Venues similar to Tholos

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

Mansion-style Cretan cuisine a block from Peskesi

Fireplace-warm Cretan taverna for a local clientele

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

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

Forgotten Cretan recipes reworked for the modern table

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

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

The Splantzia seafood mezedopoleio locals queue for

Sunset seafood among the Tabakaria tanneries

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

Grocer-meze-room on the restored square of Archanes

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

Cretan cooking under a canopy of lemon trees

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