Argiro Barbarigou In the mid-90’s she opened her first restaurant, Papadakis in Paros to great acclaim, luring megayachts, locals and tourists in search of Argiro’s farm-to-fabulous, sea-to-sensational dishes served up at the water’s edge of Naoussa’s picturesque port. It was there in Paros that she found her core ideal ‘Nothing compares to a Greek mothers, cooking.It is these ideals that she has shared with Greeks through her cooking, her books, her restaurants and TV shows and it is her greatest goal to export this ethos to the globe.

From there she’d expand her gastronomical prowess by studying French cuisine in London and Paris.Today that culinary journey culminates at her second wildly successful Papadakis restaurant, set at the foothills of Mt. Lycabettus in the heart of Athens. She has represented both Greece and the European Union in countless events, ranging from cooking for Congress, to Ambassadoring South Aegean Mediterranean Cuisine at the 32nd Annual Chefs Tribute of the James Beard Foundation, Meal on Wheels NY.