At Astoria Bar Ke Grill, owner Nik Pouloupatis is drawing on his mum’s home cooking for a menu of Greece’s greatest hits – plus ouzo mojitos and mastiha sours.

Former Greek prime minister Costas Simitis, who led the country into the European Union’s single currency in 2001, died aged 88 at his summer house in the Peloponnese. Simitis, a law professor and a ...