What changes when the meltemi blows
The August wind closes the terrace some nights. Here is what we cook instead.
In August the meltemi can blow for three days straight. The terrace chairs get stacked, the tablecloths go inside, and the small boats stay tied up.
If the boats have been in for two days running, we close. There is no fish, and we will not serve you fish from a freezer to keep the lights on. We put a note on this website by two in the afternoon, and a chalk sign on the door for anyone who walked.
On the first windy night, before that, the dining room is full, the kitchen is warm, and the menu turns to things that were made for this weather: kid goat from the wood oven, cuttlefish with spinach, chickpeas baked overnight in the clay pot.