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Crete. The unique Cretan Diet is a healthy and tasty diet with centuries-old recipes and modern creative versions, which are always cooked, of course, with the same top quality pure products of the blessed Cretan earth. Don’t leave West Crete without trying Chaniotiko bour?ki a special zucchini-potato pie or Chochlio? Boumpouristo? one of the most popular dishes of the Cretan diet! In West Crete you can also try Tsigariast? a Cretan goat or lamb, cooked in olive oil or ap?ki which is made from a high quality pork meat. The ability of West Crete cuisine to combine the unique Cretan cheeses with excellent thyme honey, is magic. Visit us at Platanias, Crete 73014, Greece and try Kaltso?nia made of myz?thra cheese or greens and herbs or Marath?pita a pie filled with fresh fennel. However, if youre a vegetarian or just temporarily off meat, dont be shy. Ask the waiter if there are any orphans on the menu. Orfana is the folk term used for the meatless verions of a dish like, for example, stuffed tomatoes or vineleaves made with rice instead of ground beef and, if youre lucky, you can order stuffed zuke flowers a rare treat tucked among the vineleaves.
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Crete. With a food culture to match its status as Greece's biggest island, Cretan cuisine is distinguished and traditional. In West Crete local cheese, famous olive oil and punchy liqueurs are just three of the main ingredients foundation of our offered dishes. Based on simple techniques, its the variety of local produce that distinguishes West Crete dishes: mountain herbs and greens, bulbs, unique cheeses, fresh fish, the famous Cretan oil, and raki a bracing grape brandy. Visit us at Platanias, Crete 73014, Greece and discover one of the most favorite starters - dakos chopped tomato (and Cretan tomatoes will remind you what the fruit should taste like) and xinomyzithra sprinkled with oregano and liberally doused with extra virgin olive oil. Eating in West Crete is really a journey in flavors, special ingredients and combinations that you would never expect to taste. The main feature of West Crete cuisine is imagination, high quality meat, greens, legumes and vegetables, sea food, and of course the blessed Cretan olive oil! Our cuisine: Mediterranean, European, Greek | Our Location: Chania Prefecture, Crete
Crete. The unique Cretan Diet is a healthy and tasty diet with centuries-old recipes and modern creative versions, which are always cooked, of course, with the same top quality pure products of the blessed Cretan earth. Don't leave West Crete without trying Chaniotiko bour?ki a special zucchini-potato pie or Chochlio? Boumpouristo? one of the most popular dishes of the Cretan diet! In West Crete you can also try Tsigariast? a Cretan goat or lamb, cooked in olive oil or ap?ki which is made from a high quality pork meat. The ability of West Crete cuisine to combine the unique Cretan cheeses with excellent thyme honey, is magic. Visit us at Platanias, Crete 73014, Greece and try Kaltso?nia made of myz?thra cheese or greens and herbs or Marath?pita a pie filled with fresh fennel. However, if youre a vegetarian or just temporarily off meat, dont be shy. Ask the waiter if there are any orphans on the menu. Orfana is the folk term used for the meatless verions of a dish like, for example, stuffed tomatoes or vineleaves made with rice instead of ground beef and, if youre lucky, you can order stuffed zuke flowers a rare treat tucked among the vineleaves.
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