Santorini Food and Wine Tour

One of the best activities to add to your Santorini itinerary is to attend a food and wine tour. You will benefit a lot from this tour as you will be walked through to the different places in Santorini (historical and modern) where you'll find the best set of local food! Some travel companies would offer you a 6-hour-long food trip around the island. This includes your transportation, tour fee, and the appetizing lunch/snack and sometimes even dinner of the day. You may also opt for a cooking class with some tour organizers. If you want to know more about how you can explore and taste Santorini at the same time, join us today in our short food trip in Santorini, Greece!

This lovely lunch setup couldn't wait for you any longer!

Joining a food tour is not just enjoyable because of the perks of tasting the local cuisine but also, you'll get to know more about the culture and history of the place you are visiting. Food is part of everyone's culture. In Santorini, they have an abundant source of raw food/seafood that they turn into tempting dishes thru their passion. Moving forward, a typical food and wine tour would cost you, at least, 150€ per person if you will be joining a small group of 8 persons according to Santorini Wine Adventure. Their offer includes a visit to two popular wineries in Santorini. Now, you can look for other tour coordinators who can provide you a cheaper rate with a super awesome travel deal, really, it's up to you if you want to call for a sole food trip or a wine tour instead.

The 1800 Restaurant in Oia is not that hard to reach and find if you are traveling solo.

Now if you want to go solo, it's okay to ditch the group tour and chase the aroma of Greek cuisine being slain in the kitchen of  various Santorini restaurants. Going after the authentic Santorinian dishes won't fail you. In fact, you can check out a fine dining place located on a mountaintop in Oia called The 1800 Restaurant. Known as one of the best restaurants in Oia and Santorini as a whole, you can't blame why many visitors are glad to have their happy dining here! Aside from the delectable Greek menu they serve, The 1800 Restaurant offers you a magnificent view of Santorini's Caldera. Make sure to grab your seat in their roof garden to secure a sunset spot as well.

Roof Garden, 1800 Restaurant in Oia, Santorini

Whether you'll join a group food and wine tour or will go solo to chase the delicious traditional foods in Santorini, you will have the best time of your life here! Be sure to make a lot of room for food as Santorini will prep and serve you only tasty, fresh, and healthy dishes!

A unique Restaurant in Oia - Visit it and enjoy the delicious food and the great Santorinian architecture

If you are looking for your summer destination, then Santorini is probably one of the best choices that you can make as it has everything: great beaches, breathtaking view and night life, while you will find many nice Santorini Restaurants to enjoy the Greek specialties. Once you are there, it is a must to visit the village of Oia, at the edge of the island. There, you will enjoy a place with great history and you will get the chance to admire the beautiful white houses. At the end of your going around you should definitely visit the 1800 Restaurant in Oia, which is a place that combines a view at the great history of the village, delicious meals and amazing landscape.

Oia Santorini

Taking a closer look to Oia, its history goes all the way back to Venetian rule. However, there have also been several reports about it even before it. Since the 16th century the name used for it was Apanomeria, while the name “Castelli San Nicholas’’ was also used by Jean de Thevenot in the mid-17th century. From the 19th century it gained the name that remains even today, while it started flourishing mostly due to seaborne trading throughout the whole Mediterranean Sea. This economic rise, gave the chance to the captains of Oia to build magnificent mansions right on the cliff. The most challenging part while building them was the procedure of moving all the required materials on this rough ground. While there, except for those fancy neoclassic mansions you will also notice some cave houses; they were used by the crew of the ships and they were built directly into niches. Altogether, the best part of those houses is how they blend together with the small narrow streets and the blue roofed churches. The result is amazing and you will lose the track of time very easily as you will feel like taking a walk straight into a different era.

Santorini, Oia

Once you feel tired or hungry (or maybe both), you should visit the 1800 Restaurant. It is undeniably the best Restaurant in Oia, in terms of combining the view and the gourmet cuisine with a pinch of Oia’s history. The building of the Restaurant is a former captain’s mansion built all the way back to 18th century and recently restored – that is actually where  it got its name from. 

1800 Restaurant in Oia Santorini

It also has a roof garden which is probably the best place to sit once the sun s down, as you will feel relaxed from all the heat and sun of the day and you will enjoy the spectacular view of the Aegean Sea. Regarding the courses, just choose whatever you are in mood of eating as it will for sure be good – it has actually won many awards for its delicious cuisine. If you take all those facts together, you can understand why it  is considered one of the best Santorini Restaurants and why you should not neglect dining there at least once.

As a conclusion, in the end of your trip in Santorini, you will realize yourself that there countless reasons why it is considered one of the top destinations. The Santorini Restaurants will take good care of your appetite for good Greek food, while the local landscape and architecture will for sure not let you down. And most likely visiting Oia, a walk and a dinner in the best Restaurant in Oia will be the highlight of your summer vacation.

Travel around Oia Santorini lavishly

Aspect of the island sequence the Cyclades, Santorini Island is most well known globally for its still prevailing springtime of gushing lava that last thrown in 1956 providing on across the panel decimations to the island amazing building design that had gone once again to the 18th millennium. These days the well of lava is not suggesting at any ejecting and the island has fixed and come to be all the more charming than it was a while lately.

