Like you came back home

In a traditional old house inside Ioannina Castle, near Its Kale, we serve authentic flavors of Epirus cuisine with a small, carefully curated menu. Enjoy handmade traditional pies, fresh salads, and a few daily cooked dishes, prepared on a wood-burning stove (called masina) for distinctive aroma and character. We use local ingredients, support local producers, and offer warm hospitality in the historic heart of Ioannina.

In Epirus, we grew up with a familiar smell filling the house: warm pastry, butter melting slowly, and a pie just pulled from the fire.
Our mother would sit at the kitchen table, rolling out the dough with a wooden pin until it was as thin as paper, while we waited for the moment the pie would go into the stove. That old iron stove burned all day long and somehow the best meals in the house came from it... cooked slowly, patiently.
And somewhere in moments like those, you would always hear the same thing people from Epirus say to their mothers: “Ah, mother… I should open a little place for you, so the whole world can find comfort in your pies.”
That’s more or less how “MANA” was born. With traditional Epirus pies, hand-rolled pastry, and food cooked the old way on the stove... made with good ingredients, care, and a table set the way it used to be…so people can sit, eat, and feel at home.