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Ordering Seafood in Crete: Prices, Freshness and Choices
How to order seafood in a Cretan taverna: fish priced per kilo, checking fresh or frozen, which fish are in season, and dishes worth asking for.
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Vegetarian Food in Crete: Dishes to Order and What to Ask
Eating vegetarian in Crete: dakos, wild greens, gemista, boureki, fava and pies, plus Lent 'nistisima' dishes for vegans and what to ask the kitchen.
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A Cretan Breakfast: Yoghurt, Bougatsa, Cheese and Eggs
How Cretans eat breakfast: yoghurt with thyme honey, bougatsa, cheese pies, eggs with staka, rusks and fruit, plus where to find each.
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Olive Oil Tasting in Crete: How to Taste and Choose
How to taste Cretan olive oil: warm it, smell, sip and notice fruit, bitterness and pepper, plus PDO regions, Koroneiki olives and booking a tasting.
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Cretan Cheeses: Graviera, Myzithra, Pichtogalo and More
A guide to Cretan cheeses: graviera, xinomyzithra and pichtogalo Chanion (all PDO), plus myzithra, anthotyros, staka and how to taste them.
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Planning a Village Taverna Lunch in Crete
How to plan a Cretan village taverna lunch: when locals eat, calling ahead, ordering dishes of the day and slow-cooked meat, paying and the drive back.
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Chania or Heraklion for Food: What Each City Does Best
Chania or Heraklion for food? Chania has harbour and Nea Chora seafood and bougatsa; Heraklion has farm-to-table Cretan kitchens and wine country nearby.
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A Cretan bakery guide: pies, rusks and what to ask
What to buy in a Cretan bakery: barley rusks for dakos, kalitsounia cheese pies, bougatsa, Sfakian pies with honey and festive xerotigana.
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Eating in Crete With Children: Easier Taverna Meals
How to make taverna meals easier with children in Crete: eat earlier, share plates, dishes kids usually like, asking for small portions and outdoor tables.
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Seasonal Cretan Cooking: What to Order Each Season
What to order in Crete by season: wild greens and snails in winter and spring, artichokes and lamb at Easter, summer vegetables, autumn chestnuts and raki.
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Where to Eat in Heraklion: Peskesi, Parasties, Merastri
Three Heraklion restaurants for serious Cretan food: Peskesi with its own farm, Parasties cooking over fire, and Merastri's wood-oven lamb.
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Agios Nikolaos restaurants: Piato, Gioma Meze and To Potiraki
Three ways to eat in Agios Nikolaos: Piato's creative Greek cooking over the lake, Gioma Meze for fish and wine, and To Potiraki for meze and raki.
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Paleochora restaurants: seafood, vegetarian cooking and beachside meals
Three ways to eat in Paleochora: harbour seafood at Caravella, vegetarian cooking at Third Eye since 1990, and beachside meals at Zephyros.
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Apokoronas Food Villages: Douliana, Vamos, Embrosneros
Eat in the Apokoronas villages east of Chania: Heliostasi in Douliana, Chasomeri in Vamos and antikristo lamb at Kourgialis in Embrosneros.
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Heraklion wine country: Lyrarakis, Douloufakis and Paterianakis
Three Heraklion wineries to visit: Lyrarakis in Alagni for rare grapes, Douloufakis in Dafnes for Vidiano and Liatiko, and organic Paterianakis in Melesses.
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Chania Food Walk: Old Town, Harbour and Nea Chora
A self-guided Chania food walk: bougatsa for breakfast, the old town and harbour for lunch at Tamam or Salis, and a seafood dinner in Nea Chora.
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Where to Eat in Rethymno: Avli, Raki BaRaki and Alana
Three Rethymno old-town choices: Avli in a 16th-century Venetian villa, its sister meze bar Raki BaRaki, and Alana's flower-filled courtyard.
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Cretan Food: 15 Dishes to Try in Crete
Dakos, kalitsounia, boureki and raki: what to order at a Cretan taverna.
