Zante - Food & Drink

During a holiday in Zakynthos, you can’t miss on local food and traditional Greek dishes of the island. At Aroma of the food in Zante will draw you to Mediterranean. In Zakynthos the taverns are almost open 24 hours and waiters are quite helpful and friendly. Some of them even speak good English and that is a great advantage.

In many taverns Greek music is played with dance performances. You will like to savour local meat dishes cooked in olive oil and the local products such as honey, olive oil, cheese, goat yogurt. Spetsofai or stuffed rabbit is eaten quite a lot in Zante. The Zakynthos food is quite rich and tasty and commences with starters like melitzanosalata, the taramosalata and the tzatziki that are sauces to spread on bread and consists in aubergines, fish eggs and the last one the most popular of yogurt, cucumbers and garlic.

You would not like to relinquish meatballs of different kinds with potatoes, zucchini, or fish, oregano, Polyps is particularly cooked into wine As a starter with the main course you can have a tasty salad comprising of tomatoes, cucumbers, green peppers, onions, black olives and feta cheese all dressed with olive oil and oregano. People in Zante quite like meat dishes. People in Zakynthos cook various lamb, pork, chicken and calf dishes and served in different ways. Stuffed rabbit cooked in wine is characteristic dish of the Zakynthos.

You will be quite surprised to learn that there are more meat dishes compared to fish recipes. During holiday season you will get to eat marides and swordfish. Due to good climatic conditions vegetables are used as garnish. Main vegetable dishes include the imam aubergines the briam consisting of baked potatoes, carrots, zucchini and small tomatoes; and stuffed tomatoes and peppers with rice and tomatoes. You will find a wide variety of locals cheeses People in Zante like feta, the national cheese of Greece. It’s widely served in tavernas and restaurants. Apart from Feta, you will also get manure, the kefalotiri and the two typical cheeses of Zante - tirokafteri and ladotiri.

You can also get a chance to taste puff pastry or focacce anywhere on the Zante Island. Tyropita, a puff pastry served warm and stuffed with feta, spinach, ham, cheese and meat is quite famous. Gyros are the rolled sandwich “piadina” consisting of pork, tomatoes, onions, fried potatoes tzatziki sauce.

In Zakynthos pastry shops you can find cakes with creams, chocolate, fruit, nuts, almonds and cinnamon. Bugatsa is a superb puff pastry stuffed with cream and covered with icing sugar and a cinnamon. Coffee is an amazing drink to end your meals with. In Zante coffee is prepared in a special manner. Coffee dregs are slowly allowed to settle at bottom of the container. Coffee without sugar is called pikrò, and with sugar they call it mètrio or sweet glikò.