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What to buy
Our dish — the plate we'd order here firstGül baklava (Τριαντάφυλλα)
Baklava rolled into roses, filled with pistachio, in syrup
Where it comes fromAthens' own
Constantinople's confectioners came with the refugees of 1922 and kept their syrup and cream sweets alive in the shops of Nea Ionia and Nea Smyrni.
Sources: Athens Voice (2022); SKAI (2022).
At Maxim Patisserie
Baked by hand to the recipes its owners brought with them from Galata, a syrup pastry to take with an afternoon coffee.
From Maxim Patisserie's own menu and pages, as we read them in October 2026.
Also in our bag
- A mastic tsoureki, the braided bread, home
Maxim Patisserie
Greek · Constantinopolitan pastry shop · Nea Smyrni, Athens
Tsakiroglou 23, 171 22 Nea Smyrni
A family pastry shop in Nea Smyrni keeping the sweets its owners grew up with in Constantinople.
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