Rachel Zegler Toasts Summer in Mykonos With Zuma and Roka
by Natalie Martin · Greek City TimesRachel Zegler has become the latest star to make Mykonos part of her summer, spending a girls’ getaway on the island that included dinner at two of its most talked about tables, Roka Mykonos and Zuma Mykonos.
The Snow White and Evita actress documented the trip across her Instagram Stories, sharing a string of images from both venues with her millions of followers. At Roka, she called the night “incredible food, brilliant service and just jaw dropping all round.”
Later in the trip, at Zuma, she watched the chefs prepare wasabi tableside and shared a shot of the Aegean at dusk captioned simply, “I mean…this view.”
It is the kind of low-key, friends-only trip that has become familiar for Zegler over the past year, one of the busiest stretches of her career. She spent last summer as the toast of London’s West End, playing Eva Peron in Jamie Lloyd’s stripped-back revival of Evita at the London Palladium, a run that closed to a six and a half minute standing ovation and earned her an Olivier Award. The production is now bound for Broadway in spring 2027, with Zegler reprising the role. In between, she has starred in Disney’s live-action Snow White and is attached to the upcoming father-daughter drama Last Dance opposite Adrien Brody. A Mykonos break with friends, away from cameras beyond her own phone, tracks as a rare moment of downtime.
Zuma Mykonos has spent the past five summers building a reputation as one of the island’s defining destinations, and its season is only reaching its peak. The open-air venue combines a restaurant, lounge, bar, daybeds and an Olympic-sized infinity pool overlooking the sea in a single setting, built around the idea that a day there should unfold slowly, from a poolside afternoon through sunset drinks to dinner beneath the sky.
The food stays true to the contemporary Japanese izakaya style that Zuma founder Rainer Becker established when the original London restaurant opened in 2002, since expanded to cities including Dubai, New York, Rome, Las Vegas and Riyadh, alongside seasonal outposts in destinations such as Ibiza, Capri and Porto Cervo. Dishes come from three separate stations, the main kitchen, the sushi counter and the robata grill, and are served for sharing rather than in set courses. Signature plates include miso-marinated black cod wrapped in hoba leaf, spicy beef tenderloin with sesame and chilli, and barley-miso baby chicken roasted on cedar wood, alongside the sushi, sashimi and skewers that anchor the menu.
Zuma Mykonos, by day into night…
The venue’s Sunday brunch, Baikingu, returns on 5 July and runs weekly through to 30 August, with two seatings, live food stations, a resident DJ and a percussionist. It is one of several fixtures Zuma runs across its global locations, from Dubai to Miami, and typically draws the biggest crowds of the week on the island.
The bigger moment on the calendar this year came on 2 July, when Zuma hosted Friends of the House, a one-night gathering bringing together some of the most decorated names in the international bar world for an evening of cocktails and canapes. Among the guest list was Line, the Athens bar founded on a circular economy model, fermenting its own fruit wines, beers and sourdough on site and folding the waste back into its cocktail menu. Line arrived at the Zuma event fresh off a significant honour, having just been named number one on the inaugural list of Europe’s 50 Best Bars, announced in Amsterdam days earlier, having already placed eighth on the World’s 50 Best Bars list in 2025. It was joined by Moebius Milano, ranked seventh in the world last year, along with Penrose in Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo Confidential, Allegory in Washington DC, De Vie in Paris and FOCO in Barcelona, alongside Zuma’s own bar team.
For Zegler, the trip was one stop on a summer of quiet travel between projects. For Zuma Mykonos, it is another marker in in what is shaping up to be one of its strongest summers yet.
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