Noble Gourmet

The Restaurant

Noble Gourmet is the flagship fine-dining restaurant at Elysium Resort & Spa, on Kallithea Avenue on the northeast coast of Rhodes about a fifteen-minute drive from Rhodes Town. The dining room faces directly over the Aegean; the outdoor terrace, where most dinners are served between May and October, sits on a low cliff edge with unbroken sea view. Thirty covers inside, twenty-four outside.

Chef George Troumouhis and head chef Spyros Kougios cook a seven- or nine-course Greek tasting menu that takes Rhodian dishes apart and rebuilds them at Michelin-level technical polish. The signature pitaroudi pie with crab and mushrooms, the lamb kapama with marinated eggplants, the grilled octopus with fava and caper leaf — each arrives as a recognisable Greek dish with the seriousness of a Scandinavian tasting kitchen. The restaurant won the Greek Cuisine Award in both 2018 and 2019.

The wine list is the most comprehensive in Rhodes with nearly four hundred references, heavily weighted toward Greek producers — Assyrtiko from Santorini, Malagousia from Macedonia, Xinomavro from Naoussa, including several wines from the island itself. The by-the-glass programme is generous and expertly selected. Service runs in European five-star tempo, in English and Greek. The Michelin Guide will get here eventually.