Cretan specialties

Overview of Cretan specialties

The Cretan cuisine is worldwide famous because it’s both healthy and tasty. Among the many local dishes you can taste everywhere in the island, try kalitsounia (sweet mini cheese pies), chochlii boubouristi (fried snails), eggs with staka (sheep butter), dacos (hard bread with tomato, mizithra cheese and oil), Cretan wedding rice (rice cooked in meat broth), etc. Accompany your meal with –or sip afterwards- a shot of raki, the traditional alcohol drink of Crete.