Peskesi Restaurant
Farm To Table Restored mansion Chef Driven
Peskesi
$$$
Heraklion's farm-to-table temple of authentic Cretan cuisine
Working-city, gritty, reviving
Old Town / Lakkos (Heraklion)
Heraklion's real city centre around the Morosini fountain, with the once-marginal Lakkos quarter revived by murals, bars and a creative crowd.
The heart of old Heraklion gathers around the Morosini lion fountain and the lanes radiating off it, a working city centre rather than a preserved postcard. Around the historic core, the Lakkos district — long the city's poor and marginal quarter — has been quietly reclaimed by murals, small bars and a younger, creative crowd. The mix is the point: covered market stalls, ouzeris and koutoukia, third-wave coffee and street art within a few minutes' walk. It reads as a real, slightly rough-edged Greek city rediscovering its centre rather than a tidied-up tourist set.
Highlights
Morosini lion fountain Lakkos murals and street art Covered market and ouzeris Koutoukia and small bars Younger, creative crowd
8 places
3 Categories
Restaurant
6 places
Apiri Restaurant
Modern Greek Design Led Chef Driven
Apiri
$$$
Contemporary Greek tasting cooking in a sculpted old-town room
Athali Restaurant
Family Run Open Flame Year Round
Athali
$$
Mansion-style Cretan cuisine a block from Peskesi
Merastri Restaurant
Locals' favourite Homely Award Winning
Merastri
$$
Gourmet-awarded Cretan home cooking in a century-old house
Parasties Restaurant
Historic building Hot Brick cooking Old School
Parasties
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Cretan cooking on hot bricks in a 1900 old-town house
Erganos Restaurant
Fireplace Locals' clientele Rustic
Erganos
$$
Fireplace-warm Cretan taverna for a local clientele
Cafe
1 place
Bar
1 place
