The File
One&Only Aesthesis
Beachfront resort, four restaurants · Glyfada, Athens Riviera
Four restaurants under one roof, three of them aimed at people who are not staying. The dining is the argument, not an amenity attached to the rooms.
Commercial relationship
None. LivingTheta has no commercial relationship with One&Only or its restaurants and receives nothing from them.
- What it is
- Beachfront resort One&Only's entry to Greece. Also sells Private Homes.
- Where
- Glyfada
- General manager
- Gerald Krischek Previously Prince de Galles Paris, Bristol Vienna, Goldener Hirsch Salzburg.
- Restaurants
- Four Manko, Ora by Ettore Botrini, Sumosan, Terrazza Campari.
- Open to non-guests
- Yes Stated policy of welcoming Athenians rather than only residents of the hotel.
- Beach
- Blue Flag 2026 Glyfada, Glyfada A and Glyfada B all hold 2026 Blue Flags.
One&Only Aesthesis marked the arrival of the group in Greece, on the Glyfada beachfront, and it did something on the food side that most resorts on this coast have not: it opened four separate restaurants with four separate identities, and it says openly that it wants Athenians in them.
The four
- Manko — South American.
- Ora by Ettore Botrini — Mediterranean, under a Greek chef with a substantial reputation.
- Sumosan — Japanese, and an international name rather than a house concept.
- Terrazza Campari — the most recent addition, an Italian aperitivo terrace on the waterfront.
That is a deliberate strategy rather than an accumulation. The general manager, Gerald Krischek, has put it plainly in trade press: the restaurants are often the first introduction a guest has to the resort and increasingly the reason they come at all.
The line that matters to a resident
Krischek has also said that the most successful hospitality destinations are the ones embraced by international travellers and by discerning residents together, and that welcoming Athenians keeps the resort connected to the coast through the year.
A hotel restaurant that wants you in February is a restaurant. One that wants you in July is a hotel restaurant.
That distinction is the whole reason a household living here should care about a resort at all, and it maps directly onto the difference between a kitchen and a view. The test remains what it always is on this coast: ask whether they are open, and busy, out of season.
What we are not saying
No editor has eaten here, so there is no assessment of the cooking in this file, and there will not be one until someone has been.
We are also not describing anything here as Michelin-starred, and neither should anyone else at the moment. There is no 2026 Michelin selection for Athens: the guide expands to Santorini and Thessaloniki and the inaugural combined selection is due in the second half of 2026. The current standing list dates from 2024.
The resort also sells Private Homes alongside the hotel, which is the branded-residence model — and the premium that model carries buys mostly absence, which is worth understanding before treating it as a way to live here.
