Places in Crete

Mansion-style Cretan cuisine a block from Peskesi

In-house coffee roaster and microbrewery in the Korai grid

Serious specialty coffee on the Koum Kapi waterfront since 2012

All-day cafe and wine bar on the edge of Splantzia square

Mezze and raki on the painted-alley square of Lakkos

All-day room for specialty coffee, light Mediterranean plates and wine

Art-and-music bar-restaurant in a 1950s ice factory

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

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

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

The Splantzia seafood mezedopoleio locals queue for