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Author: Joyce-Ann Gatsoulis
Contributor: Diana Porter
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HOME » DESTINATIONS » ATHENS
NIGHT+DAY ATHENS
The quintessential modern Greek experience flourishes day
and night in Athens: staying up until sunrise, swaying to the intoxicating strains of songs about love and loss, ordering still more bottles of
whiskey and wine.
March’s Best Event: Greek Wine Forum
The Lowdown:
Greek Wine Forum, held in odd years, is an elegant three-day tasting session with exquisite and unusual wines from around the country displayed at a showpiece cultural center in central Athens. Oenorama, held in even years, is a huge expo of wines—with plenty of opportunities to taste. The expo concludes with a competition to determine Greece’s top wines, sommeliers, and restaurant wine cellars (spring 2008).
When: Dates vary; prices vary.
Where: The Greek Wine Forum: Zappeion; Oenorama:
Eket Exhibition Center
Contact: 210-766-0560; dionyssia.gr,
oenorama.com
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ATHENS (2008):
Petros Kostopoulos (Media Stylemaker) and Dakis Ioannou
(Art Collector and Hotelier)
 Petros Kostopoulos has risen from magazine editor and radio commentator to cultural innovator over the last decade, putting his own indelible mark on the aesthetics of the capital along the way. Through
Klik, a groundbreaking magazine he edited, and later through Nitro
and Downtown, titles published by his own Imako publishing group,
he introduced Greeks to lifestyle concepts that helped reshape
Athens from a London wannabe into a vibrant city with its own edgy
personality. "We are trendsetters, almost pathologically giving birth to
and searching for new ideas," he has said of his cadre of provocateurs.
Okay, so Greek excess has taken lifestyle fads to a ridiculous
extreme, giving outsiders the impression that Greek society, once
politically aware, is now starstruck and preoccupied with celebrity
gossip. But the fact that innovative chefs like Lefteris Lazarou came
back to open Michelin-starred restaurants like Varoulko is largely the
result of Kostopoulos’ ability to create a market for haute cuisine and
trendy bars. Kostopoulos even served as Donald Trump on Greece’s
version of the reality show, casting out hopeful apprentices with
“Efiges,” slang for “You’re out.”
Dakis Ioannou, an art collector of international renown with a sharp
eye for the avant-garde, proved his acumen as a connoisseur and
businessman by endowing the city with landmark establishments like
the Semiramis Hotel in Kefalari a place that has taken concept
design to new levels with striking results. His DESTE Foundation for
Contemporary Art introduced intellectually starved young Greeks to
Jeff Koons and proved that art, style, and leisure can happily coexist
under the same roof in this case the oh-so-cool Cosmos bar-restaurant without being starchy.
Check out our choice for the
world's foremost Urbanistas in other cities:
The Urbie Awards.
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