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Creative Cretan inside a 15th-century monastery

Cretan cooking around a 16th-century well

Cretan cooking under a canopy of lemon trees

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

Modern Mediterranean in a flower-filled courtyard

Greek-Levantine cooking down a Splantzia alley with a steam-bath well

Forgotten Cretan recipes reworked for the modern table

Sunset seafood among the Tabakaria tanneries

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

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

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

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

A modern rakadiko where locals actually eat

Cliffside Cretan plates beneath the Fortezza

Cretan-Ottoman cooking in a 600-year-old hammam off Splantzia

The Splantzia seafood mezedopoleio locals queue for

Contemporary Greek tasting cooking in a sculpted old-town room

Mansion-style Cretan cuisine a block from Peskesi

Gourmet-awarded Cretan home cooking in a century-old house

Cretan cooking on hot bricks in a 1900 old-town house