Gazi

The Gazi is the new cool place to be in Athens, full of restaurants, cafes, music, and art by the old city gas-works which has been turned into a museum-cultural center that may be unique in all of Europe.

Normally I would consider it a kind of defeat for a New York Times Travel writer to beat me to the punch and write about an up-and-coming neighborhood of Athens before I did. But in the case of Gazi I had plenty of opportunities to 'scoop' the NYT and chose not to. Why? Because often in Greece 'up-and-coming' actually means 'not there yet' as in the case of the Gazi, the neighborhood around and including the former gas-works of Athens. And though it was not there yet when the Times article was written, it is certainly now, eclipsing Psiri as the best place to be at night