Athens got its own 'In Your Pocket' city guide this month. Like every other IYP guide around Europe, it is packed with useful, timely and accurate information about accommodation, restaurants, nightlife, sightseeing, shopping etc.

If there isn't one in your hotel room, you can buy it at foreign press news stands for just €2 or simply download it for free.

www.inyourpocket.com

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This is Berlin in Athens.
Run by a creative team, this multi-purpose place is the point of reference for alternatively trendy-cool young Athenians. A large bar with minimal decor and experimental DJ sets, a live stage that hosts international progressive artists, a basement club, and a small cinema, all under the same industrial roof.

84 Pireos St
+30 210 3425335
www.bios.gr

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You'll listen to good music, enjoy free tapas with your drinks and mingle with interesting young crowds in a place that is packed every single night (avoid Saturdays).

The food in the small restaurant room is also lovely.

44 Triptolemou St.
Gazi
+30 210 3471844

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Avoid the modern day intercity for a romantic night ride on train 504.

It departs Athens central station at 22.50 arriving at Thessaloniki at 5.30 just in time for morning coffee and fresh bougatsa (cream pie).

Early booking can secure one, two, three or four bed compartments but the real thing are the six bed compartments in older cars.

True old fashioned experience on one of Europe's oldest trains with the bonus of the lovely city of Thessaloniki at the end of the journey.

www.ose.gr

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A cosy jazz 'museum' in the posh area of Kolonaki.

Enjoy vintage jazz in an appropriately smoky environment and have a philosophical chat with Costas the legendary owner.

Avoid telling him that you prefer modern jazz (that's anything after bebop!), he may ask you to leave his bar!

4 Deinokratous st (oposite St George Lycabetus Hotel)
Kolonaki
210-7258362

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Real Cretan food in a nice casual chic environment.

Fresh produce shipped daily from the island of Crete. Owner Stavros Theodorakis, famous Greek journalist is around most nights making sure his guests have a great night out.

Gamopilafo (Cretan risotto served at weddings) is the best you can get outside Crete. Around 40 euros per person including wine and dessert. Reservation recommended.

Vrasida 13 (oposite Athens Hilton)
Athens
+30-210/721-0501

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