Salads, Appetizers & Naxian Cheese

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COLD

The Axiotissa tavern will be closed every Tuesday
Homemade organic bread with sourdough, and homemade spread 2.00
Naxian salad, tomato, cucumber, pepper, onion, olives, rocket capers and xinomizithra (soft local cheese) or touloumotyri (a strong white cheese, stronger than feta) 9.50
Tomato salad with touloumotiri cheese and oregano – touloumotiri is a rare naxian white cheese from sheep and goat milk with strong taste 8.50
Lettuce and rocket salad with anchovy fillet dressing, pumpkin seeds and pink peppercorn 9.00
Salad with carob rusk bread and fresh tomato, rocket, xinomizithra and balsamic vinegar 8.00
Salad with rusk bread, rocket, cherry tomatoes and marinated anchovies 9.50
Purslain (portulaca) salad with onions, olives and xinotiro cheese 8.50
Salad with tomato, onion, parsley, olives and xinotiro cheese 9.00
Raw courgette salad with a yogurt-dill dressing 9.00
Mung peas’ salad (organic small green peas more tasty than black-eyed peas) with onion, peppers, dill and rocket 8.00
Tzatziki with yogurt, xinomizithra cream cheese, carrot, garlic and mustard seeds 6.10
Fish roe mousse with white tarama and organic extra virgin olive oil 7.50
Spicy chick pea salad with hot and sweet peppers, onion, olives, fresh coriander and turmeric 7.50
Cycladic smoked pork fillet (louza) served with rocket and basil pesto with pine nuts and kefalotyri cheese 10.00

In the salads we use organic extra virgin olive oil. In our cooking we use extra virgin olive oil, even in frying but in the fried potatoes we use organic sunflower oil. Flours we use are organic. The vegetables are local. The beans and peas are organic from Central Greece. The honey is from Naxos.

HOT

Samphire salad with a baked garlic vinegrette 9.00
Samphire salad with xinotyro cheese and a baked garlic vinegrette 10.00
Baked slices of aubergine with almonds and local cheese 7.70
Cheese pie with apricots in homemade filo pastry 8.50
Organic yellow split peas (fava) with onions and capers 7.80
Humus from organic chick peas with cumin, fresh coriander, hot pepper and garlic 7.50
Saganaki, fried naxian cheese kefalotyri 7.80
Fried kefalotyri with local thyme honey and sesame seeds 8.50
Cheese balls with local cheese (local recipe) and local thyme honey on top 7.50
Grilled hot feta (from Kefalonia Island) with chili and sweet peppers, garlic, olives and tomato 8.60
Pita with local unsalted cheese mizithra rolled in fylo pastry, and local thyme honey on top 8.50
Armenian sausage, spicy and aromatic, baked in the oven with graviera cheese, feta, garlic and tomato 8.90

Naxian Cheese

Xinomyzithra, fresh soft sour cheesefrom sheep and goat milk 5.80
Graviera of Naxos, a yellow mild cheese from cow milk 5.80
Arseniko, naxian kefalotyri, a hard spicy strong cheese from sheep or goat milk – the famous local cheese 5.80
Anthotyro, a cheese with a fatty taste 5.80
Plate of local cheese for 2 persons 9.50
Plate of local cheese for 4 persons 14.50

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