Restaurant in Athens, Greece
Rooftop dining with Acropolis views that earns it.
GB Roof Garden holds back-to-back Michelin Plate recognition (2024 and 2025) and a 4.7-star rating across nearly 2,400 reviews, making it one of Athens's most reliable upper-mid dining choices. The Mediterranean menu and Acropolis views from the Grande Bretagne rooftop justify the €€€ price tag for a special evening. Book ahead in summer; easy to secure outside peak season.
With 2,385 Google reviews averaging 4.7 stars and back-to-back Michelin Plate recognition in 2024 and 2025, GB Roof Garden is one of the most consistently rated dining destinations in Athens. At €€€ pricing with a rooftop setting directly above Syntagma Square, this is a direct recommendation for food-forward travellers who want serious Mediterranean cooking with one of the city's most recognised views. Book it — but read the context below before you decide when and how.
GB Roof Garden sits on leading of the Grande Bretagne, Athens's most storied luxury hotel on Syntagma Square, and the room's energy reflects that address. The atmosphere here is not quiet or intimate: expect a buzzing, open-air terrace where the ambient noise of the city below mixes with a well-heeled crowd. The sound level is animated rather than loud, making it workable for conversation at dinner without having to lean across the table , though this is not the place to negotiate a contract or have a delicate personal discussion. The setting gives you Acropolis and Lycabettus Hill sightlines that genuinely matter for first-time visitors to Athens, and the mood in the evening skews celebratory and occasion-oriented.
The cuisine is Mediterranean, executed at a standard that has earned Michelin Plate recognition two years running. A Michelin Plate is not a star , it signals food worth noting, prepared with care, rather than destination-grade technical ambition. That framing is useful here: GB Roof Garden is cooking confidently at the upper end of hotel restaurant quality, but diners arriving with star-chasing expectations should recalibrate. Think refined Mediterranean sharing plates with Greek produce at their core, the kind of cooking that rewards a slow, wine-led evening more than a sprint through a tasting menu.
For a city where rooftop dining is genuinely competitive, the combination of Michelin recognition, a 4.7-star rating across nearly 2,400 independent reviews, and the Syntagma Square address puts GB Roof Garden ahead of most alternatives at this price point. Compare it against Aleria or Hytra at similar or adjacent price bands and GB wins on setting; it competes with them on food quality. That is a strong value proposition for travellers who are not eating every night at Michelin-starred rooms.
This is not a venue built for delivery or takeout, and there is no evidence in the available data to suggest that off-premise ordering is a meaningful part of what GB Roof Garden does. A Michelin Plate hotel rooftop at €€€ pricing is fundamentally an in-room experience: the Acropolis view, the ambient energy, the service polish of a Grande Bretagne property , none of that travels. If you are looking for high-quality Mediterranean food that travels well in Athens, venues like Aneton or Okio may serve that need more practically. For GB Roof Garden, the honest answer is: book the table or skip it entirely. There is no compelling off-premise case here.
The address is Georgiou A' 1, Athina 105 64 , the Grande Bretagne hotel on Syntagma Square, which is one of Athens's most accessible central addresses. Booking is rated Easy, meaning you should be able to secure a table without weeks of lead time in most periods outside peak summer. That said, rooftop seats with Acropolis sightlines are finite, and for prime evening slots in July and August, or around major Greek public holidays, booking a week or more ahead is a sensible precaution. The price band of €€€ places this in the upper-mid range for Athens: meaningfully more than a neighbourhood taverna, but not at the four-symbol level of Spondi or Tudor Hall. Phone and hours data are not confirmed in our current records , check the Grande Bretagne hotel's website directly for reservation availability and current operating hours.
Travellers exploring the broader Athens dining and hospitality scene can find our full curated guides covering Athens restaurants, Athens hotels, Athens bars, Athens wineries, and Athens experiences. For rooftop and terrace dining across Greece, consider also Aktaion in Firostefani, Lycabettus in Oia, and Koukoumavlos in Fira as points of reference for what refined Greek terrace dining looks like across the islands. For broader Mediterranean comparisons, La Brezza in Ascona and Arnaud Donckele & Maxime Frédéric at Louis Vuitton in Saint-Tropez illustrate how the Mediterranean fine-dining category performs at higher price tiers elsewhere in Europe.
| Venue | Cuisine | Awards | Booking Difficulty | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB Roof Garden | Mediterranean Cuisine | Michelin Plate (2025); Michelin Plate (2024) | Easy | — |
| Botrini's | Contemporary Greek, Mediterranean Cuisine | Michelin 1 Star | Unknown | — |
| Hytra | Modern Greek, Modern Cuisine | Michelin 1 Star | Unknown | — |
| Spondi | Contemporary Greek, French | Michelin 1 Star | Unknown | — |
| Tudor Hall | Contemporary | Michelin 1 Star | Unknown | — |
| Aleria | Greek | Unknown | — |
Key differences to consider before you reserve.
For a similar price point with more focused tasting-menu credentials, Spondi (two Michelin stars) is the stronger call. Hytra offers a more contemporary Greek approach at comparable spend. Tudor Hall, also rooftop and centrally located, is the closest like-for-like swap if your priority is the view and the occasion rather than the kitchen's ambition. Botrini's and Aleria are worth considering if you want a chef-driven, modern Greek experience over a hotel-dining setting.
GB Roof Garden holds back-to-back Michelin Plate recognition (2024 and 2025), which signals consistent quality rather than destination-kitchen ambition. At €€€, you are paying partly for the setting on top of the Grande Bretagne with Acropolis sightlines, so if the room and occasion matter as much as the plate, the value equation works. If you are optimising purely for culinary output at this spend, Spondi's two-star kitchen delivers more.
Yes — this is one of the stronger special-occasion calls in central Athens. The address (Grande Bretagne, Syntagma Square), Michelin Plate recognition two years running, and a €€€ price point combine to signal the right level of occasion without requiring a trek outside the city centre. Couples and small groups of four or fewer will get the most from the setting; larger parties should confirm private space availability when booking.
The venue data does not specify a dress code, but the context is clear: this is a rooftop restaurant at one of Athens's premier luxury hotels with Michelin Plate recognition and €€€ pricing. Treat it accordingly — smart, polished dress is the safe choice. Overly casual clothing would be out of place.
Specific booking windows are not confirmed in the available data, but at a €€€ Michelin-recognised rooftop on Syntagma Square, demand peaks hard in summer and around public holidays. Booking at least two to three weeks out is a reasonable baseline; for weekend evenings in high season (June through September), further in advance is safer. Check the Grande Bretagne hotel's reservations channel directly.
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