Deka Trapezia

Deka Trapezia, meaning "Ten Tables", is a compact Cretan meze restaurant at Stratigou Kallari 4 in Ladadika, the old warehouse district beside Thessaloniki's port in Central Macedonia, Greece. The name describes the premise: a room of roughly ten tables where the kitchen serves the food of Crete to a northern Greek city better known for its Macedonian and Asia Minor cooking. The cuisine centres on meze, small plates ordered in rounds and shared, rather than a fixed starter-and-main structure. Among the dishes associated with the restaurant are Cretan pies, the thin pastry parcels of the island's tradition, along with free-form meze plates that change with what the kitchen has available, and house-baked bread used for mopping up olive oil and sauces. There is no formal chef lineage or Michelin context attached to the venue; its reputation rests on a focused menu and a small, busy dining room. The atmosphere is informal and lively. With so few tables, conversation carries across the room and the pace picks up in the evening, especially on weekends when Ladadika fills with diners and drinkers. Dress is casual, and the style suits groups who want to order several plates and share them. Prices sit in the mid range, with meze plates priced for ordering in multiples, so a meal is typically built from four or five dishes between two people. Cretan wines and tsikoudia, the island's grape spirit, are natural companions to this kind of menu, and visitors often ask the staff which regional labels are on the list. Reservation policy is the main practical point: the restaurant is walk-in only and does not take bookings, so a wait is likely at peak times, particularly Friday and Saturday evenings. Opening hours run daily from 1PM to midnight, so arriving mid-afternoon or early in the evening is the most reliable way to secure a table. The location on Stratigou Kallari places it within a short walk of the waterfront, the White Tower area and the Aristotelous Square axis, which makes it easy to combine with an evening stroll through Ladadika's restored buildings.