Avli Restaurant
Courtyard Fine Dining Wine Cellar
Venetian-Ottoman, walkable, lively
Rethymno Old Town
Crete's best-preserved Venetian-Ottoman old town, a walkable warren of ouzeris, bakeries and ambitious modern Cretan kitchens between fortress and harbour.
Rethymno keeps the best-preserved Venetian-Ottoman old town on Crete, a dense warren of lanes between the Fortezza and the little Venetian harbour, with minarets, the Rimondi fountain and overhanging wooden balconies still in place. It is compact and walkable, and the food runs the full range, touristy harbour tavernas, but also genuinely good ouzeris, bakeries, ice-cream and a handful of ambitious modern Cretan kitchens tucked into the back streets. The university crowd keeps it livelier and less seasonal than you would expect, with proper coffee and late bars. Of the three Cretan old towns, this is the one to get lost in and eat your way through slowly.
Highlights
Fortezza and little Venetian harbour Rimondi fountain and minarets Ouzeris and back-street modern Cretan kitchens Bakeries, ice-cream and proper coffee University crowd and late bars
16 places
4 Categories
Restaurant
8 places
Veneto Restaurant Restaurant
Historic Building Wine Cellar Courtyard
Lemonokipos Restaurant
Garden Lemon Trees Wine
Castelo Restaurant
Old Town Core Stone And Greenery Wine
1600 Raki Ba Raki Restaurant
Rakadiko Meze Locals
Thalassografia Restaurant
Clifftop Sea View Sunset
To Pigadi Restaurant
Courtyard Historic Building Cretan
Alana Restaurant
Courtyard Modern Garden
Hotel
5 places
Avli Lounge Apartments Hotel
Heritage Suites Antiques
Veneto Boutique Hotel Hotel
Heritage Old Town Core Antiques
Casa Vitae Hotel
Design Led Heritage Courtyard
Palazzo Vecchio Exclusive Residence Hotel
Heritage Fortezza Edge Historic Building
A 15th-century Venetian palace below the Fortezza
Rimondi Boutique Hotel Hotel
Design Led Heritage Courtyard Pool
Bar
2 places
Ali Vafi's Garden Bar
Secret Garden Cocktails Wine
Hunky Funky Bar
Craft Cocktails Historic Building Intimate
Shop
1 place
Artifacts by Omodamos Shop
Craft Ceramics Studio
