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Shredded pastry (kataifi)
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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Eat & DrinkTaverna tou AoritiΜαιάνδρου 15, Ιλίσια, Αθήνα (Maiandrou 15, Ilisia, Athens)
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27210 89785
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210 3606220
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Χρυσοστόμου Σμύρνης 18, Καβάλα 65403
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28310 29488
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Λεωφ. Ελευθερίου Βενιζέλου 165, 171 22 Νέα Σμύρνη (Leof. Eleftheriou Venizelou 165, Nea Smyrni)
210 9333331
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BusinessLotsarisClaim this businessΓεροκωστοπούλου 23, Πλατεία Γεωργίου, Πάτρα (branch also at Μαιζώνος 124)
261 027 2555
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Παπανδρέου Ανδρέα (Αθηνών) 13 & Λαζαρίδη, 166 75 Γλυφάδα (Papandreou Andrea 13 & Lazaridi, Glyfada)
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Παπανικολή 108, Χαλάνδρι (Papanikoli 108, Chalandri)
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Μαρίκας Κοτοπούλη 10, Ομόνοια, Αθήνα (Marikas Kotopouli 10, Omonia, Athens)
210 5233637
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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.
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