Can this be true? When reading Lonely Planet's section on Naxos we found out their favorite restaurant was Picasso which they claimed served excellent fajitas and margaritas. Well as any Texan will tell you, a week without Tex Mex is a week without sunshine. Being true Texans we had to put the restaurant to our rigorous standards. We had two opportunities in 2009 while crossing the Med to try so called Tex Mex Restaurants and both came up very short so our expectations were not high.
We found our way to Picasso's for dinner and first up were the margaritas, chips and salsa. Excellent! Then on to the beef fajitas with all the trimmings. Excellent!! Picasso's can hold it's own to any Mexican restaurant back home. Surly the owner must be from or had lived in Texas. Turns out our table was next to the owners, Debbie and Stratos. We had a nice conversation and learned that Debbie was actually from Canada and Stratos was Greek. They met in Canada and moved to Naxos to enjoy the "idyllic" Greek island lifestyle. They opened the restaurant back in 96, hired a chef trained in Santa Fe and have been serving great food ever since. So if you're in the neighborhood and are missing Tex Mex....
We found our way to Picasso's for dinner and first up were the margaritas, chips and salsa. Excellent! Then on to the beef fajitas with all the trimmings. Excellent!! Picasso's can hold it's own to any Mexican restaurant back home. Surly the owner must be from or had lived in Texas. Turns out our table was next to the owners, Debbie and Stratos. We had a nice conversation and learned that Debbie was actually from Canada and Stratos was Greek. They met in Canada and moved to Naxos to enjoy the "idyllic" Greek island lifestyle. They opened the restaurant back in 96, hired a chef trained in Santa Fe and have been serving great food ever since. So if you're in the neighborhood and are missing Tex Mex....
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