Plekken in Crete

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

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

Rhône varieties on Cretan soil, with a serious tasting room

Greek-wine bar with a romantic terrace near Eleftherias Square

Coffee cut into the cliffs of the tanneries

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

Parisian patisserie in a 1930s Chania foundry

Organic family estate of indigenous reds at Siva

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

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

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

Inventive cocktails in the courtyard of a restored 1900s house on Korai