Marylebone, Greek Restaurant Guide

“Modern Greek cuisine with a twist” earns consistently strong ratings for this 10-year-old in Marylebone, which is “definitely a cut above the traditional taverna”. Sibling to the more casual INO in Soho, it’s from the accomplished team behind well-known Funky Gourmet in Athens.

“Fun, vibey atmosphere and slick service” are key to the success of this upscale Greek outfit in Fitzrovia (with sister venues in Mykonos and Riyadh), which gets “loud” at busy times – perhaps “too loud”. Owned by Peter Waney, brother of Arjun (Zuma, Roka), it’s “not cheap, but the food is better than you’d think” – “fresh, light and modern”, with “imaginative twists on every dish”.

This yearling in Marylebone from the team behind nearby Opso provides an “amazing Greek fish experience” with a “great fin-to-gill ethos” – “choose one of the lovely fresh fish and it comes as a carpaccio, chargrilled head and gills (yes please!) and a fillet, again chargrilled”. In his February 2024 review, The Telegraph’s restaurant critic William Sitwell was smitten, hailing it as “a game-changer, offering some of the finest Greek food I have ever tasted”.

“Interesting Cretan regional dishes, enthusiastic waiting staff and a good vibe” are the salient features of this Fitzrovia two-year-old, named after the island’s 1905 revolution and claiming to be the first Cretan restaurant outside Greece. There’s also a “fairly priced” list of Cretan wines, many of them natural.