From the morning boats, to your table Houlakia Bay, Agios Ioannis road km 4.2, Mykonos 84600 +30 22890 71534

Press & Awards

A MICHELIN Bib Gourmand in every edition since 2019, and a number of people who came for lunch and wrote about it afterwards.

2019First Bib Gourmand
7Editions held since
15Seasons, same boats
2011The De Vleeschouwers’ first August

Written about us

Quoted with permission. The full pieces are available on request.

MICHELIN Guide Greece — Bib Gourmand

Awarded in 2019 and held in every edition since. The Bib is the one we wanted: it is given for cooking that is worth the money, which is a more useful thing to be told than that the room is beautiful.

Condé Nast Traveller

“The fish arrives with the name of the man who caught it, and the bill arrives without a flourish. Both are rarer on this island than they should be.”

FT How to Spend It

Listed among six Aegean tables worth crossing water for — in a piece that also managed to spell Houlakia correctly, which we appreciated more than the listing.

Kathimerini

A long piece on the standing arrangement with the three boats, and what happens to a menu when nobody is allowed to telephone a wholesaler.

Lifo

On Marina’s cellar, the Thursday tastings, and the argument that a 140-bin list on a small island is either stubbornness or a public service.

Vogue Greece

Photographed the deck at the 20:00 seating in July. Aphrodite’s karydopita made the picture; her grandmother Garyfallia would have had views about the plating.

The recognition we actually count

The second Tuesday of August

Maarten and Inge De Vleeschouwer have eaten on this deck on the second Tuesday of August every year since 2011. Fifteen bookings, no gaps. That is the award.

Fifteen seasons of the same boats

Captain Vasilis has landed at the Houlakia steps for us since the first summer. No season has ever started with a new supplier, and none has started with a new argument.

Press enquiries

Images, the current menu and the press notes go out on request. Write to us and Lena will send what you need — we would rather that than have a phone photograph of the chalkboard reprinted.