Since 1985 · A family of places
You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it.
That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies,
that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand
for all that is life.
J. Krishnamurti
Our Story
Four decades by the same shore.
It started in 1985, when the first Alekos opened its doors as a club and restaurant in Agioi Apostoloi — a place where music, food and the sea collapsed into a single, late, generous evening. Forty summers on, the club is still here. The faces have changed, the music has changed, the menus have changed. The view from the terrace has not.
A decade later, in the mid-1990s, we opened a quieter sibling next door: the beach cafe. Slower mornings, longer brunches, a different kind of soundtrack. Coffee in the sun, swims between courses, spritzes as the sky turned. Where the club is night, the cafe is day.
For a brief chapter, Alekos lived in Athens too — Mitropoleos in the centre, and Kifisia in the north. Two restaurants, two neighbourhoods, the same family. They are closed now, but they still turn up in conversations, in old guests' stories, in photographs we keep on the wall.
Today, two doors stay open — both within a few steps of each other, both on the same stretch of sand. One for breakfast, one for the night.
1985 — present
Alekos Club Restaurant
Agioi Apostoloi · the original.
1995 — present
Alekos Beach Cafe
Agioi Apostoloi · daytime sibling.
2000 — 2008
Alekos Metropoletan
Mitropoleos, Athens. Closed.
2011 — 2013
Alekos Kifisia
Kifisia, Athens. Closed.
Day · since 1995
Beach Cafe
Morning coffee to last cocktail. Brunch under the tamarisk, swims, spritzes, sunset.
visit the cafe →Night · since 1985
Club Restaurant
Forty years of late dinners, music and the sea. The original Alekos.
visit the club →