Breakfast at Elamu

They come with vanilla ice cream, berries, strawberries dipped in chocolate, and a mix of nuts.

Bulgur (cracked wheat) and granola with apple, pear, strawberries dipped in white chocolate, and nuts, topped with Greek yogurt.

Two slices of toasted sourdough bread with our homemade spread. For banana slices or butter, ask our waiter.

Two slices of toasted sourdough bread with our homemade tahini and honey.

Two slices of toasted sourdough bread with our homemade peanut butter and honey.

Four eggs your way (fried, poached, kayana, or scrambled), Greek extra virgin olive oil, feta cheese, Kalamata olives, hummus bowl with cucumber and carrot dippers, sliced avocado, and unlimited bread basket (toasted sourdough, pita, focaccia).

A homemade oven-dried rusk topped with grated tomatoes, feta cheese, Kalamata olives, Greek extra virgin olive oil, and oregano. Eaten with hands.

Two eggs cooked in a rich tomato sauce with crumbled mizithra cheese. Comes with sourdough bread or focaccia.

In my mother’s village, they scramble eggs in ripe-tomato sauce with feta and Kalamata olives. We serve them on bread of your choice, sourdough or focaccia.

Two sunny-side-up eggs, fried in Greek extra virgin olive oil from Kalamata, the olive oil I grew up on. The yolks are slightly runny, so you dip your bread (focaccia or sourdough). Finished simply with salt and oregano. We can also do them scrambled or your way.

A poached egg benedict on a slice of homemade sourdough with avocado and hollandaise dressing.

A poached egg benedict on a slice of homemade sourdough with cream cheese, beef bacon, avocado and hollandaise dressing.

Sourdough bread, cream cheese, avocado, egg your way (poached, scrambled or fried), smoked salmon, cherry tomatoes, and plenty of olive oil.

Sourdough bread, cream cheese, avocado, egg your way (poached, scrambled or fried), a beefteki (Greek-style burger), cherry tomatoes, and plenty of olive oil.

Toasted sourdough bread with hummus, Kalamata olives, and a handful of tasty chickpeas.

Toasted sourdough bread with homemade cream cheese, baked cherry tomatoes, Kalamata olives, and olive oil.

Toasted sourdough bread with our homemade cream cheese, tomato sauce, and eggplant slices drizzled with the olive oil.

A very old recipe, this mixed-greens salad with walnuts, almonds, pomegranate and apple is topped with goat cheese drizzled with honey.

It comes like in Greece: with feta and bread to dip into a generous amount of Greek extra virgin olive oil from Kalamata until the plate bottom is clean. Kuta’s only authentic Greek salad.

Purslane (glistrida) is the wild green Greeks have gathered since antiquity. Served simply with Greek extra virgin olive oil and thinly chopped garlic.