Restaurant in Crete

A modern rakadiko where locals actually eat

Modern Mediterranean in a flower-filled courtyard

Contemporary Greek tasting cooking in a sculpted old-town room

All-day Greek bistro blending Hellenic and Levantine flavours

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

Mansion-style Cretan cuisine a block from Peskesi

Creative Cretan dining in a Venetian courtyard

Grocer-meze-room on the restored square of Archanes

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

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

Fireplace-warm Cretan taverna for a local clientele

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

The locals' seafood ouzeri by the Venetian port

Forgotten Cretan recipes reworked for the modern table

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

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

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

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

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

Chef Saridakis's modern Cretan ode to fish

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

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

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

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

Stone-oven Cretan institution in the centre of Vamos

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

Sunset seafood among the Tabakaria tanneries

Cliffside Cretan plates beneath the Fortezza

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

The Splantzia seafood mezedopoleio locals queue for

Cretan cooking around a 16th-century well

Creative Cretan inside a 15th-century monastery

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