Santorini, Greece

Santorini is an awesome little island with a sum range of just 96 square miles with vast most of the most crucial guest finishes and the Santorini studios identified in the towns specked around isle on enormous actual hills with falls exceeding two hundred metres much of enough time. So as to get a full energy about what the island of Santorini needs to provide there are various boat trips which happen all around the tourist year.

View of Santorini at Dusk

The lavish Santorini apartments and studios have information about the trips and can set up reservations for guests while they are remaining there. In general, these trips middle sail around the destructing well of lava and allow us to have close look in the hot rises of Palea Kameni coast and nearby islands such as Thirassia. Many of the trips keep going between three and eight times and several integrate a stop off for a community Ancient dinner and allow individuals the opportunity to be dropped off on a different portion of the island allowing them to make their route over to their Santorini studios overland.

Relaxing moments at the Strogili Apartments in Oia Santorini

Within the Santorini Island, there are a number of beautiful villages present. And one of those beautiful villages is known as Oia, which is extremely famous across the entire world for its mind-blowing beauty. There are thousands of vacationers found in the Oia Santorini every summer, who really each and everything about this island. And the factor that pleases the vacationers most is the Oia Santorini accommodation. The Oia hotels and apartments are built in such a way so that the visitors feel like they are staying in their home. The lavishly designed and decorated Oia Santorini Hotels offer their vacationers numerous stupefying facilities like fully air-conditioned rooms, personal bathrooms with high quality luxury fittings, LCD TV, free internet access, balcony with an amazing view of the Aegean, extremely mouth-watering cuisines and many more.

Pool side of the lavish Strogili Traditional Houses

The Strogili Traditional Houses is also one of these amazing Oia Santorini Hotels. Perhaps a bit better than mentioned above since the amazing facilities that you would be going to have staying in this hotel might blow your mind up. The ‘Strogili Traditional Houses’ provides extremely well equipped apartments along with daily maid service, linen and towel change every 2 days, car & motorbike rentals, boat rentals, transfer from/to the airport, wake-up call services and many more.

Staying in the Strogili Traditional Houses is simply commendable. So, book your reservations today.

Vacationing in Santorini like never before

‘Santorini’; a famous Greek island located just approximately 120 miles away from the mainland of Greece towards the southeast direction. The Santorini Island is a member of the Cyclades group of islands and is located in the southern face of the beautiful and mind-blowing Aegean Sea. The Island of Santorini is known as one of the most beautiful islands present in the whole of Greece and the presence of thousands of tourists in this island every summer is a strong proof of it.

The beautiful Santorini

Although Santorini is currently leading at the top being the most beautiful island amongst all other islands in Greece, it also has an astonishing past history which relates to an immense volcanic explosion which has destroyed all the past settlements which used to be on that place someday. Today, whatever Santorini has is what remained after that immense explosion. Currently, the Santorini Island cover up to around 28 square miles of land mass with an approximate number of 16,000 inhabitants.

1800 Floga Restaurant in Oia Santorini

If you are now on a leave and planning to go somewhere cool and serene with your family, friends or alone, Santorini would be simply matchless. To be more particular, you would also love to visit Oia, since it has all the amenities to provide to its vacationers. The island of Santorini is basically divided up into a number of villages. The villages that have united together to make the island of Santorini are all beautiful even though not all the villages are as famous as Oia. The main reason of Oia being so famous is its eye-catching and serene natural beauty, outstanding beach of the Aegean and the pleasing hospitality provided by the lavish Oia Santorini hotels, studios and suites.

An amazing dining spot in the Oia Santorini

Besides all of these, the island is also famous for its first-rate restaurant in Oia. So far, there are more than two thousands businesses of restaurants established in the Santorini Island, serving extremely mouth-watering cuisines all the way through to the vacationers. Some of the best Santorini restaurants are Al Fresco Pizza+Pasta, Liver Bird Café, Katharo’s Lounge, Metaxi Mas, Armenistis Tavern, Aegialos, The Magic Bus and many more. All of these amazing restaurants serve the best multi-national cuisines as well as the Greek, which would surely make you feel like being in heaven while taking each and every mouthful of those recipes.

Other than these, there is another supreme restaurant located in the Oia Santorini, which serves the best quality foods with amazing and heavenly tastes. The restaurant is known as the 1800 Restaurant located in the Oia village of Santorini. This is a big restaurant with a numerous number of cuisines served including most of the famous international cuisines. Another amazing specialty about the 1800 Restaurant is that, no matter whether you are a food lover or not, you would surely be attracted as well as bound to love this place because of its amazingly designed structure.

The 1800 Restaurant has a lot more things to make you pleased and amazed. It has an astounding wine cellar where you would be able to enjoy your drink to the fullest. Moreover, at the very top of the restaurant building, a roof garden has been constructed. This roof garden allows the visitors to have the most amazing view of the beautiful Oia Santorini.

Are you still confused about whether or not you should visit Oia Santorini? I guess not.