Greek and Cretan cuisine is in the 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 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 indication of the quality.
Cretan cuisine and specialities
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 favourite 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 thousands, but these some of the tavernas that we and our clients know and can recommend.
Restaurants
- Restaurant Alana – Rethymnon Old Town
- Prima Plora, Rethymnon by the sea
- Avli Restaurant – Old Town Rethymnon
- Melina Restaurant, Rethymnon
Tavernas
- Taverna tou Zisi, Missiria, Rethymnon
- Taverna Manos, Nea Hora, Chania
- Taverna Semiramis, Old Town Chania
- Yorghos Taverna Preveli River and Palm Beach
- Taverna Faros, Agios Nikolaos
- Taverna Camping Elisabeth