Ekmek Kataifi appears as a signature dish in 1 Greece cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Ekmek Kataifi · Thessaloniki
A multi-layer dessert of shredded wheat pastry soaked in sugar syrup, topped with cold custard cream, and finished with whipped cream and cinnamon.
Ekmek kataifi entered Thessaloniki's pastry shops via the Ottoman bakery tradition and was preserved by Greek Orthodox zacharoplasteia after 1912. The multiple-textured format with crisp pastry base, syrup-soaked layer, cold custard middle, and cream top requires more skill than any other Greek pastry.
Where to eat in Thessaloniki:
- Terkenlis 1948
- Charalampos Patisserie
- Floros
- Trigona Elenidis Centre