The Best Restaurants in Skopelos Town

Contemporary Greek: Minnŏ Restaurant

Inside Minnǒ Boutique Hotel & Spa, chef Dimitris Charitidis serves refined seasonal Greek cooking on a terrace looking over Skopelos harbour. Signatures include lobster with baby gem and graviera cream, fish stifado, and a quartet of horiatiki with handmade olive bread. Open for lunch and dinner, May through October — reservations recommended.

Classic harbour tavernas

The waterfront tavernas are the island's most photographed tables for good reason: cold house white, grilled octopus, whole fresh fish and a slow view of the boats. Best at sunset. Go early, or book — the front rows fill by 20:30 in August.

Backstreet ouzeria and kafenia

Step a lane or two back from the port and you'll find tiny rooms serving whatever the cook felt like making that day — the best plates in town are often here. Ask for the Skopelitiki tyropita (the spiral cheese pie), wild greens, and a small carafe of tsipouro.

Seafood specialists

A handful of kitchens focus on what came in that morning: sea bream, red mullet, calamari, langoustines. See our Skopelos seafood guide for what to look for and how to order it.

How to choose

• For a special evening: contemporary Greek, on a terrace, with a proper wine list — Minnŏ.
• For atmosphere: a harbour taverna at sunset.
• For the real island food: a backstreet ouzeri.
• For fish: whichever kitchen the local boats delivered to that morning.