Best Restaurants in Crete

Cretan-Ottoman cooking in a 600-year-old hammam off Splantzia

Forgotten Cretan recipes reworked for the modern table

Greek-Levantine cooking down a Splantzia alley with a steam-bath well

The Splantzia seafood mezedopoleio locals queue for

Sunset seafood among the Tabakaria tanneries

Heraklion's farm-to-table temple of authentic Cretan cuisine

Contemporary Greek tasting cooking in a sculpted old-town room

Mansion-style Cretan cuisine a block from Peskesi

Gourmet-awarded Cretan home cooking in a century-old house

Cretan cooking on hot bricks in a 1900 old-town house

Fireplace-warm Cretan taverna for a local clientele

Grocer-meze-room on the restored square of Archanes

Intimate wine bistro on Theotokopoulou with one of Chania's best lists

Sommelier-owned Cretan room with a world-class wine cellar

French-trained chef's modern Cretan tasting room in a Venetian manor

Wood-fire farm taverna cooking only over fire from its own land

Stone-oven Cretan institution in the centre of Vamos

Clay-pot-over-coals taverna under the plane tree in Gavalochori

Antikristo over open fire in a 200-year-old stone building near Vamos

Art-deco brasserie and ceramic studio with its own winery on the Koum Kapi seafront

The locals' seafood ouzeri by the Venetian port

Chef Saridakis's modern Cretan ode to fish

Creative Cretan dining in a Venetian courtyard

Creative Cretan inside a 15th-century monastery

Cretan cooking under a canopy of lemon trees

Stone-and-greenery room in the old-town lanes

A modern rakadiko where locals actually eat

Cliffside Cretan plates beneath the Fortezza

Cretan cooking around a 16th-century well

Modern Mediterranean in a flower-filled courtyard

Fire, Cretan produce and a zero-waste kitchen on Splantzia square

Tiny market-driven kitchen, the chef's daily haul is the menu

Cretan cooking inside Venetian-Ottoman ruins, open to the sky

Chef Maniadakis's gastrobistro by the Venetian fortifications

All-day Greek bistro blending Hellenic and Levantine flavours