Good Tavernas & restaurants for everyday and celebrations
Tavernas we recommend

Greek and Cretan cuisine is in family with the Turkish and Middle Eastern cuisine and if you are familiar with anyone of them you will quickly find your way around a Greek menu.

How to recognize a good taverna when you see one!
One of the best ways to find the good tavernas is to look for where the locals eat. The Cretans always know where they get good quality cooking and as they eat out a lot, its a good indications of the quality.

Cretan cuisine and specialties

We recommend!
We have eaten at many tavernas and restaurants and would like to share some of them with you. Also many of our clients have found favorite tavernas that they would like to pass on to you. Below are some of the tavernas we and our clients have enjoyed and that we can recommend for their cooking, service, atmosphere and location.

Please note that we do not attempt to cover every taverna in Crete tousends, but these some of the tavernas that we and our clients know and can recommend.

Restaurants

Restaurant Alana - Old Town Rethymnon

Giovanni's restaurant Adele, Rethymnon

Avli Restaurant - Old Town Rethymnon

Thalass Grafies, Rethymnon, harbour area

Pelagos Restaurant, Agios Nikolaos

Tavernas

Taverna Bousakis, Stavromenos, Rethymnon

Taverna tou Zisi, Missiria, Rethymnon

Taverna Sirroco, Adele Rethymnon

Taverna Manos, Nea Hora, Chania

Taverna Semiramis, Old Town Chania