About us
Within a magnificent interwar-era building, “Oraia Ellas” is experiencing its newest chapter.
Built from stone, marble, bronze, wood, and countless priceless artifacts, a visit to its spaces is like taking a journey through the social, economic, and political history of Greece.
It is no coincidence that the state has included it in the National Registry of Intangible Cultural Heritage, while it is also an official member and one of the most important stops on the “Historic Cafés Route” of the Council of Europe.
At the café “Oraia Ellas”,
they still serve, almost like a ritual,
coffee brewed on hot ash, with a piece of Turkish delight on the side.
The café with the most beautiful "balcony" in Athens.
The view from the upper floor is unmatched, and the breathtaking spectacle through the café’s glass windows leaves you speechless. On one side, you gaze upon the Sacred Rock, the Roman Agora, Hadrian’s Library, the tiled roofs of the neoclassical houses on Pandrossou Street, Plaka, and Anafiotika — and on the other, the Dimopratiriou Square.
Our History
On the walls, the faces of heroes from the 1821 Revolution, old chieftains, folk paintings, Venizelos, Koutalianos, religious icons, historical documents, old engravings, and black-and-white photographs in frames. Vintage advertisements and posters — around 1,500 in total — printed in silkscreen and linotype, promoting everything that was once produced in Greece over the past decades.
