Karabani Restaurant (see above too)is next to the old Kypseli Laiki market on the corner of Fokionos Negri and Zakynthos street in a basement where you can eat, drink and listen to rembetika-laika singers and bouzouki players like Giannis Lempesis on Friday-Saturday nights and all day Sunday. Traditional Greek food.Ĭall for days and hours. Prices for food are at normal taverna levels so you don't have to go broke eating, drinking and listening to good music. Or if you take the 2, 4 or 9 trolley and get off at Platia Kypseli you can walk down it is on the left on the corner of Zakynthou Street. Its easy to find if you walk up Fokionos Negri from Patission, its the street after the old market on the right. The club is open on Friday and Saturday nights with the music beginning around 11pm and they have a Sunday Matinee starting at about 1pm with a special price of 20 euros for food, wine andĮntertainment. Lempesis and Golis are old style rembetika singers and bouzouki players, of the same generation as Babis Tsertos, in fact they used to play together, with a dozen or so albums to their credit. Musicians in Athens change clubs from season to season so you never know who is playing where unless you check the weekly Athinorama magazine. Lempesis and his excellent group or Babis Golis. The club is called Karabani and features musicians like Giannis One gem of a rembetika club that few people know about is in the neighborhood of Kypseli, right off Fokionos Negri, a pedestrianized avenue that is like a long narrow park that starts down by Patission street about a half mile beyond the National Museum. There is usually good music going on there in the afternoon. In the daytime go to Kapni Karea Cafe which is between Metropolis and Ermou Streets in this little alley a block down from the small church of Kapni Karea in the Many places close in Athens when the weather gets warm but Stoa Athanaton in the Central Market of Athens (in the meat section) is one of the best places to hear authentic rembetika. Read Claire Bostock's review of Rembetiko Club Astrofeggiaīurned down during the winter of 2005 but is probably up and Taxidi Stin Anatoli: Kypselis 31 and Sporadon in Kypseli has live laika and rembetika Thurs-Sat and a Sunday matinee. PONTIKI: 9 Eptanisou and Androu, near Platia Agios Giorgiou in Kypseli has live rembetika and laika and traditional food Thurs-Sun. 210ġ9 in the Athens Central Meat Market. Old time Rembetika singers including Babis Tsertos has played here in the past. Ippokratous Street, Excarchia, Athens - tel:Ģ10 6424937 Authentic rembetika by Pavlos See also my page forĪre my favorite type of clubs. Many of theseĬlubs are closed in the summer so call first. Special events like touring musical groups. It is in Greek though.Ĭheck also Athens version of Time-Out and the Athens News for You can also find club info in the Athenorama
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Make sure they still exist and if they don't, or if you know Is a listing of some of the different clubs.ĭorian Kokas and Michalis Orphanides, twoĬompile this list and told me their favorite Than you will in Athens with the majority of the nightlife being You won'tįind more restaurants, bars, discos and clubs in a smaller area Imagine what it would be like without the crisis. One thing is for certain. Of Athens rivals that of New York, London and Paris and maybe They say even during the economic crisis the nightlife Nightlife in Athens, Greece: Clubs, Bars, Pubs, Discos, Live Music, DJs, Rembetika, Jazz, Latin and Gay