrisia, the Koufolias family has produced extra-virgin olive oil for over fifty years, adding herb-infused oils and table olives. The oils are sold through the online store with worldwide shipping, and the mill welcomes visitors for tastings. store page → · open in the atlas → - Koukaki Koukaki, Athens
Athens' coolest neighbourhood — beneath the Acropolis, filled with artisan coffee shops, vintage stores, and tavernas. Voted one of the world's most interesting neighbourhoods by Airbnb. store page → · open in the atlas → - Koutis-Chatzis Jewellers Averof Street, Ioannina, Epirus, Greece
Koutis-Chatzis has sold jewellery, watches and religious items from the same shop on Averof Street in central Ioannina since Vasileios Koutis opened it in 1962, two years after he began selling jewellery door-to-door. His grandson Vasileios Chatzis took over in 2012 alongside his mother, keeping the shop's original wooden fittings and its membership in the Ioannina Association of Silversmiths and Goldsmiths. store page → · open in the atlas → - Krinos Aiolou 87, Athens
Historic loukoumades shop since 1923 — the honey doughnuts are crispy outside, fluffy inside, and drenched in local thyme honey. An Athens institution. store page → · open in the atlas → - Ktima Akrani Asfendiou, Kos
Ktima Akrani grows its own vineyard at Miniera on the foothills of Mount Dikaios and vinifies both indigenous Greek varieties and international grapes into three distinct wine lines, including an Asyrtiko-blend range called Akrani. Visitors taste in a purpose-built cellar overlooking Kalymnos and Pserimos, pairing flights with other Kos and Dodecanese products. store page → · open in the atlas → - LALAoUNIS (Ilias Lalaounis) Plaka / near the Acropolis, Athens
Founded by goldsmith Ilias Lalaounis near the Acropolis, this Greek house draws its collections from ancient and Byzantine motifs. Its archaeological-style jewelry earned an international following. store page → · open in the atlas → - Lalaounis Jewellers Athens, Greece (atelier; multiple boutique locations worldwide)
LALAoUNIS is an Athens jewelry house founded by goldsmith Ilias Lalaounis, now run by his granddaughters. Its atelier hand-crafts 18k and 22k gold jewelry drawing on ancient Greek, Minoan, Byzantine, and other historical motifs across themed collections. The family also operates the Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum in Athens. store page → · open in the atlas → - Lito Cabinet de Curiosités Kolonaki, Athens
A basement jewelry shop presenting Lito Karakostanoglou’s fine jewelry alongside selected objects and curiosities. store page → · open in the atlas → - Lyrarakis Winery Alagni, Heraklion
Founded by brothers Manolis and Sotiris Lyrarakis in 1966 and based at Alagni southeast of Heraklion, this winery is known for reviving near-extinct Cretan varieties including Dafni, Plyto and Melissaki. Now run by the second generation and farmed organically since 2020, it bottles single-vineyard wines from more than eleven local grapes. store page → · open in the atlas → - MASKA Nafplio Nafplio / Greece
MASKA Nafplio has traded on the old town's 'big road' since 1989, selling handmade jewellery and objects created exclusively by Greek designers and artists. Everything is made from natural materials such as silver, gold, wood, clay, glass and stone, including decorative pieces and lucky charms. store page → · open in the atlas → - Mauri Honey Shop Kefalos, Kos
Mauri Honey Shop has kept hives on the wild thyme slopes around Kefalos since 1970, bottling the resulting thyme honey in sizes from 125-gram jars up to 26-kilogram catering tins. The family opened a bricks-and-mortar shop on Kos in 2010 after four decades of beekeeping, and sells squeeze bottles alongside traditional glass jars. store page → · open in the atlas → - Mavromatis Kumquat Feleka, Corfu
The Mavromatis family has worked Corfu's kumquat crop since 1965, turning the small citrus into liqueur, spoon sweets, marmalades and cordials at their premises in Feleka. The range runs from kumquat and ginger sodas to soaps and creams, all made from the island's fruit. store page → · open in the atlas → - Mavromatis Kumquat Skripero production / Corfu Town retail shop / Online
