We’ve visited Avra each time we’ve visited Mykonos and the location can’t be faulted. It has a beautiful courtyard setting in the middle of town and you’ll dine surrounded by bougainvillea.
Alas, the positives end there. It feels like the menu has not changed in...decades. The waiting staff seem focussed on turning tables, presenting each course immediately the last one has finished, and recommending their preferred wines without any courtesy or warmth being shown to the diner.
When it comes to the food, there’s nothing much wrong with it, but it’s hardly exciting either. Rather dry chicken souvlaki with some aubergine and half a baked potato, and pork served with lumpy mashed potato and that aubergine again!
Mykonos is packed with great places to eat, but I’m afraid that it feels that the glory days of Avra have long gone. It needs a new menu and a new approach or I fear it will be overtaken by more inspiring offerings. Sad.More