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KOSTARELOS Cheese Deli

Cheese shop·Kolonaki·€€

Cheese since 1937

The Markopoulo cheesemakers’ Kolonaki deli: their own barrel feta, aged cheeses, tastings

A KOSTARELOS cheese shop at dusk, its door open on the shelves inside — Photo Credit
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A board of Greek cheeses from KOSTARELOS — Photo Credit
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Cheese pies with feta and fresh cheese on wooden boards — Photo Credit
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A toasted sandwich with cheese, served at a KOSTARELOS cheese bar — Photo Credit
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Long cheese counter and stocked shelves inside a KOSTARELOS shop — Photo Credit
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Inside the shop at KOSTARELOS Cheese Deli — Photo Credit
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About KOSTARELOS Cheese Deli

KOSTARELOS began in 1937, when Kyriakos Kostarelos made cheese and yoghurt from his own flock in Markopoulo, and three generations on the family still produces, matures and selects its cheeses. The Kolonaki shop on Patriarchou Ioakim is the place to meet them: the barrel-aged feta, the matured hard cheeses and a well-chosen line of cheeses from Greece and abroad, all offered to taste before you buy. The family’s pies, made around their own cheeses, are worth picking up too. Cheese tastings can be arranged with the shop. Our advice: taste the barrel feta beside a younger one, and you will never buy plastic-tub feta again.