Just bear in mind that many restaurants in the more popular tourist areas cater to tourists, not locals. The food is not the same as in say a small village up in the hills somewhere. In winter most of the tourist oriented restaurants will be closed fortunately, so your chances of truly authentic Greek food are increased. LOL

One of my other favourites is Greek village bread. There are variations by region and island but on Rhodes it is Psomi. Another variation is called Daktlya (fingers). What you are looking for is a small restaurant in a village where you see an outdoor oven and the family Yaya (grandmother) makes the bread in that oven once a week.


No 'enriched' white flour or preservatives in sight here.

When I lived on Rhodes, I would visit a village restaurant that served this bread to locals and to me. Tourists got the usual 'white pap' as I call it. I'd go for lunch and tell Maria, 'I'll have whatever the family is having today Maria' and she would smile and start bringing us all kinds of things that I had no idea of what was in them. She always sent me home with a loaf of her Mother's bread.

One other favourite I always asked her for were her Revithokeftedes (chick pea patties). She used to give me some sometimes in a plastic container to take home and semi-deep fry in olive oil. Has your wife tried those?

I'm missing Rhodes just writing about this stuff.