Athens is not a city that reveals itself quickly.

Mykonos does. You arrive, the light hits you, the sea is there, the island announces itself without reservation. Athens takes longer. The best of it is not on the surface and it is not in the guidebooks, and the people who leave after three days having seen the Acropolis and eaten at a restaurant near it have had a fraction of what the city offers and none of what makes it genuinely extraordinary.

I have been bringing clients to Athens since 1999, alongside the work in Mykonos that most people associate with Concierge Unique. In that time I have watched the city transform from a place that serious luxury travellers tended to pass through into a destination that a growing number of them specifically seek out. The restaurant scene is now genuinely exceptional.

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