Top Crete Food & Drink

Getting to know the real Chania is difficult without a guide to show you behind the tourist sights. This small-group tour delivers: introducing you to its foods, customs, people, and wines in ways only a local can. Stroll around Chania’s lanes, churches, and monuments; meet townsfolk, visit authentic spots, and sample staples such as sesame bread, cheese, and Cretan honey before a wine-tasting. Hotel pickup and drop-off is included.

Visit the family mountain home of a local Cretan for a completely authentic evening of cooking, eating, and cultural exchange. Begin your visit with a walk through the vegetable gardens, where you harvest ingredients to use in your recipes. Learn traditional dishes from your hosts, and hear the stories behind each dish. Enjoy a walk through the mountain paths with views of the Aegean Sea. Sit down to a meal you helped prepare, including local wine and a sweet dessert.

We offer you an evening semiprivate tour to wine tasting and dinner at sunset in selected exlusive spots in town. Based on our experience as travellers around the world, we have realised that we have spent unreasonable amounts of money on food and drinks. On top of that, we have wasted valuable time on choosing wrongly as regards our nightlife. After careful consideration, we organise and offer you a semiprivate evening tour in the old town, starting close to 7.00 pm (after your booking we can change the starting time on your request), which will include wine tasting and dinner at sunset at the Venetian Harbour

Get a hands-on experience of Cretan cooking that goes far beyond simply eating in a Greek restaurant. You’ll be invited into your chef guide’s home to try making some Cretan specialities, including tzatziki, homemade cheese, moussaka, Greek salad, and others. Learn alongside a small group of just 10 fellow food lovers, which makes for an intimate atmosphere and plenty of time to ask questions.

The island of Crete has been an active winemaking region for centuries – men and women have been growing grapes on the island and turning it into wine since the times of ancient Greece. On this easygoing afternoon tour, visit wineries carrying on that tradition today in a small and intimate tour group. Enjoy exclusive behind the scenes walks through these wineries, sample their wines and learn how to taste them like the professionals on the island.

Immerse yourself in Crete’s culture and cuisine on this full-day 4WD safari from Chania. Sample fine Cretan wines at a local vineyard, watch a demonstration of traditional knife making, then peek into an olive mill and learn about the island’s famous extra-virgin olive oil. Finally, indulge in a delicious lunch at a local tavern and taste typical Cretan specialties like seafood, feta cheese and savory pies.

Discover the rich world of Cretan wine on this guided winery tour. Visit several island wineries, sample their whites, reds and other varietals, and learn all about what goes into each glass: the work, the produce, the culture. Rather than navigating the roads of inland Crete in your own rental car, travel from winery to winery in provided group transport.

Learn more about the culture of Crete through this hands-on cooking class in a local home. Try your hand at recipes that have been passed down through generations, and learn the tips and techniques necessary to reproduce these delicious dishes at home. Get a glimpse into ordinary life in Crete, as this cooking class is held in a traditional village near Rethymno.

From the tree to the bottle, you will find out everything about extra virgin olive oil. How are the olives harvested? How is the olive oil produced? What is the difference between First Cold Pressed and Cold Extraction? What should an extra virgin olive oil taste like? Discover our naturally flavoured oils with fruits and herbs from our Estate.

Feast your senses on the best of Cretan cuisine—and get a more intimate glimpse into the culture than you would in a restaurant—during a cooking class in Rethymno. As well learning how to prepare traditional Cretan dishes, you’ll enjoy an olive oil tasting session and a walk through a local village.

We are wine people doing tours, not tour people doing wine. Learn all about olive oil and wine production on this half day small group tour. Tour an olive oil mill and learn the quality levels of olive oil. Next travel to a rustic family owned winery to learn how wine is made. Explore the barrel room and see where sparkling wine is made. Enjoy a guided wine tasting on the outdoor patio. Your guide will demonstrate how to properly taste wine to enhance your wine tasting experience.

Rethymno’s many artisan food producers present the perfect opportunity to explore the fresh, seasonal and often plant-based cuisine of Crete. Although poor quality fare is uncommon in Rethymno, if your time on Crete is limited you’ll want to focus in on the best Cretan food in town. This tour combines Rethymno’s culinary and historic heritage to provide you with an introduction as relaxed and simple as life here.

