The pitch: an editor's read on Faust
Faust sits at Kalamiotou 11 in the Monastiraki-Psyri overlap, a five-minute walk from the metro and ten from Syntagma. The room runs on three rotating concepts: a main-floor cocktail bar, a basement cabaret room with weekend shows, and a small front bar for walk-in drinkers. Time Out Athens's 2024 nightlife coverage called Faust "the most-recommended late-night room in central Athens."
This is the bar for a visitor who wants Athens nightlife without the Kolokotroni-strip queue. The cabaret programme rotates between drag, burlesque and indie theatre on Friday and Saturday; the cocktail programme is competent and reasonably priced. Regulars on r/Athens consistently flag Faust as the city's most-recommended late-night destination outside the Exarcheia bar circuit.
The room: a closer read
The room is three: a main bar with bistro tables and a small DJ booth, a basement cabaret room (capacity 60) with proper stage lighting, and a front bar that runs as overflow. The Athens English-language press has covered Faust's programming for over a decade. Greek City Times described the basement as "the closest Athens has to a Berlin cabaret room."
The closest Athens has to a Berlin cabaret room.
What to order, and what to skip
Drinks are mid-tier cocktails — solid rather than groundbreaking. Order classics or the house signatures.
Skip the long-format frozen cocktails; the bar is built for spirit-forward serves at speed.
The crowd: who shows up, and when
The crowd splits by room. The basement is Athens cabaret regulars and the city's queer-friendly nightlife crowd on show nights; the main floor is mixed early-30s Athenians and visiting Europeans; the front bar is walk-in. Greek City Times flagged Faust as "the city's most-recommended queer-friendly late-night bar in central Athens."
What regulars say
- “Friday cabaret is the move. Skip Monday — they’re closed anyway.” (r/Athens nightlife thread, 2024)
- “The Mastiha Sour is genuinely good. Most central Athens bars do mastiha as a gimmick.” (Google Maps review, March 2025)
- “Most welcoming late-night room I’ve been to in central Athens.” (Google Maps review, October 2025)
- “The basement programming is the reason. The bar is the bonus.” (Athens Insider reader comment)
Who it is for
- Late-night visitors who want cabaret or indie theatre on a Friday or Saturday.
- Queer-friendly nightlife crowd looking for a central Athens room with proper programming.
- Visitors who want Athens nightlife outside Kolokotroni and Exarcheia.
- Avoid if you came for a quiet wine bar or a high-end cocktail programme. Heteroclito covers the first.