Dinning in Mykonos - famous restaurants and hotels.
Alefkandra is one of the most famous Mykonos restaurants on the island. It is situated on the beach of the "Little Venice", the island's trademark.
Ithaki is a new built restaurants situated on the most famous beach of Mykonos, Paradise. The owner is a sculptor who also proposes sculpting courses in summer. The food served there is delicious.
Alexis offers you homemade traditional food, great starters variety, roasted food on coals since 1970...Quick service. The 30 years experience and the great service will satisfy you. The room is available for companies.
Avra (The Breeze) Restaurant provides excellent food, efficient service, intimate ambiance and reasonable prices, satisfying even the most demanding customers.
These restaurants I recommend because they are still Greek and relatively inexpensive (not outrageously overpriced): Kounelas, Giavroutas, Ithaki (Paradise Beach), Vasoula (Agios Stefanos), and Caprice as long as there are no millionaires distracting the staff. There are many fast-food places and some of them are terrific so don't be afraid that eating will send you home broke. For ouzo get the small pikilia at Sirenes on the waterfront. If you are hungry get the large. It's the last cafe from the taxi stand. Don't forget to have a souvlaki at Alexis.
There are so many hotels, cafes and clubs and bars that it would take all day to list them. Mykonos has the best nightlife in Greece and that means it has the best nightlife in the world. No kidding. There are flyers posted around town or handed out on the street with different events, concerts, openings and whatever.
The town of Mykonos is one of the best examples of Cycladic architecture and is a maze of streets and alleys so that you never know where you will end up. But along the way you will see things that may surprise you, from a branch of your favorite boutique that you assumed only existed in Manhattan, to expensive French restaurants, traditional churches, gold shops, taverns, an internet cafe and a pelican named Peter who would be in his mid sixties had he not been replaced so often.
You can find a lot of good restaurants in the hotels, with European and Greek excellent food.
My favorite shops, which are incidentally the two most practical, are the Fruit Center, which of course sells fruit and the International Press Center where you will probably be able to find your favorite newspaper, magazine or book, no matter where you come from. Coming from Kea where the only newspapers you can find are in Greek or Albanian this was like finding paradise.