Alana Restaurant Restaurant Comparer Courtyard Modern Garden Alana Rethymno Old Town $$$ Modern Mediterranean in a flower-filled courtyard
Apiri Restaurant Restaurant Comparer Modern Greek Design Led Chef Driven Apiri Old Town $$$ Contemporary Greek tasting cooking in a sculpted old-town room
Athali Restaurant Restaurant Comparer Family Run Open Flame Year Round Athali Old Town $$ Mansion-style Cretan cuisine a block from Peskesi
Castelo Restaurant Restaurant Comparer Old Town Core Stone And Greenery Wine Castelo Rethymno Old Town $$$ Stone-and-greenery room in the old-town lanes
Erganos Restaurant Restaurant Comparer Fireplace Locals' clientele Rustic Erganos Old Town $$ Fireplace-warm Cretan taverna for a local clientele
Glossitses Restaurant Restaurant Comparer Market Driven Intimate Chef Owned Glossitses Kastelli / Old Harbour edge $$ Tiny market-driven kitchen, the chef's daily haul is the menu
Kouzina E.P.E. Restaurant Restaurant Comparer Modern Cretan Intimate Wine Led Kouzina E.P.E. Splantzia $$ Forgotten Cretan recipes reworked for the modern table
Maiami Restaurant Restaurant Comparer Art Filled Winemaker Owned Farm To Table Maiami Koum Kapi (Chania) $$$ Art-deco brasserie and ceramic studio with its own winery on the Koum Kapi seafront
Parasties Restaurant Restaurant Comparer Historic building Hot Brick cooking Old School Parasties Old Town $$ Cretan cooking on hot bricks in a 1900 old-town house
Peskesi Restaurant Restaurant Comparer Farm To Table Restored mansion Chef Driven Peskesi Old Town $$$ Heraklion's farm-to-table temple of authentic Cretan cuisine
Steria (Sterja) Restaurant Restaurant Comparer Fire Cooking Zero Waste Small Plates Steria (Sterja) Splantzia $$$ Fire, Cretan produce and a zero-waste kitchen on Splantzia square
The Walls Restaurant Restaurant Comparer Gastrobistro Creative Cuisine Neoclassical The Walls City Centre / Walls $$$ Chef Maniadakis's gastrobistro by the Venetian fortifications
Tholos Restaurant Restaurant Comparer Ruins Open Air Atmospheric Tholos Topanas / Kastelli $$ Cretan cooking inside Venetian-Ottoman ruins, open to the sky