It’s all about the meat at this simple backstreet taverna; the owner is a butcher, with a shop across the street. Sit outside rather than the dazzling-white interior, or in the covered courtyard (really it’s a garage), and tuck into steak, meatballs or veal liver with oil and oregano, occasionally seasoned with organ music from the nearby church.
Niohori
Rhodes Town
Lonely Planet's must-see attractions
25.78 MILES
A short, steep-stepped footpath climbs the rocky 116m-high headland above the village to reach Lindos’ beautifully preserved Acropolis. First fortified in…
0.62 MILES
A weathered, sun-kissed stone lion, visible from the street, invites visitors into the magnificent 15th-century Knights' Hospital that holds Rhodes’…
18.5 MILES
Cradled in a natural hillside amphitheatre 1km up from the sea, the remarkably complete ruins of ancient Kamiros stand 34km southwest of Rhodes Town…
0.54 MILES
Essentially an occupying army, the Knights of St John transformed the northern segment of the Old Town during the 14th and 15th centuries, to create what…
0.48 MILES
From the outside, this magnificent castle-like palace looks much as it did when erected by the 14th-century Knights Hospitaller. During the 19th century,…
0.56 MILES
Austere and somewhat forbidding, the Street of the Knights (Ippoton) was home from the 14th century to the Knights Hospitaller who ruled Rhodes. The…
0.66 MILES
The Old Town’s central commercial and residential district, south of the Street of the Knights, is known as the Hora. Having acquired its current…
11.84 MILES
The so-called Valley of the Butterflies, 7km up from the west coast, and 32km southwest of Rhodes Town, is a major day-trip destination for package…
Nearby Rhodes Town attractions
1. Modern Greek Art Museum – New Wing
0.15 MILES
This gleaming extension to the New Town’s Modern Greek Art Museum stands immediately behind its parent building. Located on the site of the city’s ancient…
0.15 MILES
The main gallery of the four-part Modern Greek Art Museum, near the New Town’s northern tip, holds paintings, engravings and sculptures by some of Greece…
0.18 MILES
The grounds of this graceful mosque hold a Turkish cemetery and the Villa Cleobolus, where Lawrence Durrell lived in the 1940s, writing his book on Rhodes…
0.25 MILES
It’s well worth taking a look at the interior of this Gothic-style Orthodox church, beside Mandraki Harbour and built under Italian rule; it’s covered…
0.37 MILES
Standing splendidly alone at the island’s northernmost tip, the New Town’s modest aquarium is housed in a 1930s’ art deco hydro-biological research…
7. Lighthouse of Agios Nikolaos
0.4 MILES
This landmark French-built lighthouse guards the entrance to Mandraki Harbour, at the spot where some suggest the Colossus of Rhodes once stood. Its beam…
0.43 MILES
Set in the northwestern flank of the citadel walls, and completed in 1512 under the rule of Grand Master Emery d'Amboise, the most impressive approach to…