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Nisiotiko takes a more polished route than the city's bare-table ouzeries, packing a formal dining room and pavement terrace close to the lighthouse. The kitchen sends out spicy octopus, fresh calamari, shrimp, mushroom orzo and warm house bread with a sharper plating style than a standard fish taverna.
Alexis keeps the ouzeri format plain: pavement tables near the ferry boarding point, ouzo on ice and small seafood plates arriving quickly. Travellers with a sailing to catch can order grilled sardines, calamari, shrimp with feta and salads without signing up for a long formal dinner.
Gialos places its outer tables directly beside the water on Apolloniados, west of Alexandroupoli's port. Families and seafood groups order red mullet, grilled octopus, calamari, mussels, stuffed vine leaves and beetroot meze while ferries and fishing boats move across the view.
