Costas Spiliadis, a young Greek intellectual, leaves home for North America to pursue university studies. Settling in Montréal, he is inspired by the new psaraotavernas, simple fish restaurants. He takes the next step, soon to be his lifetime pursuit: Beginning with estiatorio Milos Montréal, he becomes the champion of authentic Greek food abroad.

Costas’ original, groundbreaking Milos opens in 1979 in the Mile End neighborhood of Montréal, with him as chef and owner. It is innovative, one of the first restaurants to feature an open kitchen as well as a fish market where guests are invited to select the seafood of their choice. Spiliadis spares no effort in sourcing the most delicious products of Greece and other prized locations throughout the world. His preparations, painstakingly uncomplicated, are a revelation. The restaurant undergoes a revitalization in 2015, expanding and polishing the space.

Awarded four stars by the Montreal Gazette in 2008 and 2000; featured as “one of the world’s most famous Greek restaurants” in MIXTE Magazine in 2021.

The Athens Olympic Games and Milos Athens open almost as one, bringing the finest Greek restaurant in the world to Spiliadis’ native land. A new home arises in 2021, in the first xenodocheio Milos. The boutique hotel features the same beloved marble and light wood décor that have become symbolic of Milos restaurants. The rooms have private terraces and views of the storied buildings of Athens. The new restaurant is the most intimate Milos, even if the ceiling, featuring an artistic sculpture of a fisherman’s net, soars far overhead.

Here, on the Arabian Gulf of the United Arab Emirates, guests will find extraordinary, uninterrupted views — the Dubai skyline on one side, the Gulf on the other. The hotel promises six-meter-high ceilings — that’s a shade short of 20 feet! — Greek marble floors, as well as sliding floor-to-ceiling glass doors that pull back to reveal a delicious surprise: a central platform within the ornate kitchen where guests are invited to dine. The magnificent multi-level dining area boasts 220 indoor seats, three private dining rooms (one on the rooftop), and a terrace that promises extraordinary views during daylight and romance in the waning hours. Not to be forgotten is the magnificent seafood of Milos, flown in from the Mediterranean and, as always, fit for a sheikh.

Only a short walk from Piccadilly Circus, situated in the former British Columbia House in Westminster, with huge wooden doors that open wide to welcome guests, Milos London combines the unsurpassed elegance of London with the unassuming charm of Greece. Mediterranean seafood reigns, as always, in harmony with local selections from the Bay of Biscay. This Milos, opened in 2015, is situated within London’s bustling business district. Extraordinary architecture sets the tone and includes a magnificent space for private events. The essential elements of Milos — marble, light wood, and Grecian urns — are complemented by the formal elegance of a circa 1915 building. In the very center is the crown jewel of Milos hospitality, a signature fish market.

Winner of The Harden’s award for The Best Fish & Seafood London Restaurant of the Year 2017 and winner of AA’s Rosette Award for Culinary Excellence in 2015-2017.

This stunning new Milos, located in the opulent Venetian Resort, boasts up-to-date surprises. As always, freshly caught fish is displayed whole on ice, but that is only the overture to a symphony of seafood pleasures. A dazzling raw bar, a new Milos concept, features whole fish sashimi, crudo and tartare alongside freshly shaken cocktails and enticing Greek wines. Guests are invited to select fruits and vegetables at a produce market and visit the yogurt room, where incomparable Greek yogurt is strained through cheesecloth, in the traditional manner. The Venetian became Milos’ beautiful new home on the Las Vegas Strip in 2021. A spacious main dining room and a choice of private dining rooms offer a multitude of ways to see and be seen in this buzzing, dazzling estiatorio.

Called the “ultimate sophisticated power lunch spot” by Condé Nast Traveler in 2021; “an amazing experience” said Las Vegas Magazine in 2021; “fine Greek food, incredibly fresh seafood,” said USA Today’s 10Best in 2021.

The first Milos in Mexico, a collaboration with the Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts. Idyllic Los Cabos is located on the Baja California Peninsula, looking out at the Sea of Cortez, a UNESCO site that French explorer Jacques Cousteau famously called “the world’s aquarium.” At the Four Seasons, you will discover Baja’s unexplored East Cape. Two miles of pristine private beachfront offers total relaxation and welcome privacy. The modern elegance of the resort is very much in harmony with the local Mexican culture.

