Smaragdi Restaurant - Smaragdi Restaurant

J’étais dans ce restaurant pour le petit déjeuner. Rien de simple sur la carte qui est pourtant une carte de petit déjeuner mis à part le croissant…j’ai donc pris une omelette mais là aussi rien de simple, avec pas mal de choses dedans, mais qui était très bonne juste accompagnée de 2 mini triangle de pain qui aurait pu être toasté pour 7€80 quand même, pas de beurre pas de confiture, le minimum. Ajoutez un jus d’orange et un thé 14€80 J’aurais payé ce prix avec plaisir si le serveur avait au moins été aimable. Je me suis installé à une table qui n’avait pas été nettoyée depuis le service du soir avec cheveu dessus et taches. Il me pose verre et bouteille d’eau et lorsque je lui demande de nettoyer la table il vaporise un peu de spray et nettoie autour de ce qu’il avait posé sur la table. Changez de métier Monsieur

Excelente restaurante en la plaza central de Artemonas. Sabores auténticos, platos revisitados de la gastronomía griega (calamar, kritharoto, etc) llenos de sabor y refinadamente presentados. Comida acompañada con vino blanco malagusia. El personal es super atento, servicial y siempre te atiende con una sonrisa auténtica. En definitiva, una velada estupenda, en un ambiente inigualable. Volveríamos a ir una y otra vez. Muchas gracias de nuevo Antonis!

Κάκιστη συμπεριφορά του σερβιτορου.ενω έχουμε παραγγείλει καφεδες και πρωινο,περιμένοντας έχουμε ανοίξει μια μικρή συσκευασία με τρία αμυγδαλωτά από το φούρνο και τα δοκιμάζουμε!!!ήρθε και μας πρόσβαλε ότι δεν επιτρεπετε να τρώμε εκεί από το ζαχαροπλαστειο και μόνο από κει να παραγγείλουμε!!!ενώ ήδη είχε γίνει αυτό και περιμέναμε!!!

Great breakfast!

Went to Smaragdi after reading nice things about it online. Saw very nice pictures of dishes that looked great to me, also people's comments were really good. After going, I can't say I agree... sorry, not at all. Personnel was very kind and helpful, although service took too long at an early time when the place was almost empty. The environment was good, restaurant is placed in a beautiful area and it is nicely decorated. The menu has probably been changed because there was almost nothing in there from the pictures I had seen online. The menu was very small, not much too choose from, not even starters. What annoyed me the most, since my companion is a vegetarian, was that there was only one choice for vegetarians. Salad. Nothing more. Everything else has fish or meat in there. So, she only had to eat salad. As far as quality is concerned. We got her salad, which was nothing special. Too plain, too common and dull in comparison to other salads we have had on the island on previous days. I got a burger... Have to say, I 've had much much better ones in half the price and double as big. Wasn't impressed at all by quality or quantity. Overall, we got those two dishes plus wine and a fava starter which was nothing special either. We paid 50 euros. We are not going back...

We arrived on a Sunday for breakfast, the restaurant was full and our felt like the waiters weren’t very coordinated and seemed disoriented…not organized. They couldn’t take an order with a small alternative to the menu, as they said they had too many orders and the kitchen would make a mistake..hm So if you have a food allergy or intolerance you will not be satisfied. The food is ok nothing exceptional a decent nice breakfast.

Wonderful Fine Dining experience at Artemonas, Sifnos, Greece There isn’t another restaurant like Smaragdi on the island of Sifnos, one of the most beautiful of the Cyclades, and a bit of a hidden gem. Right at the entrance of the pleasant and car-free centre of Artemonas, Sifnos’ second-largest town, and opposite the beautiful Church of St. Constantine and Helen lies Smaragdi, a summertime restaurant that should be on the bucket list of every foodie who is visiting this marvellous island. Here Chef Adonis, who works in the winter time at one of the best seafood restaurants in Athens, Kollias, reigns the kitchen and cooks in his own unique and convincing style. The French would undoubtedly qualify Smaragdi as “vaut le voyage” (worth the trip). While you will most likely have an unforgettable holiday on this island full of stunning beauty, your taste buds may deserve better than the average moussaka and souvlaki that about every other restaurant will be serving. I stayed at Artemonas for one week, and after eating dinner at Smaragdi on the first day I was immediately hooked, and wanted to try out more. I returned for dinner for several more evenings, and sampled multiple choices of the menu. Adonis’ cooking is a creative combination of modern fusion cuisine, mainly based on the highest quality local produce that Greece – and in particular Sifnos – have to offer. While preserving the original flavours of the ingredients, such as tuna, beef, pork, cheese and many local vegetables, he interweaves them with complementary tastes and textures that enrich them to the upper limit. He doesn’t reproduce or translate the Greek cuisine, but builds an ingenious and inspiring fantasy version of it, combining deep technical skills with creativity. Adonis’ cooking is consistent, providing an equally high level of quality and surprises for every dish that he prepares. The menu is short, with 6 starters, 3 pasta/rice dishes, 4 salads, 4 main courses, and 4 deserts. But each and every of them will provide you with an explosion of tastes and textures. The portion sizes are more than decent, and it is very unlikely that you leave hungry, even if you had only one course. I was extremely impressed by the Sifnian pies with strawberry sauce and the Tune tartar with cucumber (both appetizers), the Black pasta with smoked salmon and cherry tomatoes, and the Pork chops with baked potatoes (both main courses), and the Parfait with halvah, crocan on kantaifi bed (desert). These simple names hide a culinary sophistication with which you will undoubtedly indulge yourself, just as with every other course on the menu. Smaragdi has an equally short but excellent wine selection, with some of the best Greek wines. Two wines that impressed me was a Kir Yiannis (2017), an excellent white wine from the Greek province of Macedonia, made of roditis and malagouzia grapes, and a red Papagianakos Estate, P.G.I. Attica (2015), from the famous Greek agioritiko grape variety combined with some cabernet sauvignon. Waiter Agelos, who is also the sommelier, will be more than ready to provide you with his expert advice. The waiting staff is very friendly, welcoming, and efficient. The atmosphere is very informal, as this is a summer holiday resort after all. Nobody will specifically dress up for dinner here, obviously. The background music is excellent easy listening/lounge music, with sufficient variation so that it never gets boring. There are several lounge couches at the terrace, where you may enjoy your after-dinner digestif or maybe an excellent cocktail from the very long bar menu. The bargirl does an outstanding job mixing drinks, too. Smaragdi doesn’t offer lunch, but from 8am-2pm (08:00-14:00) the restaurant (which is also linked to an affiliated hotel with the same name) also serves breakfast/brunch options that entail some interesting and very tasty choices. You should not visit Sifnos without dining at Smaragdi at least once! For the record: I paid for all my meals in full, and I have no affiliations with the restaurant, its staff or its owners.

Hyped restaurant that apparently values themselves slightly too high to say the least. The staff knows second to none about the wines they’re selling. The waitress was sent to fetch some cheese for the salad to the restaurant in front. It felt like it’s a place that’s designed to extract the money, but not to provide with pleasurable experience to the customers.