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When tradition meets high art!
With a journey that lasts more than a century, full of innovative ideas, rich, quality flavors and aromas, KONSTANTINIDIS Confectioneries keep alive the memory of Asia Minor and continue to be a landmark in Greek confectionery art!
From a teacher...confectioner!
The connection of the Konstantinidis family with Confectionery begins in the 1890s in Asia Minor, when Grigoris Konstantinidis, a teacher in an elementary school in Constantinople at the time, began working for a wealthy Confectioner in the area, where he first noticed the way sweets were made.
After the Asia Minor Catastrophe, the family is taken to Larissa, where Grigoris and his children Lazaros and Stelios operate a rudimentary confectionery in a shack of the city, called "The Youth". The then seventeen-year-old youngest son Lazaros, with a strong fire inside him for development and progress, goes down to Athens, to be an apprentice, next to famous craftsmen.
The famous millefeuilles of Panagouli Street in Larissa Ten years later, in 1932, Lazaros returns to Larissa and opens the first, modern for the time store, called "Kypseli", on Panagouli Street. The fresh, with pure ingredients but also affordable sweets of the "refugee from Asia Minor", soon became famous and the Pastry gained a reputation for its syrupy mille feuille, kourabiedes and halva. "To get warm, you have to put wood on the fire..." With this allegory, Lazarus explained to his children, when he gathered around the fireplace, that every result requires effort and investment. In 1974, the eldest son of Lazaros, Grigoris, actively enters the business and becomes the continuation of the family tradition, created by his namesake grandfather!
