Alati, the ancient Greek word for salt, has been bringing the freshest produce wild-caught by the fishermen at the Aegean Sea since 2015 in its blue and white interiored restaurant, evoking the same rustic charm of the Greek Cyclades. Everything on the menu, from the meat to the pastry to the bread, is homemade, so you know it doesn’t get more authentic than this. The signature Garides Kataifi, Alati’s version of prawns wrapped in kataifi phyllo pastry comes with roasted almonds and sun-dried tomato aioli from Santorini. For mezze, Alati’s Famous Athenian platter ($34) features homemade aioli and yoghurt-marinated Greek fish on toasted sourdough with pea puree. Other signatures include Lahanodolmades ($37), featuring slow-cooked sea bass and crab meat cabbage rolls with rice in a creamy egg lemon sauce; and the garlicky Bakaliaros skordalia ($34), a deep fried beer battered cod with roasted beetroot. For dessert, the quintessential Greek breakfast pastry (and another Alati signature) is a must-try – the Bougatsa ($29) is a crispy phyllo pastry filled with cinnamon-scented vanilla custard cream topped with pistachio and orange ice-cream.
Written by Priyanka Elhence