The Rough Guide to Greek Café is a world musiccompilation album originally released in 2010. Part of the World Music NetworkRough Guides series, the release covers a wide breadth of the music of Greece on Disc One, from traditional to modern. Disc Two highlights Dimitris Mistakidis. The album was compiled by Marc Dubin, a journalist specializing in Greece for the past three decades.[1] Brad Haynes coordinated the project, Laurence Cedar mastered the work, and Phil Stanton was the producer.[2]
The album received generally positive reviews upon release. Both Chris Nickon of AllMusic and Deanne Sole of PopMatters noted the use of the word "café". Nickson described the title as somewhat of a "misnomer" and the compilation instead as "an introduction to Greek music, and a very good one" showing that Greek music is "richly alive".[2] Sole wrote that the compiler "favours forward movement", that "hardness is allowed", and that if it is indeed a "café" soundtrack, it is one "for mobs of 19th-century European aesthetes".[3]
