Alana Restaurant Restaurant Comparar Courtyard Modern Garden Alana Rethymno Old Town $$$ Modern Mediterranean in a flower-filled courtyard
Apiri Greek Eatery Restaurant Restaurant Comparar All Day Levantine Accents Bistro Apiri Greek Eatery City Centre $$ All-day Greek bistro blending Hellenic and Levantine flavours
Arismari Restaurant Restaurant Comparar Clay Pot Coals Plane Tree Square Own Butcher Arismari Gavalochori (Apokoronas) $$ Clay-pot-over-coals taverna under the plane tree in Gavalochori
Avli Restaurant Restaurant Comparar Courtyard Fine Dining Wine Cellar Avli Rethymno Old Town $$$$ Creative Cretan dining in a Venetian courtyard
Dounias (Ntounias) Restaurant Restaurant Comparar Open Fire Only Own Farm Clay Pot Dounias (Ntounias) Drakona (Keramia) $$ Wood-fire farm taverna cooking only over fire from its own land
Glossitses Restaurant Restaurant Comparar Market Driven Intimate Chef Owned Glossitses Kastelli / Old Harbour edge $$ Tiny market-driven kitchen, the chef's daily haul is the menu
Ippokampos Restaurant Restaurant Comparar Seafood Ouzeri Local institution Ippokampos Venetian Harbour & Walls (Heraklion) $$ The locals' seafood ouzeri by the Venetian port
Maiami Restaurant Restaurant Comparar Art Filled Winemaker Owned Farm To Table Maiami Koum Kapi (Chania) $$$ Art-deco brasserie and ceramic studio with its own winery on the Koum Kapi seafront
Parasia Restaurant Restaurant Comparar Antikristo Open Fire Stone Farmhouse Parasia Tsikoliana / Vamos (Apokoronas) $$ Antikristo over open fire in a 200-year-old stone building near Vamos
Periplous Seaside Restaurant Restaurant Comparar Chef Driven Seafront Design Led Periplous Seaside Tabakaria & Halepa (Chania) $$$ Chef Saridakis's modern Cretan ode to fish
Steria (Sterja) Restaurant Restaurant Comparar Fire Cooking Zero Waste Small Plates Steria (Sterja) Splantzia $$$ Fire, Cretan produce and a zero-waste kitchen on Splantzia square
Sterna of Bloumosifis Restaurant Restaurant Comparar Stone Oven Village Institution Olive Oil Cooking Sterna of Bloumosifis Vamos (Apokoronas) $$ Stone-oven Cretan institution in the centre of Vamos
Thalassografia Restaurant Restaurant Comparar Clifftop Sea View Sunset Thalassografia Rethymno Old Town $$ Cliffside Cretan plates beneath the Fortezza
The Walls Restaurant Restaurant Comparar Gastrobistro Creative Cuisine Neoclassical The Walls City Centre / Walls $$$ Chef Maniadakis's gastrobistro by the Venetian fortifications
Tholos Restaurant Restaurant Comparar Ruins Open Air Atmospheric Tholos Topanas / Kastelli $$ Cretan cooking inside Venetian-Ottoman ruins, open to the sky
Veneto Restaurant Restaurant Restaurant Comparar Historic Building Wine Cellar Courtyard Veneto Restaurant Rethymno Old Town $$$ Creative Cretan inside a 15th-century monastery