Athens Hipsters Tour: Culture, Creativity & Coffee

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Experience Details
What You’ll Experience
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Duration
5 hours
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Number of Guests
2 - 15 guests
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English
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Dive into Athens' vibrant culture with our Hipsters Tour: discover trendy cafes, edgy art scenes, and savor local street food while meeting Athens' innovative creative minds on this unique journey.

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For each guest that attends this experience, byFood will donate
10 meals

Experience Details

On this alternative Athens tour, explore New Athens, a lively hub that was born due to its creativity throughout the financial crisis.

Discover the hipster side of Athens with us by exploring its modern street food scene, the hip coffee bars, and the edgy art, interacting with some of the new generation of Athenians who are behind this scene, and capturing the best spots of the city blowing up your Instagram account!


- Discover the hippest local spots in Athens, such as trendy coffee shops, artists’ workshops & music studios and watch the city’s most innovative creators at work.

- Explore the modern street food scene in Athens & taste some of the locals’ favourite gourmet snacks.

What You Get

Get personalized tips for the area's best bars and eateries.
PRIVATE TOUR Exclusive: enjoy the comfort of pick-up and drop-off at your stay or Piraeus port.
Enjoy bohemian coffee or tea.
Souvenirs & items of a personal nature
Tips & gratuities for your guide
Additional food and drink

Good To Know

  • If you are happy with the services provided by your local guides a tip – though not compulsory – is appropriate. While it may not be customary to you, it is of great significance to the people who will take care of you during your travels, inspires excellent service, and is an entrenched feature of the tourism industry. Please consider this when budgeting for your extra expenses on this tour.
  • How you help the local community by joining this tour: - Promote the multicultural and multi-ethnic character of the neighbourhoods you visit on this tour. - By supporting the new generation of Athenians, such as young artists, you promote their work and their enterprises to thrive through financial crisis.
  • Guests pickup is offered for the private group option. Pick up time adjustable upon your request. We will meet you at your Athens hotel lobby or at the Piraeus port. Our guide will be holding a sign with your name.
  • Food Allergies: Unless you suffer from multiple, combined food allergies, or unless you are a vegan, we will figure it out. Vegetarians are welcome on all tours.
  • Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller

What You’ll Experience

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The Academy of Athens

Following this absolute hipster tour, you’ll explore New Athens and the new Generation of Athenians whose innovative ideas and the passion for creating during the crisis period regenerated the city center in a lively hub where different cultures meet. Discover the modern street food scene of Athens, visit trendy coffee bars, and meet young artists in their studios. Your guide will reveal to you some great spots to blow up your Instagram account! Beginning your hipster walking tour of Athens, you’ll meet your local guide in Korai pedestrian Street and pass through the numerous stoas (covered walkways) of the city where cult cinemas and hidden stores narrate unique old-time stories and feelings of the city. This “old School” setting is the new trendy, and with your local guide you will find out why!
30 minutesAdmission Ticket Free
2

Ermou Street

The first Athenian you’ll meet is a young, local artist in an old grocery market building in the buzzing city centre that has transformed into her jewelry workshop. Look through her unique pieces in her showroom as you chat with the artist about her art and the techniques she follows as well as the obstacles to starting a business during turbulent financial times. Moving on to our next stop now, you’ll enjoy a gourmet and organic snack in a hip street food eatery that serves authentic tastes made from traditional recipes of Greece and Minor East. By eating here, you’ll support this small-owned business and local food producers financially as all ingredients used are exclusively produced and packaged by local farmers and vendors.
1 hourAdmission Ticket Free
3

Plaka

Afterwards, you’ll visit our favourite spice house that is so exciting with fragrances and aromas that will travel you into the old Orient. Learn all about spices and herbs,and Greece’s strategic geographical position that brought together traders from East and West, and wake up your senses as you smell all these Asian and African spices, Greek and Balkan herbs, Indian sauces, and famous French tea brands. Of course, no visit is proper without a glass of local mountain tea! Continuing your tour, you’ll wander through the back streets of Athens in an area loved by the hipster community. Experience the areas’ cool vibes, admire charming neoclassical buildings and discover quaint little bars. At our next stop, if we’re lucky and no new tunes are produced at that moment, you’ll experience a musical presentation in a contemporary creative music lab.
1 hourAdmission Ticket Free
4

Agia Irini Church

Then, we’ll stop for a caffeine shot at a cooperative that promotes fair-trade products and supports directly the producers, while next, you’ll be welcomed by the friendly owners of a foodie joint that is located on a cozy pedestrian street. Feel the ethnic vibes, smell the flavors and experience an exquisite savory pleasure made by mama’s hand. After filling your belly, enjoy a stroll around the Commercial Triangle District, an area totally reborn during the last decade of the financial crisis that has transformed into the most prominent asset of the city.
1 hourAdmission Ticket Free
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Psirri / Gazi

Next, you’ll walk through the Red Light District, to one of the hippest neighborhoods of Athens, known as Psirri. Explore artsy alleys, and discover vintage shops, secret underground clubs, alternative hangouts, and new-style designer collectives. Here is the place that you will recall your childhood memories as you dig out items of the 1980s & 90s culture. Your Athens Hipster walking tour couldn’t be completed without tasting a refreshing delightful organic ice cream made with fresh, high-quality products and selected raw ingredients.
1 hour 30 minutesAdmission Ticket Free

Meeting & Pickup

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Guests' pickup is offered for the private group option. Pick up time adjustable upon your request. We will meet you at your Athens hotel lobby, Airbnb or Piraeus port. Our guide will be holding a sign with your name. Please call or email us (contact information on voucher).
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Meeting Point

Korai 7, Korai, Kentrikos Tomeas Athinon, Greece, GR, 105 64

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Korai Street/Square in front of Starbucks (next to Panepistimio metro station). We will be standing next to the entrance of Starbucks holding an Athens Local Adventures sign. For private tour option we offer Athens hotel or Piraeus port pick up. Please call or email us.
End Point

This experience ends at the meeting point.

Cancellation Policy

Cancel your booking at least 24 hours before the experience start time to receive a full refund minus a 3.2% transaction fee.

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