Koukaki

Koukaki sits on the south slope of the Acropolis, under the Filopappou hill, a residential grid the international media has called 'the world's most up-and-coming neighborhood' enough times that the description sticks. The Acropolis Museum lands here, the metro is two stops to Syntagma, the streets carry the small-cafés-and-bakeries register that Plaka lost a decade ago. The dining is modern-casual: brunch counters, the rising small-plate kitchens, the wine bars that opened around the museum opening. The traveller uses Koukaki for the Acropolis-Museum-and-lunch run, and for the rising kitchens that signal what Athenian dining will look like in five years.