2024

QUEEN BOUTIQUE DESSERTS

Bread cakes chocolates ice cream

This new pastry café is a sweet treat, with its pastel velvet armchairs and timeless atmosphere. It is one of the few pastry shops where the pastries are of such a high quality. Everything is prepared with care and finesse. You can taste delicious desserts that are not lacking in imagination. With a very low price per piece, the pastry chef invites us to taste a wide range of his "miniature" cakes before choosing the ones we prefer! It is perfect for a snack break during the day. An address that is worth a visit.

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2024

TOULIS

Bakery

Nikos Toulis arrived from Epirus in Crete in 1865 and worked as a baker. In 1923, the bakery moved to Smyrnis Street, the present Tsikirtzi Street, and it is at this address that it is still located today. Vassilis Toulis is currently perpetuating the long family tradition of ensuring the quality of the flour and oil, the only fat used to make the different kinds of bread, sweet or savoury petits fours, fruit tarts. Everything is baked in the wood-fired oven. An address that is worth a visit.

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2024

KIRKOR

Bakery

Established in 1922 by G. Hosefpian, an Armenian immigrant who met the same fate as the Greeks who came from Asia Minor after the Great Catastrophe, this small shop is part of the history of the city. Hosefpian, alias Kirkor, brought in his luggage the recipe for bougatsa, a puff pastry filled with fresh milk cream, eggs and semolina, and since then, from father to son, Herakleion has enjoyed this delicacy. Sweet or savoury, Kirkor's bougatsa is a delight. Mr. Vassilis will be pleased to prepare one with spinach or ham.

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