I had an impression it was a cafeteria, but I was wrong. It was actually a restaurant/bar attached to a new hotel called, again, New. If you are an Athenian, you might understand if I say that it used to be Olympic Palace Hotel.
However, being a hotel lounge, there are also a few tables for coffee only customers. So, we were asked if we had an appointment with somebody.
We were given 3 or 4 menus. 1 is for food (and maybe there is another one for lunch), bar menu, and coffee/tea menu. Of course I checked the food menu, although we have just eaten lunch elsewhere and there was no way we could eat. The prices are of "restaurant" class. I would first try more accessible lunch menu, and only if I like it, I would try also the restaurant menu.
We ordered 1 filtered coffee and 1 cappuccino. Water was from a bottle.
For cappuccino, I could choose organic or Neapolitan (it had another name, but do not remember now). As the waitress said that the latter is stronger, I took this one. It had a surprisingly strong flavour. Definitely one of the best cappuccino I had I had in Greece.
Hubby had filtered coffee which came in a generous pot.
And together with coffee, we were offered migniardises, as if we were in a top-end restaurant (maybe we were).
Lavender Macaron. Smelled of lavender which reminded me of ... toilet deodorant. Sorry.
These metallic chocolates were really great. As I do not like chocolates in general, but eat only top quality ones, I can discern high quality chocolate pretty easily and I can tell you these were.
Decoration was a bit strange. These "woods" were made from parts from old furniture. I rather liked it.
Toilet was also elegant.
The cappuccino was 5 Euro and the filtered coffee was 4 Euro, and we were charge only 9 Euro. Nothing else.
This is the website of the hotel.
http://newhotel.athenshotels.it/
I would definitely come back to try the food at some point.
And now that I hear that some shops in Filellinon street were damaged by mobs during the recent violent episode on 19-20 October, I am somehow worried if anything happened to this nice place.
A black dog relaxing flatly.
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