Pastitsio appears as a signature dish in 1 Greece cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Pastitsio · Athens
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.
Where to eat in Athens:
- Taverna tou Oikonomou
- Klimataria
- Karavitis Tavern