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A good way to start any Cretan meal, is dakos, which is barley rusk (a kind of twice-baked bread) sprinkled with olive oil and topped with cheese, chopped tomato, and oregano. More exotic traditional local fare, now offered mostly just to see if the tourists will eat it, includes rabbit and snails. And while you really ought to eat your vegetables—fennel, eggplant, spinach, artichokes, and the wild mountain green known as stamnagathi are favorites—even the restaurants with the most traditional menus may offer excellent meat dishes, most often lamb. As a rule, Cretan wines are not thought to rank with the best from elsewhere in Greece. But try a bottle of anything with the Lyrarakis label, in particular the rosés, and judge for yourself if the times might be changing.
This restaurant in the courtyard garden of a restored Venetian mansion, now a hotel, has a 500-year-old wine cellar housing 460 labels, and is a must-dine...more
The decor of this Iraklio restaurant is as bold as the recent renovation of the hotel that houses it, the urban-boutique–style Lato. The restaurant's...more
Breakfast place in the morning and jazz club late at night, with lunch and dinner served in between, this former ice factory is one of the hippest gathering...more
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