Avli Restaurant
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Courtyard Fine Dining Wine Cellar
Avli
$$$$
Creative Cretan dining in a Venetian courtyard
Venetian-Ottoman, walkable, lively
Rethymno Old Town
Crete's best-preserved Venetian-Ottoman old town, a walkable warren of ouzeris, bakeries and ambitious modern Cretan kitchens between fortress and harbour.
Rethymno keeps the best-preserved Venetian-Ottoman old town on Crete, a dense warren of lanes between the Fortezza and the little Venetian harbour, with minarets, the Rimondi fountain and overhanging wooden balconies still in place. It is compact and walkable, and the food runs the full range, touristy harbour tavernas, but also genuinely good ouzeris, bakeries, ice-cream and a handful of ambitious modern Cretan kitchens tucked into the back streets. The university crowd keeps it livelier and less seasonal than you would expect, with proper coffee and late bars. Of the three Cretan old towns, this is the one to get lost in and eat your way through slowly.
Highlights
Fortezza and little Venetian harbour Rimondi fountain and minarets Ouzeris and back-street modern Cretan kitchens Bakeries, ice-cream and proper coffee University crowd and late bars
16 Lokale
4 Kategorien
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Historic Building Wine Cellar Courtyard
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$$$
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Garden Lemon Trees Wine
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$$$
Cretan cooking under a canopy of lemon trees
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Old Town Core Stone And Greenery Wine
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Stone-and-greenery room in the old-town lanes
1600 Raki Ba Raki Restaurant
Rakadiko Meze Locals
1600 Raki Ba Raki
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A modern rakadiko where locals actually eat
Thalassografia Restaurant
Clifftop Sea View Sunset
Thalassografia
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Cliffside Cretan plates beneath the Fortezza
To Pigadi Restaurant
Courtyard Historic Building Cretan
To Pigadi
$$$
Cretan cooking around a 16th-century well
Alana Restaurant
Courtyard Modern Garden
Alana
$$$
Modern Mediterranean in a flower-filled courtyard
Hotel
5 Lokale
Avli Lounge Apartments Hotel
Heritage Suites Antiques
Avli Lounge Apartments
$$$$
Ten antique-filled suites in Venetian dwellings
Veneto Boutique Hotel Hotel
Heritage Old Town Core Antiques
Veneto Boutique Hotel
$$$
Suites in a Venetian-Ottoman old-town mansion
Casa Vitae Hotel
Design Led Heritage Courtyard
Casa Vitae
$$$
Contemporary suites in a 17th-century town house
Palazzo Vecchio Exclusive Residence Hotel
Heritage Fortezza Edge Historic Building
Palazzo Vecchio Exclusive Residence
$$$
A 15th-century Venetian palace below the Fortezza
Rimondi Boutique Hotel Hotel
Design Led Heritage Courtyard Pool
Rimondi Boutique Hotel
$$$$
Two historic estates in the Venetian quarter
Bar
2 Lokale
Shop
1 Lokal
