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1. I love Thessaloniki because... 2. Favorite food delivery 3. Guilty pleasure 4. Shopping therapy VANGELIS LIAKOS co-founder of Beetroot
5. My secret is… 6. In the open air
1. It’s always the outsider, and yet it has the people with the best ideas. Because so much starts here, even though nothing stays in the city. Because we can easily get together here.
1. It affords you the time to work, run to the airport, take your kid out for a walk, come back home and pop out for a drink, all in a single day.
2. Verges Lagies (63 Venizelou) for country-style gourmet sandwiches like the one with pulled pork or the other with liver. 3. Gelato e Amore (44 Alexandrou Svolou), otherwise known as the Italian gelateria on Svolou: half a kilo of coconut, tiramisu or pistachio, listening to Phil Collins.
OLGA DEIKOU photographer
4. Hunting for lost treasures of all kinds at the antique and vintage stores, and haggling with the owners.
1. You can walk across the city from the side to the other in an afternoon.
5. Koulouri with feta from Giorgos and Konstantino at Proino Sou, at the start of Tsimiski.
2. The shrimp pasta from Glykanisos in Pylea (46 Megalou Alexandrou) that arrives at my door when I’m craving some really good food.
6. Cycling from Kalochori to the Axios Delta. The views of the city are simply amazing.
TOLIS KOUMPAROS owner of 2nd Floor, Tom Dixon Thessaloniki & The Trilogy House
3. The yoghurt pannacota with a white chocolate coating from Ergon Agora (42 Pavlou Mela), made by Constantinos Symeonidis. 4. Bookstores. All of them, from the small local ones to the big chains.
2. I’m obsessed with the noodles from Wen Zhou Specialties (16 Grigoriou Palama). When my sweet tooth is acting up, it’s ice cream from Moca (10 Kyrimi) or cheesecake from Bombolo (88 Mitropoleos). 3. Basque cheesecake with an Americano coffee at Tom Dixon Thessaloniki (6 Chrysostomou Smyrnis) 4. Sprucing up my wardrobe with short forays to Hionidis Mankind (32 Pavlou Mela) and sometimes to Noma (1 Aristotelous) or Grigio (51 Proxenou Koromila) 5. Dimitra’s antique shop, which recently moved (19 Alexandrou Svolou), because you’ll always find a treasure 6. Anywhere on the waterfront promenade or an excursion to Mt Hortiatis, where my parents live.
5. The little known Railway Museum (128 Monastiriou) with the Orient Express restaurant car, like something from a Wes Anderson movie. 6. The walk to Vafopoulou – a magical street, in my opinion – and then on towards Sofouli and Aretsou Beach.
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