Araklia Restaurant
With local products from at least 15 islands of the Cyclades, with producers-suppliers that there is mutual appreciation and love for our place, sometimes with authentic traditional recipes and sometimes with more creative but always based on our unique materials, I expect the Araklia where Taste memories and Micro-Cycladic taste experiences are “built”.
A dream came true, with the hope that Iraklia will have the opportunity to enter the gastronomic map of our Country, we waiting you at “Araklia” from May to October to travel you deliciously to the authentic Aegean Cuisine. Be our guest!
’ARAKLIA’’ Restaurant is member of AEGEAN CUISINE network from 2021
- 2021 ‘’Quality’’ Awards – Gastronomos magazine
- 2022 ‘’Best Culinary Destination’’ Awards – FORUM & CHEF HELLENIC CLUB
- 2023 ‘’Traditional Greek Cuisine’’ Award – FNL GUIDE
- ‘’ Greek Cuisine ‘’ Award – ATHINORAMA magazine
- Praise for the ‘’Promotion of Extra Virgin Olive Oil ‘’ – FILAIOS
Araklia Restaurant
KAKKAVIA
Fish soup, fish fillet in it
ANDRIOTIKI
Corthineze by Giginis, hot salad with Volaki (white cheese from Andros), cherry tomatoes, fresh basil, thyme & seasalt
MYKONIAN
Green salad with spinach, rocket, iceberg, xinotyro (mykonian cheese), sundried tomato. Cycladic vinegrette, sesame
CYCLADIC
Cherry tomatoes, rocket, louza (MYCONIAN ham), xinomizythra
( goat cheese SCHINOUSA) rusk & sea fennel TINOS
SYRIANO
Marinated octopus in red vinegair with thyme – rosemary, sundried tomato and tender caper leaves from Syro
FAVA LAKERDA
Fava from Iraklia, with Lakerda (salted tradition marinated fish) pita bread,,marinated cherry tomatoes and caper
KOFTO MAKARONAKI
Pasta from Fava beans flour, with squid and octopus, crème of San Michalis cheese from Syros and olive oil fennel flavour
PROVATSES – MEATBALLS
Local greens with meatballs and egglemon sauce, fennel flavour
CHICKEN SOUVLAKI
(220gr) marinated with lemon & herbs with french fries and tomato
BEEF
Stew with thyme and mavrodafni (sweet red wine) sauce
IRAKLIAN Goat
Stuffed (rice, liver, herbs), traditional recipe of Easter time in the wood oven
GOAT
Local free grazzing goat meat, slow cooked with Iraklian terra Herbs (minimum a portion of 1200 gr / for 2 person )
A few words about CHEF-PATRON Yiannis Gavalas…
Yiannis Gavalas was born in Athens in 1970. He studied at Granit’s School (Business administration & Hotel Management), at TEI of Athens (Hotel & business administration), at Chef D’ Oeuvre (Culinary & Pastry art ) and finally at OTEK (Department of cooking). He has been present in professional Kitchens since February 1993 when he started his training at the Athenaeum Intercontinental Hotel. Since then he has worked in many restaurants. He is a member of the Hellenic Chefs Club, a member of the Chefs Club of Dodecanese & Cyclades, the Federation of Chefs of Greece, Wacs (World Association Chefs Societes), Euro-Toques (European Chef) and the Gastronomy Club of Mykonos. In March 2017, he participated in the group of Greek Chefs who cooked for the first time at the JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION in New York, presenting the Aegean Cuisine.
Ten years of culinary presence in Mykonos not only as a Chef but also as an amateur photographer. In June 2017 he held a photo exhibition at the Municipal Art Gallery of Mykonos entitled ‘’ Mykonos Under The Surface’’ and theme of underwater Mykonian sea with mobile phone shots.
A few words about “ARAKLIA” (Araklia is called Iraklia by the locals)…
to believe in your dreams, to hope and this faith and hope will help you to realize them. After 26 years of wandering in the kitchens mainly of Athens and the Cyclades, I managed in the summer of 2019 to open my own restaurant utilizing my Father’s house.
I kept the basic layout, I used its furniture for decoration but most of all I struggled to keep its clean energy, the positive aura of welcome that it always had as a home.
At the top of the hill between the port (Agios Georgios) and the main beach of the island (Livadi) just a few minutes from both, overlooking the Microcycladic Polynesia of Schinoussa, Keros, Koufonisi and Amorgos, a clean space, functional , with access for the disabled, with environmental awareness, energy friendly and culinary oriented to the cuisine of the Aegean.
ARAKLIA RESTAURANT
AGIOS GEORGIOS – IRAKLIA CYCLADES 84300
PHONE: 22850 71570 / 6944 862 603
Site : www.yiannisgavalas.gr / www.araklia.gr
Email: gavalaschef@gmail.com / arakliarestaurant@gmail.com