Where is specialty coffee in Pangrati, Athens?

Foyer Espresso Bar at Vryaxidos 2 is known for filter coffee from leading foreign roasters and opens 07:00–19:00 on weekdays. Kross Coffee Roasters, founded in Chania in 2013, runs a Pangrati café open 08:00–17:00 daily, Motiv has a café at Formionos 42–44, and KUDU has a coffee shop on Plateia Pangratiou.

Which Pangrati cafés in Athens open early or stay open late?

Bibelo Cafe Bistro at Manolidi 20 opens at 05:00 every day, and Alegio at Ymittou 40 is open 24 hours. Το Λούβρον at Eratosthenous 6 stays open until 02:00, or 02:30 on Wednesdays, Πάπια on Aftomedontos until 01:00, and Acapus on Agiou Fanouriou runs 18:00–02:00.

Cafés in Pangrati, Athens: Hours and Map

Q: How do you get to Pangrati in Athens by public transport?

Evangelismos station on metro Line 3 is the closest to Pangrati, and trolleybuses 2, 4 and 11 run through the district. Plateia Plastira is a stop on all three trolleybus networks and on local bus routes. The National Garden is a few minutes’ walk from Pangrati’s western edge.

Pangrati (Παγκράτι) takes its name from an ancient sanctuary of Herakles Pankrates, the all-powerful. It runs from Vasilissis Sofias and Vasileos Konstantinou avenues east toward Hymettus and takes in the Panathenaic Stadium, where the first modern Olympics were held in 1896, and the First Cemetery of Athens.¹ About 35,000 people live here.¹

In 2022 Time Out placed it 39th on its list of the world’s 51 coolest neighborhoods, describing a district long overlooked by tourists that had become a draw for creative people, with bars and artisanal restaurants.² Formionos and Ymittou have the most cafés, with Eratosthenous next.

Local tip: Ask what filter coffee is on at Foyer Espresso Bar on Vryaxidos, which often stocks rare varieties from foreign roasters; it opens at 07:00 on weekdays.³

At a glance

103Cafés listed

9With opening hours

05:00Earliest opening

02:30Latest closing

Opens earliest: Bibelo Cafe Bistro, from 05:00 (Daily 05:00–23:00).

Closes latest: Το Λούβρον, until 02:30 (Mon–Tue 09:30–02:00 · Wed 09:30–02:30 · Thu–Sun 09:30–02:00).

Most listed streets: Ερατοσθένους (2).

Most common features: outdoor seating (10%), specialty (6%), wi-fi (5%).

Getting to Pangrati

Evangelismos station on Line 3 is the nearest metro, and trolleybuses 2, 4 and 11 cross the district. Plateia Plastira is a stop on all three trolleybus networks as well as local bus routes.¹ The National Garden is a few minutes’ walk from the western edge, and a Pangrati station on Imittou Street has been suggested for a later section of Line 4.¹

Squares and the Goulandris museum

Squares organize the neighborhood. Plateia Varnava, behind the Kallimarmaro, as the marble Panathenaic Stadium is known, has restaurants and tavernas around it, and Agios Spyridon square holds the Goulandris Museum of Contemporary Art.¹ Time Out sent readers to the Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation for its Picasso, Miró and Van Gogh, and to Timotheou Street for drinks.²

The museum’s café-restaurant is at Eratosthenous 13, and on Timotheou, Ohana bar & coffee and Το Κουνούπι (To Kounoúpi, the mosquito) share no. 7. On the squares themselves, Βαρνάβα Cafe and t & toggs face Plateia Varnava, and Posto is on Plateia Plastira.

The district’s edge has moved over time: its eastern limit was once the slopes of Hymettus, pushed outward between the wars, and in the 2010s it became a hipster destination as house prices rose.¹

Formionos Street

Formionos has one of the district’s longest runs of cafés: Books & Beans at no. 2A, VA John’s at no. 11, People’s at no. 43 and Τσέρι at no. 76, with Honest Coffee Developers, which has Wi-Fi and outdoor tables, along the same street. Το καφενεδάκι, a small kafeneío, is at Formionos 92.

Roasters and espresso bars

Foyer Espresso Bar, at Vryaxidos 2, is known for filter coffee and works with leading foreign roasters, often bringing in rare varieties; it opens 07:00–19:00 on weekdays and 08:00–18:00 at weekends.³ Motiv, which roasts all of its own coffee, has a second café at Formionos 42–44.⁴

Kross Coffee Roasters was founded in Chania, Crete, in 2013 by the brothers Sotos and Stavros Michael, and its Pangrati café opens 08:00–17:00 daily.⁵ KUDU Coffee Shop, on Plateia Pangratiou, belongs to Kudu Coffee Roasters of Neo Psychiko, which runs cupping and brewing classes.⁶

Hours, from 05:00 to 02:30

Bibelo Cafe Bistro at Manolidi 20 opens at 05:00 every day, and Alegio at Ymittou 40 never closes. At the other end of the day, Το Λούβρον (To Loúvron) at Eratosthenous 6 stays open until 02:00, and 02:30 on Wednesdays; Πάπια (Pápia, duck) at Aftomedontos 4 runs to 01:00, and Acapus on Agiou Fanouriou opens only at 18:00 and closes at 02:00.

Cafés in Pangrati

At a glance

Acapus

Alegio

Bibelo Cafe Bistro

Foyer Espresso Bar

Millybird

Ohh Boy

Το Λούβρον

Πάπια

4m

Abstract

Alegria Cafe

Antico Greco

Aroma Empire Cafe Καισαριανή

Avanti

B&E Goulandris Café-Restaurant

Black Bear

Books & Beans

Caffe Luigi

Coffee Botany

Coffee Rocks

Coterie & Bro

Dico Cafe

Eagle Specialty Coffee

Fabrica de Cafe

Fixers Coffee

Flaws

Friend

G n' B

Galla Gastro Bar

Hillside

Hippy3

Honest Coffee Developers

Imprint coffee

Just Allegro

K Roastery

KUDU Coffee Shop Pagrati

Coffee chains in Pangrati

Coffee Island

Il Toto

Coffee Lab

Cultivos Coffee

Cupaki

Baristi

Bourbon Specialty Coffees

Getting to Pangrati

Squares and the Goulandris museum

Formionos Street

Roasters and espresso bars

Hours, from 05:00 to 02:30

Sources

More of Athens

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Thiseio & Petralona

Syntagma & Plaka

Koukaki & Makrygianni

Exarchia

Kolonaki

Kypseli

Pangrati cafés: questions

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