Photo by Kaymaria Daskarolis

When you have decided to leave the clubs in Psirri in the wee hours of the morning and are hungry—but not so hungry that you feel able to consume one of Kosta’s delicious crepes from Picasso di Crepa—consider going by the bakery at 23 Karaiskaki Street and picking up a freshly-baked, warm, scrumptious koulouri. The koulouria made by the bakery at 23 Karaiskaki are distributed to koulouri stands throughout Athens.

A koulouri is a wreath-shaped piece of slightly-sweet bread with sesame seeds all over it. (We suggested them long ago as Syntagma Square pigeon feed.) People in Greece love koulouri so much that the snack is sold on corners throughout the city every morning, typically disappearing by mid-day.

If a mid-morning koulouri from a kiosk is tasty, a post-clubbing koulouri straight out of the oven is a little slice of heaven.

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photograph by Kaymaria Daskarolis

Yesterday we told you about the changing of the guards in front of Athens’s Parliament Building. What we neglected to tell you is how much fun you can have feeding pigeons while you’re waiting for the guards to change shifts.

What should you feed to the birds? A koulouri is a delicious piece of bread topped with sesame seeds, usually twisted into the shape of a wreath. Koulouri can be purchased for between €.30 and €.50 from any number of stands near Syntagma Square, across the street from the Parliament Building.

Even more than koulouri, pigeons dig seeds. You can purchase a small bag of seeds for €1 from a gentleman by the guards’ booth in front of the Parliament Building.

Feeding the pigeons can be especially amusing if you are traveling with children. Prepare, though, to drop several euros on this experience if you do have kids in tow. One koulouri or bag of bird seeds is never enough!

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