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Celebrating New Year with Vasilopita: A Time-Honored Greek Tradition & Recipe
Introduction : As the New Year approaches, many Greek families worldwide prepare to uphold a cherished tradition - baking…
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A Taste of Greece: Traditional Tzatziki Recipe
Hello, food enthusiasts! Today, we bring a slice of Greek culinary heaven to your kitchen with our traditional tzatziki…
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Achilleas Fish Restaurant - Chania Crete
Located in Nea Chora Beach of Chania Town, Achilleas is a family-owned restaurant that offers an authentic taste of Cretan…
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Top 10 Best Taverns and Restaurants in Chania
Finding a place to have lunch or dinner in Chania is easy. Taverns and restaurants are everywhere: in the labyrinths of…
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Tamam Restaurant
Tamam at Zambeliou 49 in Chania old town: Greek cooking with Asia Minor and Middle Eastern touches, in a former Turkish bath, with a long wine list.
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To Maridaki
To Maridaki at Daskalogianni 33 in Chania old town: a small, busy seafood taverna with an open kitchen and a daily menu built on the fish catch.
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Semiramis Restaurant
Semiramis at Skoufon 8 in Chania old town: a lantern-lit courtyard with live Greek music, Cretan and international dishes, open in the warmer months.
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Ela Taverna
Ela taverna at Kondylaki 47, Chania old town: traditional Cretan food and live music in a roofless 17th-century Venetian building. Open in summer only.
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The Well of the Turk
The Well of the Turk, Kalinikou Sarpaki 1–3 in Chania's Splantzia quarter: Greek, Turkish and Middle Eastern small plates on a terrace in the old town.
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Kritamon Coffee Wine Food Chania
Kritamon wine restaurant at Kondylaki 38 in Chania old town: Cretan and Mediterranean dishes in a bougainvillea courtyard, steps from the harbour.
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Dounias Taverna Drakona
Dounias taverna in Drakona, 18 km from Chania: Stelios Trilyrakis cooks everything over wood fire in clay pots, with his own vegetables and animals. Book ahead.
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Peskesi Restaurant
Peskesi at Kapetan Charalampi 6–8 in Heraklion: traditional Cretan cooking with produce from its own farm at Haraso, in a restored mansion in the old town.
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Ippokampos Ouzeri
Ippokampos at Sofokli Venizelou 3 on Heraklion's waterfront: a classic seafood ouzeri near the Venetian harbour for fish, mezedes and ouzo.
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Erganos Restaurant
Erganos at Georgiadou 5, near Kazantzakis park in Heraklion: traditional Cretan dishes in a homely setting, with vegetarian options and outdoor tables.
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Giakoumis Taverna
Giakoumis taverna in a passage off 1866 street in Heraklion: the oldest of a row of market tavernas, known for lamb chops and ready-cooked dishes.
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Kritamon Restaurant Archanes
Kritamon in Archanes, 15 km south of Heraklion: Cretan dishes on a tree-shaded patio off a cobbled lane near the main square, with a homemade dessert to finish.
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Avli Restaurant
Avli restaurant at Xanthoudidou 22 in Rethymno old town: modern Greek and Cretan cooking in a Venetian-era courtyard building. What to expect and how to plan.
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Prima Plora
Prima Plora on Rethymno's western seafront: modern Cretan cooking with largely organic produce, on platforms over the rocks with a view of the Fortezza.
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Kyria Maria Taverna
Kyria Maria in Rethymno old town: a small family taverna near the Rimondi Fountain, serving simple Cretan home cooking. Tips for an old-town meal.
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Cul De Sac Rethymno
Cul De Sac in Rethymno old town: a modern café-bar for breakfast, light meals and cocktails, good for people-watching between sightseeing.
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Zygos Urban Garden and Coffee
Zygos Urban Garden & Coffee, Agios Nikolaos: a garden café-restaurant over Lake Voulismeni for breakfast, brunch, bowls, souvlaki and homemade ice cream.
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Taverna Zygos Istron
Zygos taverna in Kalo Chorio (Istron), near Agios Nikolaos: spit-roasted suckling pig and lamb, Cretan stews, house wine and live Cretan music on Friday nights.