Mekane in Crete

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

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

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

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

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