When you arrive in Omonia, don’t forget to look for Loukoumades from Chania Ktistaki. They are waiting to send you to paradise with their delicious taste.
A bite-sized loukoumades that fits whole in your mouth
The one that, at the first bite, floods your mouth with delicious Cretan honey, is called Cretan. Ktistakis’ Chania loukoumades in Omonia.
And that’s when you want to scream with pleasure but you can’t!!!
The area
Omonia is my favorite area in Athens.
Next to it and all around are all the good things from the Varvakeios market (Central Municipal Athens Market) to the perfect souvlaki of Lefteris from Konstadinople.
From the small ouzo bars hidden in the arcades, such as Giotis, to the best traditional dairy shop with warm galaktoboureko in Stani.
Back in the sixties and seventies, Omonia was the center of the world…
Major newspapers circulated there, huge for the time, Lambropoulos, Minion, and of course lots and lots of people. Everyone was buzzing around it like a big beehive.
Ktistakis’ loukoumades in Chania were the meeting place for journalists, as they were next to the old offices of Kathimerini newspaper at the time.
Today, the buzz remains the same, but with a different composition, a different crowd.
Omonia is full of foreigners, tourists with phones in hand searching for the city’s secrets.
Most will taste this sulphurous loukoumades from the hands of today’s Thodoris, who has been running his grandfather Thodoris’ old business since 1912. With the same unaltered recipe he brought from Alexandria when he returned to Chania.
Loukoumades
This is a simple Cretan restaurant with a straightforward menu.
Only loukoumades!
Small bites of dough with cinnamon and sesame seeds.
No pretensions or strange toppings, ice cream, yogurt, etc.
You put them in your mouth and are greeted by an explosion of honey syrup, full of flavor, and you bow down.
Ktistakis’ loukoumades from Chania are not like the classic ones with honey on top that you have to eat hot right away.
These little bombs can be eaten cold the next day, retaining their full flavor.
Loukoumades of Chania – Ktistakis
59 Sokratous Street, Omonoia
Telephone: 210 52 40 891