Family-run since 1965, Mavromatis makes Corfu kumquat liqueur, spoon sweets, marmalade, glacé fruit, ouzo and fruit liqueurs at its Skripero distillery, with production reaching about a million bottles a year. Visitors can buy at the factory and exhibition space on the Paleokastritsa road and at the dedicated retail shop at Michail Theotoki 9 in Corfu Town. store page → · open in the atlas → - Medley Koukaki, Athens
A design and gift shop carrying ceramics, prints, textiles, stationery, and small objects by Greek makers. store page → · open in the atlas → - Meliartos Kolokotroni 13, Athens
All-day bakery-cafe — artisan bread, pastries, sandwiches, and coffee. The sourdough and olive bread are exceptional. store page → · open in the atlas → - Meligyris Arkalohori, Heraklion
Meligyris bottles single-flower Cretan honeys - wild and white thyme, pine, oak and chestnut, and citrus blossom - from apiaries around Arkalohori in the Heraklion hinterland. The family operation blends mountain and valley harvests with organic lines and honey-and-nut jars, shipping across Europe. store page → · open in the atlas → - Melissa Thassos Potos / Greece
Melissa is a family-run producer in Potos, Thassos selling its own raw honey, olive oil products, spoon sweets and soaps alongside its Casa di Pizza restaurant. All of its honey is unfiltered and produced from the family's own beehives. store page → · open in the atlas → - MeteoraShop (Icons Axion Esti) Kalambaka / Meteora, Greece
Icon painters at this workshop in the shadow of the Meteora rock pillars have hand-produced Byzantine icons of Christ, the Theotokos, and Orthodox saints since 1997, working in egg tempera and gold leaf according to Christian Byzantine tradition. The range runs from small pocket icons to large commissioned panels, alongside monastery products such as incense and herbal goods. store page → · open in the atlas → - Mo Vintage Athens Historic Centre, Athens
Curated designer vintage boutique on Veikou Street near the Acropoli metro, opened in 2020 by an owner known as Mo, who built the collection from years of personal collecting and travel before opening the shop. store page → · open in the atlas → - Modernon: A Retrosexual Movement Historic Centre, Athens
A store selling restored and selected twentieth-century furniture, lighting, ceramics, and decorative objects. store page → · open in the atlas → - Mon Coin Studio Monastiraki
Contemporary Greek ceramic-art gallery and shop at Thiseiou 7 in Monastiraki, Athens, founded 2017 by ceramist Eleonore Trenado-Finetis, showing handmade, collectible work by Greek makers across generations. store page → · open in the atlas → - Monastiraki Flea Market Ifestou, Athens
Sunday flea market — antiques, vintage clothing, vinyl records, military surplus, and junk treasures. The hunting is half the fun. Bargain hard. store page → · open in the atlas → - Myrto Zirini Ceramic Art Corfu Town
Ceramic artist Myrto Zirini works from a part-workshop, part-showroom on Arseniou Street in Corfu's UNESCO-listed Old Town, hand-building sculptural vessels, bowls, lamps and relief pieces. She sells the one-off works online and runs hands-on ceramic sessions, including a class making protective Medusa reliefs. store page → · open in the atlas → - Neso Studio Athens City Centre
Jewelry studio (est. around 2019) with a showroom at Praxitelous 33 in Athens and a second base in Naousa, Paros. Makes sculpted necklaces, earrings, bracelets and rings set with stones including quartz, citrine, kyanite and aquamarine - not a ceramics operation as currently described. store page → · open in the atlas → - Number 3 Historic Centre, Athens
A multi-brand fashion store carrying independent clothing, footwear, accessories, and art publications. store page → · open in the atlas → - Numismatic Museum Shop Athens / Greece
Located on the first floor of the Iliou Melathron, the Numismatic Museum's shop sells reproduction ancient Greek coins and jewelry alongside cards, notebooks, toys, and numismatics publications. It keeps the museum's own opening hours and is reachable directly through its store manager for inquiries. store page → · open in the atlas → - Oinoscent Voulis 45-47, Athens
Wine bar — 150+ Greek and international wines by the glass, cheese and charcuterie pairings. The knowledgeable sommelier makes this a wine education. store page → · open in the atlas → - Olive Wood Corfu Corfu
