Long tube pasta layered with spiced beef ragu and a bechamel top, baked into a square slice, the Sunday-lunch plate at every Athens taverna with home cooking.
Pastitsio shares the Tselementes bechamel-codification story with moussaka and emerged in the same 1920s wave of Greek-French kitchen modernisation. The hollow bucatini-style pasta is uniquely Greek. Every mageirio in Athens, from Diporto to Karavitis and Klimataria, has a daily pastitsio in the trays. The slice with crisp bechamel top and tomato-cinnamon ragu is the canonical Athenian Sunday lunch order.
3 editor picks for Pastitsio in Athens, ranked by editorial score. All Athens signature dishes · Pastitsio across every city.
Taverna tou Oikonomou ★ 4.4
petralona · Kydantidon 32 & Troon 41, Athina 118 51, Greece
Taverna tou Oikonomou in Ano Petralona is the Athens mageirio that has cooked home-style food since 1930, with 15 to 20 daily dishes from the pan.
Karavitis Tavern ★ 4.4
pangrati · Pausaniou 4 Pangrati, Athina 11635, Greece
Karavitis in Pangrati has cooked the Athens taverna canon since 1926, a rustic room with a courtyard, barrels of house wine and the bekri-meze stew.
Klimataria ★ 4.3
psyrri · Theatrou Square 2, Athina 105 52 Greece
Klimataria on Theatre Square has poured Athens taverna food since 1927, a Psyrri institution where rebetiko plays live on most evenings from around 22:00.