OUR PHILOSOPHY
About us
Our goal is to provide the highest quality with the best ingredients, to evolve our products based on the principals of the tradition that goes from father to son as well as serving all of our customers with dedication in order to make every visit a unique sensory experience.
Our team
Our pastry chef’s team leaded by our executive pastry chef/ gelatiere Zotos Nikos has up to this day coworkers that have been trained by Anastasis and Nikos Zotos 30 years ago! They have collaborated with 3 different generations of our family!
Quality Zotos
Behind every bite you get there is an unstoppable search of the finest ingredients from every corner of the world, from family owned,local businesses up to the most famous brands worldwide.
We always evolve our skills in order to be always in the centre of innovation in the areas of gelato and pastry with newest machinery, flavours and techniques as our staff is constantly evolving.
Since 1864
Our legacy
1864 - early 1900
Anastasis
Established the first bakery “Melissa” which primarily served baklavas from Ioannina , hard candy , honey halva and pasteli.
early 1900 - 1940’s
Dimitris – Giannis
Kept the family business alive and maintained a bakery of 15 employees , providing work for whole families.
1940’s - 1990’s
Nikolaos – Anastasis
Learned the traditional recipes from their fathers and then Anastasis went to Athens to learn the ’new’ french methods that gave us our all time best sellers the “traditional” and the almond cake
1990’s - 2020
Dimitris
Gave up his job as a marine chief engineer to get in charge of the family’s operations introducing the banana crepe and gelato on the island
2020 - today
Nikos
Following the family’s tradition he studied pastry art and baking in Athens and then went to carpigiani gelato university in Bologna, Italy to learn everything about Italian gelato