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Pastitsio is a signature dish of Greece; we have verified places to eat it in 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. Start with where to eat Pastitsio in 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 descends from the Venetian pasticcio, a baked pasta pie that reached the Ionian islands under Venetian rule, and it shares the Tselementes bechamel story with moussaka: the French-trained chef's 1920 cookbook dropped the pastry shell, put a bechamel top on the meat and pasta, and set the version every Greek kitchen now cooks. The thick hollow tube sold in Greece as pastitsio No. 2 is the pasta of choice; bucatini is the closest substitute abroad. Athens mageiria bake it in trays for the lunch crowd, and the slice with crisp bechamel top and tomato-cinnamon ragu is the canonical Athenian Sunday lunch order.
Where to eat Pastitsio in Athens: the editor picks
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