Handpicked beaches, villages, tavernas and views that make the island feel personal. Browse the local favorites and start exploring.
Start exploringThis guide is made by someone who actually lives on Samos year-round. The goal is simple: help you skip the tourist traps and eat where locals actually go. Every restaurant, bar and experience listed here has been personally tried and tested.
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At the port of Karlovasi, Thodoris has made Charisma with great care. There you will always find great cocktails, a good selection of wines and beers, as well as nice accompaniments. Every Sunday incredible brunch.




Excellent food and service, good selection of wines and good beer. In an incredibly good position next to the sea, in Avlakia where the sea is almost always calm. Unfortunately, this year they erected a glass wall in front of the sea, but there is also the possibility to sit outside the wall. Before you go, call and book a table outside the wall.



Right on the beach of Agios Konstantinos, great food and service, we are regulars there.




Great food, beautiful place, great service, good celection of wines and a couple of good beers.




If I had a choice to go only in one place in Samos I would not think twice. It would be Samos Beer. Why? their beers (ONEIPA is now my favorite), the music, the food the service, the beutiful place. The beers are brewed on the spot and Dimitris has excelled in Master Shef with his signature Putty Melt.




Vagelis Bar is one of the oldest bars in Kokkari, a nice guy welcoming costumers always with a smile, BUT the star is his wife Fausta, everything Fausta makes is delicious, I can safely say that the best breakfast I ever had in Samos was and is made by Fausta. Go




One of the oldest restaurants in Samos, under new management. Great food right next to the beach. You can move from your chair on the beach to the restaurant and back.




In potami, just over the waterfalls you will find Archontissa, a restaurant right on top of potami gorge. Beutifull setting, great food, nice people.




A relatively new addition to the great restaurants of Karlovasi. Konstantinos and Hrysa will not dissapoint you, great food, good music, one of the best restaurants in Karlovasi to see the sunset.




In Karlovasi the best restaurant is Akamatra, in Paleo Karlovasi, on the way to Agia Triada, in a tiny square (Akamatra). Great food, atmosphere, service. In the summer you have to call before you go. It's usually packed.




This is the restaurant that started the gourmet cuisine in Samos and still keeps the first place. Sitting in the entrance of Platanos has a beautiful view of both the North and South sides of Samos and mount Kerkis, one of the best places to enjoy the sunset. Highligh of the restaurant is Aggelos, a great guy with deep knowledge of wine and food. This is a must go when you visit Samos.




A family run restaurant. Stavroula (the mother) cooks, Andreas (the father) produces most of the stuf they cook and coordinates, Dimitra (daughter) and Yannis (son) serve. A beautiful family cooking great food at reasonable prices at the beutiful square of Konteika. If you don't go you will miss great night out.




Best pizza and pasta in Kampos. A nice beach bar too. Dont miss it.




Great food, great service, beautiful views.




One of the best restaurants in Samos right in front of the sea. Great food, great service, dont miss it.




If Samos specialties made with localy sourced produce interests you, this is one of the few Restaurants left in Samos. A family run restaurant. The father plants the vegetables, mother cooks and the daughters serve. The food is always fresh, made with the best ingredients and cooked to perfection. This is the type of Restaurant the locals eat at.