George L.
Google
Last night at Tudor Hall I went for the degustation with pairing and it felt less like “a dinner” and more like a perfectly edited short film: Athens on the horizon, lights low, service gliding, and every course landing with purpose.
The food is Michelin-level technical, but what impressed me most is that it never hides behind technique. It’s clean, confident, and properly delicious.
• Corn salad / chorizo / corn foam: sweet–smoky–spicy, with a foam that tastes like summer, not like a trick.
• Smoked eel tartare / pickled cucumber: silky smoke snapped into focus by bright acidity and crunch.
• Tarama / kombu jam / caper: deep umami, sharp salt, and that addictive “one more spoon” tension.
• Chicken beignet & deconstructed tzatziki: comfort food wearing a tailored suit—crispy, airy, and refreshing in layers.
• Semi-cured bonito / Aegina pistachio sauce / pear: my highlight—sea depth, nutty richness, then a clean fruity lift that keeps it elegant.
• Balik salmon tartare / cauliflower bavarois / sake veil / horseradish “emotion”: delicate, precise, and then—boom—horseradish as a perfectly timed spark, not aggression.
And the pairing? That’s where the experience takes off. Each glass doesn’t just “match” the dish it reframes it: smoke becomes cleaner, salinity becomes more crystalline, spice becomes silkier.
You finish courses thinking, this dish just became more itself.
If there’s such a thing as the most complete 1★ experience in Greece, Tudor Hall is right in that conversation: warm, sharp, inspired—and effortlessly high-end.