Xanthi Bar Restaurant - Greek Cuisine

We are fussy about Mediterranean food. Few restaurants are impressive to have met our standard of what constitutes and represents Greek cuisine. Xanthi offers more than run-of-the-mill dips and grills. Every dish has the zing that comes up rather exceptional for the unexpected diners.

Greek Salad - excites the tastebuds with bursting flavours of fresh vegetables, fragrant olive oil and herbs.

Grill Octopus - flavoursome and grilled to the precise texture that is well cooked but neither burnt nor chewy.

Spicy Meat balls of pork, beef and rice served with melted cheese on top.
Looks quite ordinary like any other meatball of Mediterranean origin.
The difference lies in the loosely bound mince that is smooth and tasty.

Lamb Skara - slow cooked, tender to every bite, yet filled with multi-dimensional character.
The sauce is yummy but subtle and unassuming.

Pork belly baklava as the name suggests comprises lean pork stew wrapped in cripsy filo topped with crackling. Very delicious with the thick brown sauce topping.  However, it may be a tad sweeter than most who are used to savoury main dish. The sweetness comes from the date and pistachio, ingredients usually meant for dessert.

We gave some of the fried dishes a miss after prior research on previous customers' reviews.

Dessert is usually the best but also more costly proportionate to the main meal.  These selection appear most interesting on the dessert menu - olive oil ice cream with fig and pistachio & filo wrapped semolina with chocolate sauce topping and mixed spice ice-cream.

It was an enjoyable experience. Worth a second visit.