Tinos has many quaint little coffee shops as well as cosmopolitan cafes where one can have a coffee in a pleasant ambiance. In Hora, there are the cafes "Mesklie", "Xembarko", and "Zigos". In picturesque Pirgos, visitors can taste local sweets under the plane trees at the village's central coffee shop. The island's restaurants and tavernas serve tasty seafood and traditional specialties, such as roast sausage, sweet cheese patties, "louzes" from smoked pork, local cheeses like "kopanisti" and "mizithra", spaghetti, pigeons cooked with tomatoes, as well as excellent local meat. In Hora, there are the fish taverna "Dionysus", which serves fresh fish, "Michalis' Taverna", "Rodia", which offers wonderful titbits, and "Xinari". A walk to Ktikados can be combined with eating at "Drossia", where they serve delicious "fourtalia" and sausage omelettes. In Triantaros, one should eat at "Lefkes". In Panormos, there is a very good restaurant called "Veggera", which also functions as a bar at night. Lastly, there are lovely little tavernas in Kalloni, Steni, Volakas, Falatados, Kionia, Agios Ioannis, and Krokos.