Where do locals actually go for aperitivo in Santorini?

Santorini doesn't have a strong aperitivo culture the way Italian cities do, and I'd be doing you a disservice by inventing bar names and neighborhoods to fill that frame. What locals actually do before dinner is closer to a Greek version of the ritual: a round of tsipouro or ouzo with small mezedes at a kafeneion or psistaria, usually in the inland villages like Pyrgos or Megalochori rather than along the caldera rim. The caldera-view bars in Oia and Fira are priced for tourists and largely avoided by working islanders. If you want to drink alongside actual Santorinians as the day cools, walk into Pyrgos around 7 p.m. and sit at whatever kafeneion has the old men out front. Order tsipouro and ask for whatever they're eating. That's the real version of the hour.

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