Athens for The Night Owls: a Friday-to-Monday weekend

A rooftop bar above Monastiraki square with the Acropolis filling the view and the lights coming on; one drink, and the city below is the plan.

Pork chops and chips, nothing else, on paper plates in a bright room since 1978; it feeds the market and the late crowd until one.

A bar, a garden and a gig room in the lanes behind Monastiraki; live bands most nights, DJs after, and the garden at three in the morning.

Brunch in the food-hall atrium under the hotel, eggs with pastourma and a coffee, taken late by everyone who was out on Friday.

Concerts in the old gasworks quarter, a roof terrace facing the lit Acropolis, and a bar between sets; the programme covers jazz to Greek rock.

A club in a 1960s magazine printworks near Omonia, with local DJs and a ground-floor bar; the door is easy and the sound is good.

Sunday lunch in a dim, narrow Kolonaki room of home cooking, rabbit stifado and a Santorini white, taken slowly; the afternoon is for sleep.

An open-air cinema on a Plaka roof since 1920, the Acropolis above the screen and a beer at the seat; May to October, two shows a night.

The bar that put Athens on the cocktail map, in a neoclassical house with a room upstairs for members; order from the list and trust it.

Kourou pies from a shop that has fed Syntagma since 1910, open at dawn for the office workers and the last of the night.

Shaded paths, a duck pond and benches under the palms for a slow morning; the garden opens at dawn and nobody checks what time you went to bed.

Kebab in pita at the long tables by the square, no reservation, the taxi drivers' choice since 1964; the airport metro is across the square.