Late-night cafés in Athens

Until 03:00 on Fokionos Negri

Kypseli’s pedestrian street keeps late hours: Foka+Negra at Fokionos Negri 32 and Soulatso at no. 34 are open 08:00–03:00 every day, and Scry Café runs until 02:00 from Monday to Saturday. BAR CAFE KORCA, on Nordaou, opens 08:00–01:00.

Near the municipal market, Orfeas, where local artists often perform, stays open until 02:00; Time Out notes that there is sometimes a small door fee.¹

After midnight in Exarchia, Pangrati and Koukaki

Warehouse, at Valtetsiou 21, closes at 02:30 every night. In Pangrati, Το Λούβρον keeps Eratosthenous lit until 02:00, half an hour longer on Wednesdays, and Acapus on Agiou Fanouriou is an evening-only café, 18:00 to 02:00.

In Koukaki, Τέρας on Theodoritou Vresthenis serves until 02:00, and Neratzia Café Bistro on Zan Moreas does the same on Fridays and Saturdays. In Psyrri, kalimeres on Taki keeps going until 02:00. Further east in Ilisia, Lot51, a specialty café and cocktail bar founded in 2018, opens at 07:00 on weekdays and stays open until 03:00 on Fridays and Saturdays.⁴

Until 03:00 and later, further out

Some of the latest hours are just outside the old center. Cartone, on Persefonis in Kerameikos, is open 09:00–04:00 daily, and The Place by COCO-MAT.bike on Sofroniou runs until 03:00. In Ampelokipoi, Metropolis on Larisis and Warehouse 35 on Panormou also close at 03:00, as does myhood on Panormou from Monday to Saturday; in Vyronas, Boomerang on Karaoli Dimitriou does the same.

Some kafeneía turn musical at night. Καφενείο Μόκα on Kallidromiou has weekend sets by local groups, rebetiko among them, and Καφενείο Ναυαρίνου in Exarchia moves from beer and nuts at midday to rock in the evening.³ Καφενείο Sabir, on Plataion in Kerameikos, opens at 18:00 on weekdays and stays open until 02:30 on Fridays and Saturdays.

Open around the clock

For coffee at 04:00, the 24-hour counters include Kiosky’s at Patision 131 and Yes at Patision 107 in Kypseli, Memo’s House on Stournari and Δυναστεία on Alexandras in Exarchia, Alegio on Ymittou in Pangrati, Pilot on Andrea Syngrou and Tekafe on Thessalonikis in Petralona.

Getting home by metro

On Friday and Saturday nights, metro Lines 2 and 3 run later: since 1 November 2024 the last trains leave Syntagma in every direction at 02:00, reaching the end of the lines between 02:14 and 02:22.⁵ Line 1, the Piraeus–Kifissia line through Thiseio and Petralona, is not part of the extension.⁵