Plekken in Crete

Modern Mediterranean in a flower-filled courtyard

Contemporary Greek tasting cooking in a sculpted old-town room

Mansion-style Cretan cuisine a block from Peskesi

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

Fireplace-warm Cretan taverna for a local clientele

Tiny market-driven kitchen, the chef's daily haul is the menu

Forgotten Cretan recipes reworked for the modern table

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

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

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

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

Fire, Cretan produce and a zero-waste kitchen on Splantzia square

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

Sunset seafood among the Tabakaria tanneries

Chef Maniadakis's gastrobistro by the Venetian fortifications

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

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