Kritamos — Restaurant in Municipality of West Mani

The best of Greece so far.

I stayed a couple nights in Kardamyli and ate here a couple breakfasts and one supper.

The breakfast was excellent and extremely reasonable in price both times.

The supper? Wow, honestly did not expect to find this level of food...

I had an order of meatballs in tomato sauce to start. I am thinking I will get some decent meatballs in ragu. Nope, these were better. The sauce was certainly tomato based but the flavours they worked into the sauce went far beyond. There was some onion, spices for sure, not sure what to be honest but it was phenomenal. The meatballs were flavored just right to act as the perfect device to mop up the sauce.

The main I chose was what was decribed to me as a Greek "rissoto" with shrimp. It was definately like a rissoto, but the grain was smaller then rissoto rice, it had a very nice texture, cooked absolutely perfect. The base of this dish was rich, multiple flavors hitting at different times like a fine wine. Lemon, truffle oil, wow. The shrimp were beatifully placed on top to finish the presentation and they were fresh, firm and grilled perfectly. This is a dish I could get in a Michelin star restaurant and say "yep, that makes sense". The only difference is the Michelin restaraunt will give you 1/5th the amount of rissoto, 1 shrimp on top, and charge you twice as much.

Phenomenal, this will likely be the restaraunt I look back on the most fondly from all my...

Beware of super long waiting time! Despite making our presence known on arrival, no one came to our table to take our order for half an hour. Even signalling to the counter that we were ready to order was futile, as the owner simply told us to wait some more. We were already rather hungry and had to leave after another 5 minutes of waiting. Got service right away at another, even more...

I loved this place ive been in kardamily for the third time and this is the place where i choose to eat and drink my coffee. Nowhere else! Not a big catalog but it has everything. The place warm and cosy. The service is great and the prices are so low it felt like stealing from them! :P :p thanks for the great experience! I strongly suggest Manis Carbonara and...