When I first thought of the title, Cheap Athens Restaurants, I was sure I needed to make a clarification: we’re talking cheap as in affordable and not a rip off but with good, quality food, not cheap as in a bacteria infested place with lousy food.

Based on our previous articles on this site you know we strive to do a good research and we think we did it this time as well. We’ve compiled a list of the most interesting cheap Athens restaurants out there. Here we go (the number attached to each restaurant is for easy reading, not a rank; you’re free to choose any of the below listed cheap Athens restaurants):

1. Filistron Restaurant

This small restaurant is opened daily except for Monday when the schedule starts from noon and into the evening. It is located in the Thissio neighborhood and it has a great view of the Acropolis from the rooftop. You can reach it quickly with a 10 minute walk from city center and it is very popular with locals. Not only do they offer the regular Greek dishes but they also sport a variety of vegetarian food. Not bad at all.

Site: filistron.com
Address: 23, Apostolou Pavlou str. Thission, Athens, 11851, Greece
Telephone: 210 3422897
Fax: 210 3427646
E-mail: info@filistron.com

2. Mamacas Restaurant

This cheap budget restaurant – thought not as cheap as other Athens restaurants on this list but good value for money – in Athens was named in honor of the mothers of the owners, “Mamacas” meaning “mommies”. Aside from this useless fact, the restaurant is located in the Gazi area, away from the popular and touristy Plaka neighborhood. It was dubbed as being a neo-taverna, meaning a place where one can enjoy traditional Greek food in a pleasant and relaxing manner. They pride themselves with carefully chosing their ingredients and hand cutting their fried potatoes on a daily basis. Don’t know if that has any relevance but I thought I should mention it.

Site: mamacas.gr
E-mail: mamacas@otenet.gr

3. Kostas Restaurant

This cheap restaurant is really cheap. Expect a price range between $5-10 per person for a meal. 5 Euros will probably get you two beers and two souvlakis. The restaurant is very close to the Syntagma metro station and they only sell souvlaki. One dish but they are experts in it and it is opened from 10 in the morning to 5 in the morning but the next day.

Address: 5 Pentelis, Athens, Greece
Telephone: 210 3228502

4. Ariston Restaurant

This cheap Athens restaurant specializes in snack bakery. They actually just sell warm pies made of anything you can imagine. Well, not acually anything but you get my point. It is close to the Syntagma metro station near Ermou street. This is a take-away restaurant so you’re bound to be dissapointed if you wanted to sit down but you can go to the Syntagma square and sit there if you so wish. You should expect to pay about 2 EUR for a piece of pie.

Address: Voulis 10, Athens, Greece

“I don’t like the restaurants you proposed. How do I find my own cheap Athens restaurants?”

Well, that’s easy. One way would be to head down to the Plaka neighborhood, roam through the streets and choose a half-decent place with some half decent dishes on the menu at a good price. You can take a sneak at the menus or you can just watch others and see how good what they eat looks. This is quite a barbaric method but yes, I used it. It took me 30 minutes but I found a quality restaurant on the cheap.

If you didn’t enjoy my stupid idea above, you can also roam the Internet and forums such as Lonely Planet’s Thorn Tree or TripAdvisor’s for cheap Athens restaurants or you can enquire the hotel receptionist as to where does s/he eat when s/he goes out. I did that as well and it worked fine.

This concludes our article about cheap Athens restaurants. I’m hoping you found it at least half-useful and whether you did or not we’re still expecting comments with your experiences related to cheap Athens restaurants.