Venues similar to Historical Museum of Crete

13th-century Venetian basilica turned the city's municipal art gallery

Crete's seafaring history inside the Venetian Firkas Fortress

The world's foremost collection of Minoan art

All-day bagel and coffee counter from the team behind Five

Coffee cut into the cliffs of the tanneries

Waterfront coffee-to-cocktails in bohemian Tabakaria

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

The locals' all-day coffee house anchoring the Koum Kapi promenade

Serious specialty coffee on the Koum Kapi waterfront since 2012

The locals' seafood ouzeri by the Venetian port

Chef Saridakis's modern Cretan ode to fish

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

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

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