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Crete Gourmet Trail of Rethymnon Including Food and Beverage Tastings
Recommended for your Crete trip
Free Cancellation
up to 24 hours in advance
4 hours (Approx.)
Mobile ticket
Offered in: English
Good for avoiding crowds
Keeping you safe during COVID-19
What you can expect during your visit
Face masks provided for travelers
Hand sanitizer available to travelers and staff
Social distancing enforced throughout experience
Guides required to regularly wash hands
Regular temperature checks for staff
Overview
Get off the beaten path on this 4-hour gourmet food tour in the Cretan city Rethymnon. Savor culinary delights like ‘kalitsounia’ (pastry pie), organic baklava with ice cream, and locally-made beer. Cap it all off with a one-of-a-kind food and wine tasting inside a 700-year-old wine cellar. All food and beverage tastings are included, and vegetarian options are available on request.
- Explore the gourmet offerings of Rethymnon on a food and beverage walking tour
- Sample Greek wine paired with snacks in a 700-year-old wine cellar
- Try a sample of ‘kalitsounia,’ a Crete-style savory pastry, cooked at a 100-year-old bakery
- Snack on baklava topped with sheep's milk ice cream sourced from a local farm
- Sip on locally-made beer and specialty 'raki' cocktails at a local art gallery
- Great introduction to Crete's artisanal, locally-sourced, food scene
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Meet your guide in the evening at Rethymnon’s Square of the Four Martyrs. You’ll start with food excursion with a ‘jolt,’ sipping on some traditional Greek-style coffee. This caffeine-infused brew is made using the unexpected method of placing the cups inside a bowl of hot sand.
Continue on a walk through the charming streets of this historic city, stopping at a 100-year-old local bakery for your next tasting. Enjoy a bite of ‘kalitsounia,’ a famous Crete-style pastry pie stuffed with cheese, spinach, fennel, and sampling of wild local greens. The historic venue will make your snack that much tastier.
Once you’ve worked up an appetite, proceed to one of Rethymnon’s oldest buildings, a structure that was originally constructed by the Venetians, and down inside the building’s 700-year-old wine cellar. You’ll then enjoy a one-of-a-kind food and wine tasting workshop, learning about Greek wines as you taste samples of red, white, rosé, and dessert wines paired with local food.
Follow your food and wine tasting by enjoying a palate cleanser at a special Rethymnon sweet shop that focuses on organic, locally-sourced treats. You’ll sample some baklava and sheep’s milk ice cream, made with products from a nearby farm.
Now that the food portion of the trip is done, it’s time for a drink. Head to one of the city’s top art venues, where you’ll meet the resident creator and enjoy a tasting of locally-made beer and meze. If cocktails are more your style, not to worry: your last sample of the evening is a libation made with ‘raki,’ the local liquor. Your trip finishes in the Venetian Harbor of Rethymnon.
Continue on a walk through the charming streets of this historic city, stopping at a 100-year-old local bakery for your next tasting. Enjoy a bite of ‘kalitsounia,’ a famous Crete-style pastry pie stuffed with cheese, spinach, fennel, and sampling of wild local greens. The historic venue will make your snack that much tastier.
Once you’ve worked up an appetite, proceed to one of Rethymnon’s oldest buildings, a structure that was originally constructed by the Venetians, and down inside the building’s 700-year-old wine cellar. You’ll then enjoy a one-of-a-kind food and wine tasting workshop, learning about Greek wines as you taste samples of red, white, rosé, and dessert wines paired with local food.
Follow your food and wine tasting by enjoying a palate cleanser at a special Rethymnon sweet shop that focuses on organic, locally-sourced treats. You’ll sample some baklava and sheep’s milk ice cream, made with products from a nearby farm.
Now that the food portion of the trip is done, it’s time for a drink. Head to one of the city’s top art venues, where you’ll meet the resident creator and enjoy a tasting of locally-made beer and meze. If cocktails are more your style, not to worry: your last sample of the evening is a libation made with ‘raki,’ the local liquor. Your trip finishes in the Venetian Harbor of Rethymnon.
Itinerary
Sweetshop: How about some baklava with ice cream made from sheep’s milk from a local farm? Who can resist?
We’re going to sample some locally brewed beer and meze. But instead of heading to a tavern, we’re going to snack in a local art venue where you can chat with the artist and find out how Crete never fails to inspire artistic hearts.
You’ll try a signature cocktail made just for you, starring our liquid royalty, raki. Also known as tsikoudia, raki is an alcoholic beverage — a fragrant, grape-based pomace brandy of Crete.
Duration: 2 hours
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