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Tsipouradika of Volos and Nea Ionia |
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The "tsipouradika" have a history that starts from the beginnings of the previous century.
From earlier times, when everything was more pure and authentic, when all the habitants of the region where the members of a big company, tsipouradika where the meeting point to spend their beautiful but many times filled with grief lives.
At the port as well as at the neighbors of the city, where the meeting place of the locals was, it continues now to be the necessary place that the today's visitor will visit.
The live tradition of the area that used to be a small ceremony has turned in our days to an institution and has been especially loved by the friend visitors.
Whoever comes to Volos and meets at close quarters the unique atmosphere of tsipouradika is sure that will come again and again.
The whole habit started from the refugees of Asia Minor that had settled down in Volos and especially from those who worked in the harbor.
After finishing their jobs in noon, they were collected at the time at the coffee houses of the port to drink their tsipouro, which at the most cases was accompanied by appetizers in small plates, a habit that continues until today.
By the years, the habit of the noon meeting at the tsipouradika of the port with the sea appetizers became a way of living for the workers of Volos, as well. Slowly, the companies were becoming bigger and bigger, the appetizers richer and more sophisticated, but the whole process always kept its authenticity.
The tsipouradika of the area were established and became by the years the meeting place of the habitants of Volos, not only at noon.
The fame of the tsipouradika was spread at the wider area, later at the whole Greece and it didn't take long to be known even abroad. All the visitors of Volos (Greek and foreign tourists) will come by to meet at close quarters the famous tsipouradika, while most of them will become their fanatic frequenters.
The secret of their success is hidden in the authenticity of the offered appetizers, at their endless variety (with every new order the appetizers are different and for sure when you leave you won't have tasted all of them) and at the pure tsipouro.
Taste has the first role, but if you try to learn the recipes you will probably get no answer, as the secrets of their cooking are discovered only to those that wish to continue the tradition.
Guide for the tsipouradiko
Volos and Nea Ionia are famous for the many wonderful traditional tsipouradika that offer excellent and tasty appetizers with the consumption of tsipouro.
Pleasures for noon and evening...
Tsipouradika are open during noon and evening, except for some ones that are open only at noon. It is worth searching them.
Meet the whole ceremony
1. You never order at a tsipouradiko. You just show with your hand how many tsipoura you want (which are as many as the people of the company).
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The appetizer is the waiter's responsibility. You don't interfere. The usual fish appetizers and the different other appetizers from broiled potato and eggplant to ramekin accompany every tsipouro order.
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Delicious tsipouro appetizers that are served:
Octopus, pickles, eggplant, potato-salad, tuner-salad, marinated anchovy, octopus-balls, anchovy in vineyard leaves, mussels, mussels risotto, crabs, cockles, μπρεσκοουρές, grilled potato, salted fish, mackerel, sardine, fried devilfish, smoked mackerel, stuffed squid, shrimps ramekin, seafood skewer, cuttlefish broiled with garlic, beetroots salad with garlic sauce and walnuts, crayfishes etc.
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In every new order, the appetizer changes (No one has ever managed to taste all the appetizers of a tsipouradiko).
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The bottles of the 25s stay on the table until you leave, no matter how many they are in number.
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A splurge
That's how you'll order the entire tsipouro bottle
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Select appetizers
They usually arrive late. Bladders, μπρεσκοουρές, octopus ink sauti in butter.
Live the magic and the pleasure of the tastes at the tsipouradika of Volos and N. Ionia.
They besot the locals and the visitors with their fascinating appetizers and the wonderful seafood compositions, where each of them is more delicious than the others.
They create unique moments that bring you closer and closer. The appetizers are memorable to every visitor.
Every tsipouradiko has something different to propose you. The seafood appetizers however are honoured at almost all the tsipouradika. The way of firing and serve is different from tsipouradiko to tsipouradiko.
The traditional appetizers (sleeve fishes, crayfishes, shrimps, mussels, clams, octopus, sardines, devilfish, μπρεσκοουρές, mullets, crabs, cockles, lobster, bonito etc.) accompanied by the 25 tsipouro will satisfy even the most demanding ones.
How can anyone resist to taste shrimps ramekin, mussel ramekin, steam mussels, mussel risotto, shrimp salad, stuffed sleeve fish, grilled potatoes, grilled or fried shrimps, and so many other appetizers that is impossible to describe all, when they are cooked by the original traditional recopies. |
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