The best restaurants Sitia

Among the choice of restaurants on Sitia's waterfront is Tzivaeri, a family-run business, from ingredients to service. Most of the vegetables, meats and fish that grace your plate are produced by members of the Psarakis family. The bread is organic, as is the olive oil and wine. Fresh fish every day. We recommend the mixed fish platter for just €23 for 2. On Fridays and Sundays, spit-roasted meats are served in large numbers to the locals who prefer this address.

This establishment is a rakadiko, a place where you drink raki that is accompanied by mezzedes (food) and other small dishes to be shared to absorb the alcohol flowing. But beware, here the food has nothing to envy the drink. You will eat some of the port's best dishes: octopus with fava and caramelised onions, homemade anchovies, mussels and shellfish steamed in white wine, beetroot salad with walnuts and fromage frais, among others. It is traditional, imaginatively prepared and very tasty.

Close to the port, in this tavern whose owner is a fisherman, you can have fresh fish but also other traditional dishes at any time. If you prefer simmered dishes, opt for giouvetsi, (meat cooked slowly in the oven with Greek pasta that looks like rice) or the delicious stuffed vine leaves . White wine, from the monastery of Toplou and served chilled, is recommended. Every evening, the speciality offered is the mechoui: melting! Friendly and efficient service. Very good value for money.

Located at the beginning of the promenade of Sitia, this restaurant has a beautiful view of the marina and the old town. Open all year round, this traditional restaurant, or tavern, offers Greek and other dishes. They are hearty and cheap. A starter and a salad are enough to cut your hunger. Try the Cretan salad for a change from the Greek, it is delicious, or the fried mushrooms, courgette or meatballs, baked aubergines... among others.

Greek-Cretan cuisine restaurant and pizzeria on the port located between Hotel Elysée and Hotel Flisvos near the water to admire the small fishing boats. Pleasant, clean and shaded terrace overlooking a small flowerbed and the small port. Nevertheless, the cuisine here is traditional: rabbit has been a speciality of the owner for twenty years. There are 5 to 6 dishes of the day in summer, including some fish dishes, snails... Fresh home-made tiramisu is systematically offered all year round. Warm welcome.

The address, always lively, is frequented by many Cretans of all ages. With its terrace on the promenade of Sitia, Me-raki is the nice address to taste freshly cooked Greek mezzedes (dishes), as well as delicious home-made raki: seafood or shrimp and saffron risotto, shrimp pasta with tomato sauce, delicious grills, various salads, zucchini fritters, fried salted cheese(saganaki), tzatziki, grilled meat platter... The decoration in blue and white is simple but original.