A family-run restaurant for 150 years, the Old Perithia Taverna has shelves full of dusty farming implements and sepia-coloured family photographs. Almost anything you eat here is outstanding, but the courgette nuggets followed by rabbit stew washed down with rough homemade red wine might turn out to be the best meal you eat in Corfu.
Old Perithia Taverna
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