Fenix, Manchester – England

Welcome to a light-filled world of flavours and sensations split over two levels. By day, guests arrive at a ground floor space illuminated in yellows and light-browns, hanging barley nodding to age-old agricultural practices that gave Greece the gift of its cuisine. Walls and ceiling charred by the fires of inspiration, a staircase sculpted around a 25-foot olive tree climbs to our upper restaurant. There, natural creams, tans, and a double-height cliff face represent the firebird’s legendary rise and rebirth.As sun falls evening light takes on new tones. Arriving into the Fenix’s nest, warm ambers, rich crimsons and soft pinks create a mesmerising atmosphere on the ground floor, marking that precious time just before night, when the day transforms into something new. Ascend to find the upper restaurant cast in warmer hues, emblematic of new life emerging from what was. All-too-brief instances of perfection, a time of endless possibilities, a story looking for an ending.As the evening evolves so too does Fenix, and the cycle is complete. Transformed by twilight, for moonrise the lower level is bathed in purples, blues, and crystalline silvers. Invoking the sophisticated nightlife institutions that have come to define the Cyclades after dusk, resident and guest DJs provide the soundtrack as light shows capture the imagination.