Fast food and home catering Iles grecques

On the main square, this delicatessen offers a pretty terrace where you can sample refined, light Cretan specialties, such as vine leaves with yoghurt and fresh mint (made with bulgur, not rice). Various local and regional products are also on sale, including Cretan wine. The idea is to cook creatively with ingredients from neighboring farms, often organic: recipes are kindly provided on request. If you feel like it, you can even take a cooking class.

An associative place, a sort of cooperative, offers a few tables inside and on the terrace. You can drink a very good coffee and enjoy some good, classic dishes. The menu is not very big but it will be enough to calm the small cravings after visiting the fortress of Réthymnon, just a few meters higher. In addition to being in a nice street and offering a pleasant and quiet setting, we like even more the idea that we are running a humane place and engaged in social struggles. Smiling and available staff.

A small, simple but pleasant restaurant where tortillas and salads are prepared before the customer's eyes. Opened in 2019, Umami is a popular address for vegans, vegetarians and anyone who likes fast food but good quality. All dishes are prepared with organic raw materials from certified Cretan producers. The menu varies according to the season. The eggplant lasagne, the mushroom tortilla, the salad with coconut bacon are real delights. To take away or to eat on the spot.

Don't necessarily rely on the slightly classic appearance of this establishment from the street, as there is a beautiful terrace at the back, with a view of the sea during the day. Here you can enjoy a hearty breakfast before going to the beach, which is just behind. Also on the menu is a range of snacks and small pleasant dishes for a short lunch break. The desserts are just as good. A good address, practical at any time of the day. Free wireless internet and 4 large TV screens to watch the games.

At this address, the delicious and traditional puff pastries filled with fromage frais, sprinkled or not with sugar are a reference. Since 1924, Iordanis has been revamped. No more formica tables, the room is now ultramodern and very comfortable with its bay window overlooking the street. The recipe for the classic bougatsa is always the same, mixing the crispness of the dough and the melting of the cheese, the salty and the sweet. Unless you prefer the cream version. Their reputation has been established for two or three generations!

Large sun terrace and small shaded terrace with a view worthy of a postcard. The location is ideal for exploring Greek pastries (don't miss the apple pie, local version of the apple pie). Sandwiches and small dishes.

Small hunger/budget, rendez-vous for a gyros. The room is very clean, the decor is modern. The restaurant has a large terrace open on the street, filled with tables and colorful chairs. Room service and sale to take.

Not necessarily refined, that's why you're advised to go for a quick snack, share mezzedes for example, or take a gyros. It is especially the setting that is very pleasant, even if in a pedestrian street. The shady terrace allows you to enjoy a pleasant break. Service and proper atmosphere. A little tourist machine but the courtyard and tables on the street offer a profitable framework.

On a terrace shaded by a tamarind overlooking the sunrise and with sea view. Ideal for breakfast or snack. Also sells olive oil from Gavdos.

Translate the name of the restaurant as "cooking with love". In this tiny place of only a few tables, we choose our dishes in a showcase before they are brought to the table. Sofia, the owner, welcomes us in her restaurant as if we were at home. Traditional family cooking, copious and really delicious. If the place is a bit difficult to find, it is well worth the detour. Don't give up and make the small effort to find it.

Located at the same address for more than 50 years, just a few steps from the city's central market, Oasis is the street food spot in Hania. A must-visit establishment, it still keeps the secret of the seasoning and marinade that makes the meats so juicy and tasty. Wrapped in a grilled pitta or in the form of a sandwich (the bread used, the other key to success!), the gyros are accompanied by a yoghurt sauce, finely chopped tomatoes, onion, all sprinkled with sweet paprika... A must-taste!

This small traditional grocery store offers very good products of the best quality you can enjoy on the few tables made available to the shop. Salty bouts are also offered every day. To watering home lemonade or ouzo, depending on time and envy.

This snack bar is obviously an invitation to a snack, such as a pita or a club sandwich. However, we particularly appreciate its free deckchairs on the beach and its great tranquility. On this relatively unused part of the waterfront, swimming while you are being prepared a coffee shake or a fresh soda is a wonderful luxury at a very low price (2 € the coffee with its small bottle of water!).

This bistro has just brought to the city of Chalcis a great touch of freshness and good taste. Fresh salads, paninis, snacks to eat on site or to take away. An excellent choice for a coffee break or a refreshing fruit juice.

Completely renovated since April 2019 and with a new management, this establishment is a very good place to have a coffee, a snack or a small meal. The pastries and pastries are remarkable.

On the small port of Agia Marina, Ta Kroupia has been an institution since the 1990s: you will eat the best souvlaki in Leros. Be careful, here there is an almost infinite choice, between vegan or vegetarian options and necessarily carnivorous options, pita bread made from corn, whole wheat, or the multi-cereal version... There will be enough to satisfy all desires and types of diets. You also come here to have a drink or a coffee during the day or in the evening and watch the world go by quietly on the small port.

Opposite the Michailis tavern, this is the gathering point for Livadia's residents, who come to enjoy a good gyros or souvlaki grilled to perfection. In the evening, all generations gather here, and we recommend a visit too, as you'll be able to sample some of the island's best kebabs and kebabs in a very local, family-friendly atmosphere. The tables set up on the corner of one of Livadia's main streets are perfect for watching the world go by in the evening, when the season is in full swing.

If it were only necessary to remember one souvlaki address in Rhodes, it would be this one, a few meters from Akti Miaouli beach! Certainly, the shop doesn't really look like anything: a boui-boui a little cracks at most. As for the location, in front of a gas station, it doesn't really make you dream. However, it would be wrong to stop at appearances because it is the best pita gyros and one of the best souvlaki in the city. All the ingredients are undeniably fresh, whether it's the meat itself, the bread, or even the tzatziki!

Stelios installs his little colourful caravan every year on Eristos beach. A small Zen paradise, we settle around the hammock tree and spend the day reading and swimming, between two strikes, a good omelette for breakfast and simple but successful snacks (including some very good hamburgers). In the evening, the place comes alive with all the beach campers who come for a drink: beers and cocktails are shared, often around a moment of music with their feet in the sand and Stelios takes care of everyone.