A seafood deck above Houlakia bay, Mykonos. Open since 2009. The boats land at 7. We start cooking at 12:30.
Yannis’ grandfather Dimitrios fished this stretch of coast in the 1950s; the deck rests on the same caper terraces his family worked for four generations. In 2009 Yannis and Marina rebuilt the small storehouse into seven covered tables and didn’t change much else.nnToday the same three captains land their catch at the Houlakia steps before sunrise. Marina runs the cellar — 92% Cycladic — and writes the Thursday tasting menus through the off-season. The seven tables are now twenty-two; the philosophy hasn’t moved.

“The chef came out at the end of dinner. Not for show — to ask honestly how it went. That detail tells you everything.”
“A place where you can spend three hours and not look at your phone once. The room is built for conversation.”
“The ingredients clearly come from somewhere specific. You can taste the difference.”
“Service was attentive without being intrusive. The food justified the attention we gave it. A rare combination.”
Five fish, three boats, one garden. The board is photographed every day at 09:30.
All available when their season allows. The menu changes every Tuesday.



A short film by the photographer Stratos Kalafatis, shot over three mornings in May 2024 — the boats arriving, Yannis cleaning a basin of red mullet, Marina opening a bottle of Vassaltis.
Marina writes once a month — what the boats are bringing in, when the long Sunday lunches start, which wines we've just opened. No marketing, no urgency.