Inexpensive Thessaloniki restaurants that cook without sacrificing quality and flavor:
Bougatsa Bandis - this place serves the freshest crispy pies with cheese, spinach, meat, and cinnamon cream. The address is 33 Panagias Faneromenis, tel: +30-231-051-03-55;
Tsarouchas is a downtown restaurant serving traditional Greek cuisine. Lots of soups, seafood and fish dishes, and salads. The Thessaloniki restaurants of this format are often visited by locals. You don't need to know a foreign language to order - just point your finger at the dish in the window. The address is 78 Olympou, tel: 30-231-027-16-21;
Stratis Patisserie - this place serves excellent sweet pastries: apple cakes, layer cakes, and other goodies for which sweet tooths from all over Thessaloniki gather. Address: Ionos Dragoumi, 20, tel: 30-231-024-28-77;
Trigona Elenidis. This pastry shop is another "sweet attraction" of the city. Here they bake famous far beyond Greece Trigona cakes, crispy cups of syrup-soaked dough filled with buttercream. Thanks to this delicacy, many tourists rank the institution among the best cafes in Thessaloniki. Address: Θεμιστοκλή Σοφούλη, 15, tel: +30-231-034-49-48.
From time to time (for example, on Tuesdays) cafes in Thessaloniki cut their prices by almost half, if not more. At this time, the average check is only 10 EUR.