This hidden gem of a hotel with its Milos restaurant opened in 2019, to acclaim that includes Conde Nast Traveler’s Hot List, Departures’ Best Restaurants and Financial Times’ How to Spend It.

Steps from South Beach, where the waters of the Atlantic and the Caribbean merge, in the vibrant and often dramatized South of Fifth District, Milos offers seafood in an unequalled seaside setting. The indoor space is gorgeously rustic, boasting marble floors and a beamed ceiling of blond wood. Diaphanous white curtains divide the main dining room, and a private room filled with wooden bookshelves evokes a candlelit library.

Still, this is Florida, where dining outdoors is impossibly alluring. The energy of Miami combined with the rhythm of the tropics results in an ambience unlike any other, amplified by seafood unlike any other: chef Costas Spiliadis has found local fishermen to supply the glorious stone crabs of the Florida Keys.

Named one of Ocean Drive’s Best Seafood Restaurants in Miami in 2021; featured in the Absolute Best of South Beach by Purewow in 2020.

We are proud to be the centerpiece of a brand-new Manhattan neighborhood. Hudson Yards is west of Times Square and offers the matchless seafood of Milos served high up, with unrivaled views of the spectacular sunsets that illuminate the Hudson River. The stunning new Hudson Yards location features views of sky and river, presented in hues of blue that shift as the hours go by. As you view the passing boats, you might believe you are in Greece.

Milos Hudson Yards opened in 2019, in a bi-level space featuring the restaurant on the sixth floor and a wine bar at the fifth-floor entry point. A spiral staircase carved from marble leads to the main dining room. Once there, an immediate showpiece is a long, lovely marble bar that runs the length of the room, starting near the entrance and concluding a few steps from a terrace that overlooks the river and is reserved for private functions. Light woods, signature Milos urns, and other relics set the mood — the past and present merging impeccably.

A Forbes’ editors’ pick for best dining in New York in 2021; one of Vogue’s “most anticipated restaurants” at Hudson Yards in 2019.

With its Manhattan opening in 1997, Milos becomes the very first Montréal restaurant ever to expand beyond that city. Daringly, chef Costas Spiliadis has selected the most demanding restaurant city in the world for his second Milos. The restaurant is a sensation; New Yorkers have never experienced Greek food so elegant, so pristine.

Milos New York, assuredly high-end, is the first Greek restaurant of its kind. It features warm hospitality and a large, airy, open space with a high ceilings and décor that incorporates cultural artifacts such as earthenware jars and urns. It establishes itself as an ambassador for Greek dining, with a focus on market pricing, family-style sharing, impeccably fresh seafood simply prepared, superb vegetables and fruits, and artisanal olive oil and yogurt imported from Greece. New Yorkers immediately warm to this new and elegant perspective on Greek cuisine. A renovation later expands the restaurant to open a spacious lower level, meeting demand for private events.

Named one of New York’s Top Seafood Restaurants by Thrillist in 2021; International Cuisine winner of the 2017 Concierge Choice Awards; called “one of the best Greek restaurants in the world,” by GQ in 2010.

As you’re about to step into the tiny elevator, or perhaps start up the marble staircase that leads to the central Milos dining area, you can’t help but notice an alluring bar right in front of you. Who can resist a drink before dinner, a New York tradition? A destination in its own right, the Wine Bar offers a menu of small plates and seafood specialties along with its unique offering of 100 Greek wines, most unavailable elsewhere in the city. Unfamiliar with Greek wines? Ours are sourced from the volcanic terroir of Santorini to the mountainous slopes of the Peloponnese. Should you be uncertain which wine to try, the wine bar team will be pleased to guide you. One additional pleasure awaits. Ask your waiter to play something smooth and soft on the bar’s vintage record player, spinning vinyl, of course.

“Swank wine bar at New York’s new upscale Hudson Yards destination… serving 100 wines that have the opportunity to tell 100 stories,” said Forbes in 2019.