This Corfu workshop makes authentic handmade objects from the island's olive wood, presenting its pieces through an online Creations catalogue and offering wholesale to retailers. Olive timber's dense, marbled grain leaves each carved item individually patterned. store page → · open in the atlas → - Olympia Oil Olympia / Greece
Run by the Spiliopoulos family near Ancient Olympia since 1989, Olympia Ol produces organic extra-virgin olive oil and other Greek products. Its Drouva Street shop and online store also carry table olives, honey, herbs, and handmade soaps. store page → · open in the atlas → - Olympic Stores Stadiou 6, Athens
Greek sportswear and lifestyle brand — affordable, stylish, and distinctly Greek. The kind of local brand visitors love discovering. store page → · open in the atlas → - Onassis Shop Athens / Greece
In the ground-floor foyer of Onassis Stegi at 107-109 Syngrou Avenue, the Onassis Shop sells numbered art prints, limited-edition vinyl and CDs, and publications tied to the venue's own productions. It keeps evening hours, open Thursday through Saturday from 19:00 to 23:00 and Sunday afternoons from 13:00 to 19:00. store page → · open in the atlas → - Papagiorgis Corfu Town
Papagiorgis has made sweets in Corfu Town since 1924, and its counter on Nikiforou Theotoki runs from almond confections and tarts to house-made ice cream. Traditional Corfiot specialities, including kumquat sweets, sit alongside the pastries. store page → · open in the atlas → - Paraphernalia Historic Centre, Athens
A design shop selling furniture, lighting, tabletop objects, books, and accessories selected from independent makers. George Karras and Angela Koutroulaki opened the shop in 2014. store page → · open in the atlas → - Pilithos Ceramics Thessaloniki / Greece
Pilithos hand-throws modern, wabi-sabi-inspired stoneware, plates, mugs, vases, and lamps, from its shop and lab at 25 Stromnitsis Street in Thessaloniki's Ntepo district, open Tuesday through Saturday. Since every piece is one of a kind, customers can buy in person or through the studio's online e-shop. store page → · open in the atlas → - Pleteno Xanthi / Greece
Pleteno is a women's social cooperative in mountainous Thrace producing handwoven bags, textiles and home goods using traditional looms, macrame and natural dyes since 2019. The cooperative sells its handmade collection through its online shop and welcomes visitors daily to its space outside Xanthi. store page → · open in the atlas → - Psiri Psiri, Athens
Athens' hipster quarter — street art, live music venues, tavernas, and vintage shops. Transformed from a working-class neighbourhood to the city's coolest district. Best at night. store page → · open in the atlas → - Queen Calliope Historic Centre, Athens
A photographer-founded shop selling printed textiles, cushions, clothing, accessories, and homeware. store page → · open in the atlas → - Rebecca Camhi Gallery Athens / Greece
Housed on Leonidou Street in Athens' Metaxourgeio district, Rebecca Camhi Gallery has represented artists including Nan Goldin, Rita Ackermann, Sylvie Fleury, and Takis since its founding, alongside a rotating program of exhibitions and a gallery boutique. It is currently showing photography and paintings by Alexandros Georgiou through July 25, 2026, and is open to the public Tuesday through Saturday. store page → · open in the atlas → - Record Store by Birdman Syntagma, Athens
A compact independent vinyl shop associated with Birdman, focusing on carefully selected records. store page → · open in the atlas → - Republic Bookstore Ifaistou 19, Monastiraki, Athens
Graphic novels, art books, and design titles — Athens' best visual culture bookshop. Regular events and signings. store page → · open in the atlas → - Savapile Psirri, Athens
Savapile is a family hat workshop in Psirri, near Monastiraki, run by Lisa Sarigiannidou, who learned the trade from her father. In business since 1960, it makes handmade Greek fisherman's caps and straw hats, including custom pieces for adults and children. store page → · open in the atlas → - Seitanidis Estate (Ktima Seitanidi) Folia, Mount Pangaion, Kavala
