In the heart of Thessaloniki, a semi-basement was transformed into the city's first aperitivo bar.
Do you happen to find yourself with most of your senses involved in the heart of Italy while your feet are in the center of Thessaloniki? It is possible if you pass by number 33 of Paleon Patras Germanou and stand in front of Giulietta. This is essentially where the history of aperittivo in Thessaloniki begins because the city's first Spritzeria has just opened.
In a semi-basement of 33 square meters, with the bar and the post inside, clad on the outside with rough pumice stone just like the shops in Rome, the striped awning and the perimeter glazing with the semi-pass but also the large sidewalk in front, with the stools – tables and groups or singles to relax and enjoy their drink and side dish, the ultimate Italian fantasy is captured in the heart of Thessaloniki.
For Italians, early drinks with a buffet and an "aperol" mood are an essential part of their daily life. The image of costumed yuppies or students after the walk, enjoying a glass of sparkling cocktail while filling their plate with side dishes from the buffet outside spritzerias in the south of Italy, is perhaps one of the typical tivo you can say it is something like happy hour of America, but you will do it wrong. It's a situation, it's a mood, it's a ritual! It is this joie de vivre that we envy every time we are in Italy and miss when we return home. And every time we say why not have a spritzeria here too?
Giulietta in Thessaloniki is the result of the collaboration of the teams behind the successful Cin Cin, Apallou and Join Juice Bars who decided to set up not another conventional bar in the city but something truly new in its urban reality. This is how the first spritz concept bar of Thessaloniki was born and it offers a complete early drink experience in an Italian way.
Experience from those you met and loved in the Italian cities or saw in the cinema and wanted to live and also to live continuously in your everyday life. Experience that puts you directly into the famously coveted temperament of the Italians. With the simplicity but also the power of the delicate flavors to accompany the -exclusive- sparkling drinks of the day. Those that start as a break from work or a stop from the running of everyday life and fade away charmingly in the days, in the late afternoon.
It opens its doors at 2:00 in the afternoon and at 11 in the evening you will hear the Last Drink Call bell for the last order. It strictly and exclusively serves what you will find in any authentic aperitivo bar that respects itself. This means aperitivo in house recipes based on anything that contains bubbles. From Aperol and Campari Spritz and Bitter Biz Vermouth to White Negroni & Tonic to Sparkling Wines & Champagnes. The aperitivo mood naturally takes off with the excellent flavors that accompany it. At Giulietta you will accompany your drink by choosing from a variety of cold cuisine of excellent bites and pairings, among four cheeses, four cured meats and four pickles which are served on a wooden platter.
Giulietta will mean the first Alfa Romeo model, Shakespeare's heroine, a few thousand Italian women and the first Aperitivo Bar in Thessaloniki. In this passage of P. Patron Germanou, in the semi-passage of the basement where you rest your plate and your glass, here where, with relaxed music and an aperitivo mood, the ultimate Italian fantasy is realized for the first time in Thessaloniki.
Spritz the Day!
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