Adresses 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

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

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

Vineyard estate and tasting hall near Knossos at Skalani

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

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

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

Greek-wine bar with a romantic terrace near Eleftherias Square

Coffee cut into the cliffs of the tanneries

A 15th-century Venetian palace below the Fortezza

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

Chef Saridakis's modern Cretan ode to fish

Century-old Smyrna-rooted bougatsa house on Lions Square

Parisian patisserie in a 1930s Chania foundry

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

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

Four ex-tannery shells turned a Design Hotels stay

Chef Maniadakis's gastrobistro by the Venetian fortifications

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

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

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