Aíolos — Restaurant in Municipality of Astypalaia

We first ate here five years ago when staying on the island with our youngest two children, well teenagers, who are now both too old to holiday with their parents. So we felt that for old times sake we would visit Aiolos restaurant, Italian Pizza & Pasta restaurant, at the Old Port in Chora again.

And I'm pleased to say that we enjoyed our visit, yes it was a little disappointing that they didn't have the lasagne from the oven menu, as they didn't have any minced beef, so the spaghetti bolognaise was off the menu too, but we instead chose the ravioli filled with mushroom and bacon in a rich creamy sauce and a spaghetti carbonara, which again was very creamy and very plentiful.

To start with we shared a portion of garlic mushrooms, which were still sizzling away when they arrived.

Our meal was accompanied by a 500ml carafe or rose wine 🍷.

Whilst we didn't have pizza several other diners did, they come in three sizes; small, medium and large or as they call it 'gig' which I'm guessing stands for gigantic as they certainly appeared to be. Certainly looked good and boxes are available to take away what you can't eat, which appeared to be at least half a gig for one diner 😂 🍕.

We were intending to have the sweet dough pizza with chocolate and bananas 🍌 but as the chocolate was Nutella or similar my wife couldn't have it because of a nut allergy, which was a shame as the only other time that I have seen this on the menu is at VIP (Italian restaurant) in Brighton, and that was just brilliant, for such a simple dish, so I was a little disappointed. Maybe next time and maybe not too share.

Aiolos has a slightly raised location overlooking the old port, a good spot to watch yachts enter the port and moor up for the night.

We arrived late in the evening whilst it was still light and left as the sun was setting to the west, putting the restaurant and old port into shade, yet it was still lovely and warm. A very nice...

Fancied a night in!

What’s better to do than order food to be delivered?

I ordered for two people their special pizza, 🍕, Greek salad 🥗 and Al Forno Penne. Okay, we wanted to order their Astypalaia pasta, but the lady over the phone recommended that we only order it when we eat in the restaurant, otherwise, it will lose quality, so we went for the Al Forno (I love her honestly and yes it was a great choice anyway)

The food was delivered within half an hour, despite us living approximately 11 minutes drive away. The service was quick, and the food came pipping hot. Everything we had was super tasty.

🤤 I’m sure if we were to eat in, it would have been the same. I hope to dine in once before heading off from this beautiful...

This lovely restaurant is central of the harbor facing almost east. There is a very pleasing interior and a veranda looking out onto the yachts. The favorite main dishes served are pizza and pasta. Although there are some very appetizing other main courses. The starters and salads are varied to suit everyone's tastes. I have eaten here several times and am impressed with the quality and the generous portions. The ambience is relaxing with traditional music playing in the background. The seating is comfortable and the owners are very hospitable and the service is excellent. A delicious dessert was served on the house!! All in all a lovely place to...