The Restaurant
Cesar Meze Bar is a small rooftop restaurant on Acropolis Street in Lindos, ten minutes' walk from Mavrikos and a few terraces below the Acropolis itself. The dining area is open-air under canvas stretched between old olive timbers; thirty-two covers; lighting by candle and paper lantern. The room at sunset is one of the prettiest eating spaces in the Dodecanese.
The kitchen was formed by a chef who trained in Thessaloniki and Athens before opening Cesar in 2016 and has rebuilt traditional Greek meze with modern-gastronomy technique: smoked aubergine mousse with pomegranate glass, a deconstructed tomato keftedes with basil oil, an octopus tataki with ouzo-cured citrus, a lamb belly slow-cooked over grapevine wood. The 2019 Greek Cuisine Award recognises exactly this kind of reinvention.
Because the menu is meze-format, the ordering works naturally for groups of any size from two to ten. Wine is entirely Greek, prices are honest, and the rooftop breeze gives an evening on Rhodes the kind of exposure no indoor room can match. Booking is essential for the terrace edge seats at sunset.
Why This Is Rhodes’s First Date Pick
For a first date on Rhodes — or an island holiday's first evening — Cesar Meze Bar is the contemporary pick. The rooftop setting is photogenic without being performative. The meze format removes menu pressure; both diners order the same shared set of plates. Service is warm, the sommelier can steer first-time Greek wine drinkers well, and the pricing is calibrated for a serious but not ostentatious first evening. A walk through the Lindos lanes afterwards is unavoidable.
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