There is a terrace in Thisio where dinner comes with the Acropolis in view. It belongs to Makris Athens, Chef Patron Petros Dimas's Michelin-starred restaurant, and it has made room for our extra virgin olive oil: Oleve Monocultivar Kolovi.
One olive variety in the bottle, one Michelin star on the door. We like the symmetry.
One olive, unblended
Kolovi is the native olive of Lesvos, and it grows on our estate in Sigri among the twelve varieties we tend there. Monocultivar Kolovi is made from Kolovi olives alone, unblended with any other oil, and certified organic. What you taste belongs to that one olive and that one place.
A Michelin star opposite the Acropolis
Makris takes its name from the ancient name of Corfu, where the restaurant began in 2018 at Domes Miramare. It travelled on through the Domes resorts and found its home in Athens, in a historic building in Thisio, opposite the Ancient Agora and the Acropolis.
Its first Michelin star came 15 months after the doors opened. In 2026 the World Culinary Awards named it Europe's Best Restaurant, and Greece's Best Restaurant for the third year in a row.
In the kitchen is Chef Patron Petros Dimas, the mind behind every Makris in the Domes resorts. His degustation menus are built on Greek produce, the seasons and a good dose of theatre, and the wines are curated by Yannis Karakasis MW.
From their farm, and from ours
The restaurant has its own farm, at the foot of ancient Corinth: greenhouses, vegetable gardens and beds where vines, olives, vegetables and herbs are grown organically, with no chemical fertilisers or pesticides, and the kitchen's scraps go back to the soil as compost. Their menus start there and with small Greek producers.
We know the feeling. Our Kolovi in Sigri is grown organically too, fed with compost made from Posidonia oceanica, a seagrass gathered on the island. So our oil at Makris starts the same way their vegetables do: in the ground, with care.
Next time you're in Athens, book a table and see the Acropolis from Thisio. And if you run a restaurant or hotel and want Oleve in your kitchen, let's talk.
Photos: Makris Athens.
