Crescendo Cafe — Restaurant in Athens

We gave local Greek beverages the test!

We wanted to try the local Greek alcohol and so we decided to give this place a try. It was great! By the way drinks in Greece are really cheap! 4 euros for a drink! That's a steal!

We asked the server to bring us local drinks and he served us Tsipouro, a grape-distilled spirit scented with anise. We also tried Ouzo a strong alcoholic made out of pure ethyl alcohol flavored with anise and possibly other spices. Lastly we drank mastiha - a liqueur seasoned with mastic, a resin with a slightly pine or cedar-like flavor gathered from the mastic tree, a small evergreen tree native to the Mediterranean region.

By the end of it, let us say I had trouble standing up and walking. Luckily our hotel was just round the corner - so we made it back okay. I had a bit of a headache the next day. But it was worth...

I was with my brother and my two kid sisters. There were no tables to sit so we ordered to go. When our drinks came out a table opened up and we sat down. One of the workers came up to me and said it would be 3 extra euros to sit down, so I got up and drank my espresso standing. My brother and my sisters were drinking and my brother offered to order another drink to sit down so he orders an orange juice for my sister. The lady comes and try’s to recharge us for our entire order after we already paid in front. She tried making my brother pay 11.50 euros for a single orange juice. Usually I’ve been dealt with great hospitality in Greece, but this place has tried to take advantage of us just because we are young and American. Terrible service, the coffee wasn’t anything...

My first negative review because I had to share. Average coffee and bakery products but… ask how much they are going to charge you and learn from my stupidity. I ordered an americano and a pastry (marked at 2.80), total came to 6.80. After absentmindedly handing them my card, I did the math and realized yep, 4.00 for an americano… I said wait no I don’t want the coffee and the woman made eye contact me and swiped the card anyway. 2 minutes later another guy orders an americano and gets it for 2 euros so I decided to say something. Answer was that coffee is 2 euros extra if you want to sit there and this is ‘common in the Athens city...