Ypsilon is a cafe in Thessaloniki.
Ypsilon occupies a restored 1868 neoclassical building near Aristotelous Square, splitting its programme between a smoke-free morning coffee room and an evening floor for cocktails and craft beer. Specialty espresso and pour-overs by day, signature cocktails after sundown, with a rotating art and DJ programme that landed it on global hottest-new-cafes lists.
Address: Edessis 5, Thessaloniki 546 25
The original Elenidis patisserie in Panorama is where the trigona panoramatos was invented: a crisp phyllo triangle filled with cold pastry cream. Coffee here is secondary but the ritual of eating a warm trigona at the marble counter with a mountain view is essential Thessaloniki.
Bantis has produced Thessaloniki's cream bougatsa from a marble counter near Dikastirion Square since 1969. The phyllo is baked fresh every two hours, the cream is cold, and cinnamon arrives in a shaker. Coffee is decent Greek-filter. Opens at 06:30.
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