Alana Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Courtyard Modern Garden Alana Rethymno Old Town $$$ Modern Mediterranean in a flower-filled courtyard
Apiri Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Modern Greek Design Led Chef Driven Apiri Old Town $$$ Contemporary Greek tasting cooking in a sculpted old-town room
Athali Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Family Run Open Flame Year Round Athali Old Town $$ Mansion-style Cretan cuisine a block from Peskesi
Castelo Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Old Town Core Stone And Greenery Wine Castelo Rethymno Old Town $$$ Stone-and-greenery room in the old-town lanes
Erganos Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Fireplace Locals' clientele Rustic Erganos Old Town $$ Fireplace-warm Cretan taverna for a local clientele
Glossitses Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Market Driven Intimate Chef Owned Glossitses Kastelli / Old Harbour edge $$ Tiny market-driven kitchen, the chef's daily haul is the menu
Kouzina E.P.E. Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Modern Cretan Intimate Wine Led Kouzina E.P.E. Splantzia $$ Forgotten Cretan recipes reworked for the modern table
Maiami Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Art Filled Winemaker Owned Farm To Table Maiami Koum Kapi (Chania) $$$ Art-deco brasserie and ceramic studio with its own winery on the Koum Kapi seafront
Merastri Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Locals' favourite Homely Award Winning Merastri Old Town $$ Gourmet-awarded Cretan home cooking in a century-old house
Parasties Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Historic building Hot Brick cooking Old School Parasties Old Town $$ Cretan cooking on hot bricks in a 1900 old-town house
Peskesi Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Farm To Table Restored mansion Chef Driven Peskesi Old Town $$$ Heraklion's farm-to-table temple of authentic Cretan cuisine
Steria (Sterja) Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Fire Cooking Zero Waste Small Plates Steria (Sterja) Splantzia $$$ Fire, Cretan produce and a zero-waste kitchen on Splantzia square
Tamam Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Historic hammam Candlelit Vaulted stone Tamam Splantzia $$ Cretan-Ottoman cooking in a 600-year-old hammam off Splantzia
Thalassino Ageri Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Seaside Industrial heritage Sunset Thalassino Ageri Tabakaria $$$ Sunset seafood among the Tabakaria tanneries
The Walls Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Gastrobistro Creative Cuisine Neoclassical The Walls City Centre / Walls $$$ Chef Maniadakis's gastrobistro by the Venetian fortifications
The Well of the Turk Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Hidden alley Courtyard Spice Led The Well of the Turk Splantzia $$ Greek-Levantine cooking down a Splantzia alley with a steam-bath well
Tholos Restaurant Restaurant Confronta Ruins Open Air Atmospheric Tholos Topanas / Kastelli $$ Cretan cooking inside Venetian-Ottoman ruins, open to the sky