“If you want good raki, drink it but don’t get drunk,

take the ship of the line to Crete to anchor”

Hospitality with food is the moto of Crete.

With tsikoudia at the door and peanuts along with walnuts with pure thyme honey, Chanians are waiting to attract you. The welcome of the traveler continues with kalitsounia stuffed with myzithra or malaka (cheese mash from the first stage of the cheese making process of graviera), dakos with myzithra from pure local ingredients as well as meat cooked with herbs of Cretan nature and the traditional gammopilafo extinguished with plenty of raki. The traveller feels “at home” as he is invited to all the major celebrations. The celebration of the orange, the distillation of Cretan tsikoudia, the pressing of grapes. Immortal rite of tradition with a taste of centuries.