BACCHUS
Βάκχος · god of wine and the table
Bacchus was the god of wine, celebration and the pleasures of the table.
On the shores of Messonghi, his spirit feels at home.
Messonghi Beach • Corfu
A taste
of Corfu,
by the sea.
Fresh fish from local fishermen, Corfiot recipes from the family kitchen, and a table with the Ionian at your feet.
OPEN MAY – OCTOBER • 11:00 – 23:00Scroll
01 / The story · since 1993
A family,
a kitchen,
a beach.
It began with a fisherman. Nikos, Yanna's father, took his boat out from this beach every morning, and for years the fish on the Bacchus grill came off his nets. Thirty-three years ago Dimitris opened the taverna on the same sand, at the end of the boardwalk in the south of Corfu. Many on the island will tell you he was the best chef in Corfu — the man who met the fishing boats in the morning and carried the day's catch through the terrace to show his guests.
He is no longer with us. Yanna and the family — the third generation now — carry on his legacy: the same recipes, the same fish from the same boats, the same tables on the sand.
The menu is Corfiot and Greek: whole fish and langoustines from the grill, lamb from the oven, soutzoukakia in tomato, baklava from the tray. Every summer from May to October, lunch runs into evening, and evening runs into the sea.
— Yanna & family
The host
Yanna keeps
the table.
From the first summer with Dimitris to today, Yanna has welcomed every guest to Bacchus. She knows who wants the table closest to the water, which wine goes with the sea bream, and which regulars are back this year.
If you have eaten here before, she will probably remember you. And the fish still arrives the way Dimitris wanted it — whole, that morning, from the boats you can see from your table.
02 / From the sea
Today's
catch.
“What arrives from the sea decides part of today's menu.”
Local fishermen land in Messonghi in the morning. Whole sea bream and red snapper go on the grill and are filleted at the table, prawns and langoustines are grilled with lemon or cooked in tomato. Ask what came in — it changes daily.
- Red snapper & sea breamgrilled · filleted at the table
- Swordfishwhen the boats bring it
- King prawns & langoustinesgrilled · or in tomato
- Red mulletsmall · fried crisp
Food.
Wine.
Sea.
Corfu.
04 / Bacchus
“A table by the sea deserves a bottle between friends.”
Greek wines by the glass or the bottle, chosen to sit beside grilled fish and lamb from the coals. Ask Yanna — she knows which one goes with the sunset.
05 / The place
Sand, salt,
and supper.
06 / Evenings
When the plates
are cleared,
the dancing starts.
Greek nights with live music and Corfiot dancers, weddings on the sand, birthdays that run past midnight. Bacchus hosts them all — ask Yanna about groups and celebrations.
Guests return.
Year after year.
Many of our guests have eaten with us summer after summer. Read what they say — or come and write your own.
“The tables practically sit in the glass-clear Ionian sea with views of the mountains. What better place for a drink and a chat?”
“We ate in Bacchus several times during the week as the fantastic food kept drawing us back.”
- Where
- Messonghi Beach, 49080 Corfu, Greece
At the end of the boardwalk, on the sand. - Hours
- Daily 11:00 – 23:00 (Mon to 23:30)
Season: May – October - Phone
- +30 26610 75301
- +30 693 469 3732
- info@bacchus.gr