Zitari is a bakery in Thessaloniki.
Zitari on Proxenou Koromila is Thessaloniki's foremost health-bakery, producing organic whole-grain loaves, seed-studded crackers, and no-added-sugar pastries. The clientele is largely residential; the bread sells out by noon.
Address: Proxenou Koromila 15, Thessaloniki 546 22
A confectionery and pastry shop on Tsimiski focused on traditional Macedonian sweets including rose and mastic loukoumi, sesame halvah, and sugar-preserved fruits. The packaging makes it one of the city's best edible souvenirs.
Floros on Mitropoleos is a neighbourhood-baker format serving the pedestrian zone: koulouri, cheese pie, spinach pie, and standard Greek pastries from 06:30 until sellout. The pies are baked in a wood oven and the crust has the right brittleness.
The only proper zacharoplasteio (pastry shop) in Ano Poli, serving the Upper Town neighbourhood with traditional sweets, Greek coffee, and a handful of tables in the warren of cobbled streets near the Byzantine walls. Opens on local rather than tourist hours.
Bantis has produced Thessaloniki's most respected cream bougatsa from a marble counter near Dikastirion Square since 1969. Phyllo baked fresh every two hours, cold pastry cream, cinnamon shaker. Opens at 06:30. The benchmark for a city that takes bougatsa seriously.
Elenidis in Panorama invented the trigona panoramatos, the crisp phyllo triangle filled with cold pastry cream that has become Thessaloniki's most iconic pastry. Three Thessaloniki locations; the Panorama original with hill views is the essential one.
Bougatsa Giannis operates on a unique schedule: open from 8pm until 3pm the following day, serving fresh cream and cheese bougatsa through the night. One of Thessaloniki's most loved late-night institutions, essential for a post-bar cream phyllo fix.
