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Shredded pastry (kataifi)
Where to Eat
Eat & DrinkTaverna tou AoritiMaiandrou 15, Ilisia, Athina (Maiandrou 15, Ilisia, Athens)
210 725 5699
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Recipes
- RecipeKataifi Nests with Pistachio
These individual kataifi nests are pressed into cup shapes, baked until crisp, soaked in syrup, and finished with chopped pistachios, offering a familiar Greek pastry in an open, textured form.
- RecipeKataifi with Walnuts
Kataifi with walnuts is a classic Greek syrup-soaked pastry of shredded phyllo wrapped around spiced walnuts, baked crisp and finished with sugar syrup.
Articles
- Why Kataifi Lives in the Bakery, Not the Restaurant
A verified research pass across 23 currently operating Greek businesses found that kataifi is overwhelmingly a pastry-shop item: 22 of the 23 are zaharoplasteia selling it by weight or tray, and only one is a taverna plating it as a dish. That lone exception, a feta-and-quince kataifi in Ilisia, helps prove the rule about where kataifi actually lives commercially.
Kataifi is a Greek dessert made from very thin, shredded pastry strands resembling vermicelli, wrapped or layered around a filling of chopped nuts — typically walnuts, almonds, or pistachios — then baked until golden and soaked in a sweet syrup, often flavored with cinnamon or honey. It belongs to the same family of syrup-soaked pastries as baklava and is a common offering in Greek bakeries.
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