Vasilis Strounis, a master of handmade bread, a craftsman of good tsoureki.
His grandfather and namesake Vasilis Strounis history. Since 1946. Ierissos.
On the same main road that leads to the beach, since the village had no electricity!
It is as a preserved gastronomic monument, as a point of reference.

The Wood-fired Oven Strounis is the Ierissos brand.
Powerful, real scenes of kneading bread. Early in the morning.
Dough rising and resting.
Baking secrets.
Temperature ups and downs.
Baking with mastery.
Oven with sand from Ierissos and salt in the base!
Breads of all kinds: white, from whole meal flour, from corn, sourdough, rustic, round, long, yellow rye, multigrain, buns, koulouri (Top), lagana, cheese bread, oil bread with tomatoes and garlic, garlic bread, Limnio bread – recipes from about a century ago.
Bread with a full, authentic flavor.
Like a gastronomic masterpiece.
«Filema» (treatment), offering in Ierissos.

Strounis’ bread is also a memory.
It characterizes the destination.
Vasilis has been spinning in the oven since he was 12 years old.
He studied engineering, but his genes kept him there.

And on the other hand, is Strounis’ famous tsoureki. This is also a recipe from a century ago.
A virtual walk in the he gastronomic history of Ierissos.
Epic.
Made with local butter and day-old eggs.
Ask for it.
Smell it.

Biscuits. Pizza. Boureki. Koulouri. Raisin bread fill with Greek raisins.
Pies.
If you close your eyes, you will see Vasilis preparing the pie crust.
Strounis’ pies are identified with Ierissos.

Ah!
why would every place have such a wood-fired oven,
and such a Vasilis
to create such bread in every small homeland?