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Matsuhisa Athens
Restaurant, Japanese-Peruvian · Four Seasons Astir Palace, Vouliagmeni
Nobu Matsuhisa on the Astir peninsula, seven nights a week and open for lunch at the weekend. The room on this coast that keeps the longest hours at this level.
Commercial relationship
None. LivingTheta has no commercial relationship with Matsuhisa or Four Seasons and receives nothing from it.
- What it is
- Restaurant, Japanese-Peruvian The Nikkei style Nobu Matsuhisa built in Los Angeles.
- Michelin
- No star It does not appear on the standing Athens star list.
- Where
- Four Seasons Astir Palace, 40 Apollonos, Vouliagmeni
- The room
- Designed by the Rockwell Group Terrace over the Saronic Gulf.
- Hours
- Seven nights Mon to Thu 19:00 to 00:00, Fri to 00:30, Sat and Sun from 13:30.
- Reopened
- 2019 With the hotel.
- Distance
- About 0.5 km from Astir Marina Straight-line. No authority publishes journey times for these routes; by road it is longer, and in traffic considerably longer.
Matsuhisa Athens sits in the grounds of the Four Seasons Astir Palace, on a terrace over the Saronic Gulf, in a room by the Rockwell Group. It reopened with the hotel in 2019 and cooks the Nikkei style — the Japanese-Peruvian fusion Nobu Matsuhisa built in Los Angeles and then exported.
Why it matters more than the star count suggests
It has no Michelin star. It is also the only kitchen at this level on the Athens Riviera that opens seven nights a week and serves lunch at the weekend.
Pelagos, on the same estate, does dinner five nights. Patio at The Margi does nine tables for five months. For a household that lives here rather than visits, availability is a feature and it is the one nobody puts in a listicle.
What you are actually buying
A format. The black cod, the yellowtail with jalapeño, the new-style sashimi — these are the same dishes in Aspen and in Mykonos, executed to a standard the group polices. That consistency is the product, and whether it is a virtue or a limitation depends entirely on what you wanted from an evening on a Greek headland.
The counter-argument is the one this site makes about the whole coast: the room with the view is priced separately, and a global format on a terrace is the purest version of that trade.
