The Merchant's House
A private dinner inside a 19th-century merchant's residence — opened, for one evening, only for you.
A neoclassical home in the old quarter. Candles in the courtyard. A chef who cooks for a single table per night, drawing from family recipes and the morning's market. Your guide pours wine from a private cellar. The doors close behind you.
- Private 19th-century residence
- One table per evening
- Wines from a private cellar
- Menu drawn from family recipes
- · Multi-course dinner
- · Wine pairing
- · Expert guide
- · Transfers
Indicative — every experience is privately composed and timed around you.
- 19:30Arrival, welcomed by the family
- 20:00Tour of the private rooms
- 20:45Dinner — archive recipes, cellared Nemea
- 22:30Coffee and digestif in the salon
A private dinner in a 19th-century Athenian merchant's residence — a house most travellers walk past without knowing exists. The descendants of the family welcome you in rooms that have not changed in a hundred years.
Travellers who collect interiors. Lovers of European house museums and slow, talkative dinners.
How each of the five senses is engaged through the course of the experience.
- Sight
- Painted ceilings, gilt mirrors, family portraits in candlelight.
- Sound
- Old wood floors, a piano in the next room, the chime of a hallway clock.
- Scent
- Beeswax, cut roses, woodsmoke from a small fire.
- Taste
- A reconstructed menu of the family's archive recipes; a cellared Nemea.
- Touch
- Heavy silver in the hand, embroidered linen, a velvet chair.