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

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

Contemporary suites in a 17th-century town house

In-house coffee roaster and microbrewery in the Korai grid

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

Craft cocktails in a 16th-century stone building

The locals' seafood ouzeri by the Venetian port

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

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

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