We have been born and bred in Crete for more than three generations. The Cretan lifestyle & diet runs in our veins. Along with my mother, we would love to share with you all the secrets of traditional Cretan cuisine, cook authentic Cretan recipes and learn cooking techniques that we follow for more than 3 generations. All in all, we want to make you feel like a local Cretan and also as a member of our family. We want to immerse you in Cretan culture & spirit. Smell, taste & feel our tradition, through a unique hands-on cooking experience!

We are wine people doing tours, not tour people doing wine. Enjoy a full day of wine and beer tasting! Chania Wine Tours is owned and Operated by a Certified Sommelier and Local Grape Grower. We are wine people doing tours, not tour people doing wine. 

Olive oil has been a vital part of Crete’s culinary culture for generations, dating back to the times of ancient Greece. With this private tasting experience, discover why this simple oil is so important to the island’s culture and learn to use it in your cooking like the locals do. Enjoy a private tasting of several locally-produced oils and learn how to pair it with all sorts of ingredients from your tasting guide.

Our experience takes place in the village of Pigi, 8 km from the city of Rethymno on the way to Arkadi Monastery. With an area of 10.000 square meters, the venue is one of the largest monumental olive groves in the Mediterranean region. Oliving in Crete experience, offers olive oil tours and tastings in our wonderful olive grove. Our goal is to present the culture and history of olive oil through centuries in Greek heritage. You discover more information about olive oil quality, olive harvest, olive oil production, and olive oil’s health benefits. Introduce the Cretan Diet and find out how extra virgin olive oil became the most important component of a new, healthy lifestyle.

Prepare for the ultimate Cretan foodie experience on this private gastronomy tour. Take the risk out of choosing a good place to eat by having a guide to take you to Heraklion’s most delicious eateries. You’ll save time researching where to eat and learn about Cretan cuisine as you explore and taste your way around town. Highlights include cream pies, Greek donuts, cheese, visiting an old-fashioned herb shop, and trying fresh seafood.

Our brewery is one of the few organised open breweries in Greece. Visitors can take a glimpse on the production area any time, while our restaurant is offering great variety of fresh dishes (vegetarian as well), prepared on an open-air kitchen. Our balcony is surrounded from orange and herbs scents that you only have to sit back and relax in the middle of cretan natural landscape. Check our reviews from other visitors and combine a hike or bike tour to the picturesque surroundings, or on your return from Balos, Elafonisi and Paleochora. All our beers are fresh, which means without conservatives and unpasteurised.

Wine tasting (2 white dry wines, 1 rose semi dry wine, 1 red dry wine). Winery and cellar tour. Duration 1:00 - 1:15 hour.

Have the opportunity to visit the only fresh water natural lake in the island of Crete, where you will relax and have a coffee break in a local taverna. You will admire the beauty of nature by riding a pedalo and for the brave ones by swimming into the lake with the ducks and the turtles. Next is the main destination the winery, where you will have a tour in the courtyard, the botanical garden and then to the production and storage area of the wines, to learn all the secrets of production and bottling. Then you will taste the delicacies of Crete in a light lunch with local wine.

Discover the special character of cretan wines, like Liatiko and Vidiano, in the heart of the vine region of Crete.

Eat to your heart - and stomach’s - content on a 4-hour culinary tour of Chania. Follow your private guide as they lead you to local eateries and shops where you’ll sample 15 different dishes.  Learn about the influence that the Arabs, Ottomans, and more had on Greek food on an intimate walking tour. In between bites, you’ll hear about local food culture and politics.

We have been born and bred in the South Crete (in Messara Plain) for more than three generations. So, the Cretan lifestyle runs in our veins. Along with my grandmother & my mother, we would love to guide you in our way of life and make you feel like a member of our family! We will visit our family's olive groves and greenhouses. We will share with you every detail we know about the extra virgin olive oil and the products we cultivate. And the best part comes to the end... My grandma will show you live how we make cheese and you will have the opportunity to taste warm mizithra (kind of cheese)! Moreover, you will enjoy a traditional picnic, rich in flavors and with the company of the Cretan nectar: our precious raki! Our picnic will takes place under the shadow of a big olive tree located in our family's olives groves. All in all, we want to make you feel like a local Cretan and immerse you in our culture and spirit!

we shop like the locals. Visiting the large weekly farmers market in Herkalion. The stands are numerous and the products endless. The local smells, the people the products. This is the original life of the city away of tourist attractions and tourist traps.