Chemical engineer Vassilis Seitanidis and his wife, Athens-trained oenologist Haroula Tyriakidou, planted certified-organic vines on Mount Pangaion above Kavala in 1995, at roughly 300 meters elevation. Their 80-hectare estate now bottles Assyrtiko and Moschomavro alongside Cabernet Sauvignon and Viognier, including a natural orange wine. store page → · open in the atlas → - SHOP AT EMST Athens / Greece / Online
SHOP AT EMST is the official online store of the National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens, selling exhibition-linked prints, jewellery, and fashion pieces such as the 3Quarters x EMST collaboration. Current offerings include hand fans and prints tied to the museum's Earth to Earth and Voices exhibitions, with every purchase supporting the museum. store page → · open in the atlas → - The Breeder Athens / Greece
Founded in Athens in 2002 by Stathis Panagoulis and George Vamvakidis, The Breeder gallery operates out of a converted 1970s ice-cream factory at 45 Iasonos Street, open Tuesday through Saturday. Its online shop sells original works, drawings, and limited editions by gallery artists like Aristeidis Lappas and Olga Migliaressi Phoca alongside catalogues, artist books, and tote bags. store page → · open in the atlas → - The Governor Corfu
For more than a century the Dafnis family has pressed extra virgin olive oil from Corfu's centenarian 'lianolia' trees, and The Governor is their high-phenolic, early-harvest label. The estate bottles a Premium edition and a Limited early-harvest edition, both built around measurable antioxidant content. store page → · open in the atlas → - The Naxos Apothecary Kolonaki
A Greek botanical apothecary and fragrance house rooted in Naxian herbs and family pharmacy knowledge. store page → · open in the atlas → - Theotoky Estate Ropa Valley, central Corfu
Theotoky Estate farms organically in central Corfu, producing estate wines and olive oil and opening its grounds for tastings. The property also keeps a small museum and library that reflect the estate's long history. store page → · open in the atlas → - Trabala Studio Koukaki
Trabala Studio is a ceramic workshop in Athens' Koukaki neighborhood, founded by Jenny and Iraklis in 2017. They hand-throw stoneware pieces like ceramic donkeys and coffee cups, fired at up to 1280°C. store page → · open in the atlas → - Triarchy Greece
Los Angeles-based denim label founded in 2011 by siblings Adam, Ania and Mark Taubenfligel; relaunched in 2017 around organic and recycled cotton and, developed with Italian mill Candiani, natural-rubber stretch denim that replaces standard plastic-based elastane. store page → · open in the atlas → - Two Is Company Athens, Greece
Athens accessories craft — Greek handmade jewelry and leather. store page → · open in the atlas → - Zacharoplasteia Kalatzoglou Ioannina, Epirus, Greece
Kalatzoglou has made traditional Greek pastries and baklava in Ioannina as a family business since 1979, growing from a single shop under the name To Zaharoplastio to four locations across the city, including a branch in the VI.PE. Ioannina industrial zone. The business became an authorized distributor for a partner confectionery producer in 2005. store page → · open in the atlas → - Zacharoplasteio Lotsaris Patras / Greece
Lotsaris has been making Patras's sweets for decades, from syrup-soaked galaktoboureko to layered tortes and ice cream churned with fresh Greek milk. Two shops, on Plateia Georgiou and Maizonos street, keep long daily hours and take card or cash. store page → · open in the atlas → - Zeus+Dione Athens, Greece
This contemporary Greek fashion house works with domestic artisans and traditional weaving and embroidery techniques. The result is ready-to-wear and accessories rooted in Greek craft. store page → · open in the atlas → - Zindros - House of Byzantine Icons Kalambaka / Meteora, Greece
Dimitrios Zindros opened this icon workshop in a small room in Meteora in 1974, and it has since grown into one of Greece's most recognized producers of hand-copied Byzantine icons and ecclesiastical items. Its hagiographers still follow the compositional rules and egg-tempera methods of Byzantine iconography while blending in modern production techniques for church and private commissions. store page → · open in the atlas → - Zuccherino Xenokratous 15, Kolonaki, Athens
Patisserie and gelato — beautiful cakes, macarons, and ice cream. Kolonaki's sweet tooth destination. store page → · open in the atlas →