Lokale in Crete

Modern Mediterranean in a flower-filled courtyard

Cocktails in the secret garden of an Ottoman mansion

All-day Greek bistro blending Hellenic and Levantine flavours

Clay-pot-over-coals taverna under the plane tree in Gavalochori

Contemporary Greek folk-art ceramics workshop

Creative Cretan dining in a Venetian courtyard

Ten antique-filled suites in Venetian dwellings

Grocer-meze-room on the restored square of Archanes

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

Chania's oldest bougatsa shop, fourth-generation, since 1924

Owner-made jewellery and ceramics in a tiny Topanas atelier

Family-run 17th-century Venetian mansion hotel with a pebbled courtyard

Contemporary suites in a 17th-century town house

Award-winning historic hotel above the Venetian harbour

Wood-fire farm taverna cooking only over fire from its own land

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

The world's foremost collection of Minoan art

Seafront museum on the Venetian walls, home to two El Greco paintings

Craft cocktails in a 16th-century stone building

The locals' seafood ouzeri by the Venetian port

Brothers who brought third-wave coffee to Chania, now roasting in-house

Renovated city hotel above the Venetian port and Koules

Estate that rescued Crete's near-extinct grapes, near Alagni

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

Rhône varieties on Cretan soil, with a serious tasting room

Crete's seafaring history inside the Venetian Firkas Fortress

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

Coffee cut into the cliffs of the tanneries

Antikristo over open fire in a 200-year-old stone building near Vamos

Century-old Smyrna-rooted bougatsa house on Lions Square

Two historic estates in the Venetian quarter

Organic family estate of indigenous reds at Siva

Fire, Cretan produce and a zero-waste kitchen on Splantzia square

Stone-oven Cretan institution in the centre of Vamos

Industrial-chic cocktail bar anchoring Korai Square

Cliffside Cretan plates beneath the Fortezza

Prohibition-style speakeasy in the gallery behind Lions Square

Four ex-tannery shells turned a Design Hotels stay

Crete's pioneering third-wave espresso and wine bar with a roof terrace

Suites in a Venetian-Ottoman old-town mansion

Creative Cretan inside a 15th-century monastery

Inventive cocktails in the courtyard of a restored 1900s house on Korai

Greek-wine bar with a romantic terrace near Eleftherias Square

A 15th-century Venetian palace below the Fortezza

Hilltop boutique organic cellar above Kounavoi

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