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Family Tavern "Sofia" in Portes. The classic value in taste and tradition.

In Greece, fotka means tavern. Small tables outside, white tablecloths, gravel yards, blooming gardens. As tempting as the modern flavors are, the traditional Greek tavern will always remain in our hearts as a classic value, adored and alive, especially on spring days and nights when going out is a must.

Such a value is the family tavern "Sofia" in the beautiful Portes, the coastal settlement northeast of Aegina where in the old days the Venetians transported black stones from there to build the harbors of Crete.

The unique feeling of an old Greek film that the visitor gets as soon as he sees the tavern right at the entrance of the village, wins him over from the first moment. Smells from mom's kitchen greet him before he even chooses where to sit, in the cool cobbled courtyard with mulberry trees or the shadowy, rustic stone-walled interior.

It all started in 1974 when Sofia Kreuzi, mother of the current owner Mrs. Marina Kreuzi, a famous cook of the time, decided to establish the tavern with a focus on food quality and with supplies of the little culinary secrets she inherited from her family as well as the her love for cooking. Since then, the company of the same name has only experienced an upward trend and has reached the modern era to be considered one of the most must choices in traditional catering. The main factor in this, the talent and golden hands of Ms. Marina, which guarantee the unparalleled quality of each dish.

In the hands of Mrs. Marina and her husband Mr. Jimi who is famous for his baking skills, with help from their daughter who has inherited her grandmother's name, "Sofia" has preserved all those characteristics that made her made them famous and loved in the Aegina community and outside the island as well. Carefully cooked dishes, fresh fish and seafood from the island's fishing boats, fine meats and bread leavened in the wood-fired oven, the likes of which you have never tasted before, incredible aubergine salad, with all the raw materials coming strictly from the family itself. Be sure to try their famous ribs as well as the giant, incomparably flavored tomahawk flank steaks that you won't find anywhere else on the island accompanied by genuine, aromatic wine.

The business also has a multitude of parallel services such as delivery, private, comfortable parking, a playground for its little guests, while it is only 80 meters from the sea, with an unparalleled view. Mrs. Marina and Mr. Tzimis, with their passion and their love for quality and tradition, have managed to preserve unchanged all those characteristics that made "Sofia" unique and famous on the island.

So, when you go up to the picturesque Portes, a stop at the "Sofia" tavern is considered imperative. There you will understand why the whole of Aegina talks about its cuisine and about the general feeling of the shop that transports you to other times. Like a Sunday table full of relatives and friends, straight out of our childhood memories.