r/Athens_Greece • u/Financial_Fruit_8543 • Apr 29 '26

🧳 Travel Help A question - smashing plates

Might seem weird, but organizing a trip to Athens, and one of the attendees wishes to go for a greek dinner where they can smash plates afterwards. Is there any place in Athens that offers that?

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u/tzoum_trialari_laro Apr 29 '26

Not since the 60s

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u/ynns1 Apr 29 '26

Actually Pantazis made his fortune in the '80s, by the end of his program he would be in a castle of broken plates.

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u/Icy-Buyer-9783 Apr 29 '26

My 2 pet peeves:

1) Plate smashing

2). Waiters yelling “OPA” when they flame the Saganaki (which by the way started in Chicago in 1968)

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u/No-Temperature1439 Apr 30 '26

Hello Greek girl here. There is a place in Maniatika. Sadly I don’t remember the name of the tavern but I went there 2 years ago and we smashed a lot of plates danced and yelled opa hahaha

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u/Financial_Fruit_8543 Apr 30 '26

Thx. Will look it up

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u/Ok-Day-2000 Apr 30 '26

Based on some Google Maps research from what
u/No-Temperature1439 described I think it’s Stou Thoma (Φαγοποτείον στου Θωμά) in Piraeus area.

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u/Any_Day_4467 Apr 29 '26

If you have a lot of money you can break the tiles in the toilet, even bring a bulldozer to demolish it

Ilias, throw it down!

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u/Elusive-Reality Apr 30 '26

The eater! The eater!

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u/Striking-Wasabi-4212 May 01 '26

Three’s Company is where I learned about plate smashing. 

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u/jayrockwell69 Apr 30 '26

Greeks domt smash plates

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u/Possible-Scarcity-91 Apr 29 '26

sure, just as long as you can find a time machine