Where is the street food in Athens actually good?
The reliable strip runs through Monastiraki and into the adjacent streets around Psyrri. Thanasis and Bairaktaris on Monastiraki Square are tourist-facing but genuinely competent souvlaki operations — the meat quality holds up. For something less theatrical, walk five minutes into Psyrri and eat standing at any hole-in-the-wall grill that has a line of locals at lunchtime; the pita wraps there cost around €2.50-3 and are assembled to order. The other dependable zone is Exarchia, particularly along Themistokleous, where you find solid bougatsa and tiropita from bakeries that have been supplying the neighborhood for decades rather than tourists. Varvakios Agora, the central meat and fish market on Athinas Street, has a handful of cheap tavernas inside that open for breakfast and early lunch serving offal dishes and grilled meats to market workers — not street food technically, but the same register of honest, unfussy eating that the street food conversation is usually trying to reach.
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