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Aleria
Restaurant, modern Greek · Megalou Alexandrou 57, Metaxourgeio
A restored neoclassical in Metaxourgeio with one of the best courtyards in Athens. No Michelin star, and it does not need one to be worth the drive.
Commercial relationship
None. LivingTheta has no commercial relationship with Aleria and receives nothing from it.
- What it is
- Restaurant, modern Greek
- Michelin
- No star Aleria does not appear on the standing Athens star list. It is here on its own merits, not on an award.
- Where
- Megalou Alexandrou 57, Metaxourgeio
- Open since
- 2006
- Chef
- Gikas Xenakis Roughly a decade at the helm, per trade coverage of April 2026.
- The courtyard
- Stone-flagged, under climbing plants
- Menus
- Two tasting menus
- Phone
- +30 210 522 2633
- Distance
- About 11 km from Elliniko Straight-line. No authority publishes journey times for these routes; by road it is longer, and in traffic considerably longer.
Aleria has occupied a restored neoclassical building in Metaxourgeio since 2006. The courtyard — stone-flagged, walled, planted, with the old house rising around it — is the reason most people come, and Gikas Xenakis has led the kitchen for around a decade.
No star, and that is not a caveat
Aleria does not appear on the standing Athens Michelin list. Everything else on this page except one room does, so we are stating it plainly rather than letting proximity do the work.
What it has instead is duration. Holding a serious reputation for two decades in the same building, in a neighbourhood that has changed around it twice, is a form of evidence that no single inspection produces.
What a household on the coast gets out of it
A courtyard. That is the honest answer. The Riviera has an unlimited supply of sea and almost no walled gardens, and this is one of the best of them — the same reason Soil in Pangrati is on this list.
We have not eaten here, and this file does not tell you whether the cooking matches the setting.
