Places in Crete

Modern Mediterranean in a flower-filled courtyard

Cocktails in the secret garden of an Ottoman mansion

Contemporary Greek tasting cooking in a sculpted old-town room

Vineyard estate and tasting hall near Knossos at Skalani

Owner-made jewellery and ceramics in a tiny Topanas atelier

Contemporary suites in a 17th-century town house

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

Renovated city hotel above the Venetian port and Koules

Cretan cooking under a canopy of lemon trees

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

Intimate wine bistro on Theotokopoulou with one of Chania's best lists

A 15th-century Venetian palace below the Fortezza

Chef Saridakis's modern Cretan ode to fish

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

Sommelier-owned Cretan room with a world-class wine cellar

French-trained chef's modern Cretan tasting room in a Venetian manor

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

Sunset seafood among the Tabakaria tanneries

Chef Maniadakis's gastrobistro by the Venetian fortifications

Cretan cooking around a 16th-century well

Suites in a Venetian-Ottoman old-town mansion

Creative Cretan inside a 15th-century monastery