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Local Food and Dishes
Folegandros offers many excellent local flavours in the taverns in Hora and Ano Meria.
Souroto, a fresh, soft white cheese usually served with tomato salad is one of the most famous products of Folegandros. The typical Folegandros cheese pie called kalasouna is made with souroto and onions. Folegandros also produces another type of hard cheese – the locals just call it tyri, meaning… cheese (!) - which is eaten as a snack or grated on top of pasta dishes.
You can also try matsata (traditional homemade spaghetti served with chicken or rabbit in red sauce), cooked capers (kappari magirefti), oven-cooked chickpeas (revithia fournou), karavolous (snails), karpouzenia (sweet pie with watermelon, honey and sesame), pasteli (sesame sweet) made by the traditional workshop in Ano Meria, and Folegandos honey.
You will also find other local produce in many restaurants: local pork and kid meat, local tomatoes and cucumbers (cultivated with a minimum of water).
In many restaurants you can find yet more local produce:
local meat - pork and goat
tomatoes and cucumber (literally grown without water having an excellent flavour)
seafood in the port (lobster and freshly caught fish)
Suggestions:
Souroto, a fresh, soft white cheese usually served with tomato salad is one of the most famous products of Folegandros. The typical Folegandros cheese pie called kalasouna is made with souroto and onions. Folegandros also produces another type of hard cheese – the locals just call it tyri, meaning… cheese (!) - which is eaten as a snack or grated on top of pasta dishes.
You can also try matsata (traditional homemade spaghetti served with chicken or rabbit in red sauce), cooked capers (kappari magirefti), oven-cooked chickpeas (revithia fournou), karavolous (snails), karpouzenia (sweet pie with watermelon, honey and sesame), pasteli (sesame sweet) made by the traditional workshop in Ano Meria, and Folegandos honey.
You will also find other local produce in many restaurants: local pork and kid meat, local tomatoes and cucumbers (cultivated with a minimum of water).
In many restaurants you can find yet more local produce:
local meat - pork and goat
tomatoes and cucumber (literally grown without water having an excellent flavour)
seafood in the port (lobster and freshly caught fish)
Suggestions:
- Eva's Garden - In Chora Alkis will cook clever gourmet dishes for you
- Melissa - Matsata (spaghetti dish) and good home cooking
- Kritikos - Famous for its grilled meats (just by the church of Theoskepastis)
- Sik - In the Kontarini Square "unusual dishes" and pies
- Mimis - Family-run taverna in Ano Meria with typical traditional plates
- Pasithea - Family-run taverna with wonderful panoramic view of Agali
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