Guidebook for Iraklio
Food Scene
It is a wonderful place to eat, traditionally but very innovative . The food and the service are great, everything is fresh and they have very nice cocktails!
264 locals recommend
Peskesi
6-8 Kapetan CharalampiIt is a wonderful place to eat, traditionally but very innovative . The food and the service are great, everything is fresh and they have very nice cocktails!
Excellent meat and amazing salads! A very enriched wine card, with a beautiful ambiente in the heart of the city center, and the food? its really really really good! Premium cut steaks for them who want something more exclusive.. to a simple but extremely delicious burger!
61 locals recommend
Kouzineri
& EvropisExcellent meat and amazing salads! A very enriched wine card, with a beautiful ambiente in the heart of the city center, and the food? its really really really good! Premium cut steaks for them who want something more exclusive.. to a simple but extremely delicious burger!
A purely traditional small tavern, in a hidden alley with a beautiful yard to sit under a natural pergola with grapes!
it is a family business, many years now, where the father prepares the fresh meat on the barbecue the mother is in the kitchen and the son at the service.
7 locals recommend
Paradosiako
9 VourvachonA purely traditional small tavern, in a hidden alley with a beautiful yard to sit under a natural pergola with grapes!
it is a family business, many years now, where the father prepares the fresh meat on the barbecue the mother is in the kitchen and the son at the service.
Fantastic! a secret spot, a little hidden, but wonderful! It does have tourist, very rarely, and is always full! The food is great and the owner, georgia is such a lovely person! 100% recommendable!
41 locals recommend
Vourvouladikon
50 Monis KardiotissisFantastic! a secret spot, a little hidden, but wonderful! It does have tourist, very rarely, and is always full! The food is great and the owner, georgia is such a lovely person! 100% recommendable!
A very beautiful fish restaurant, in hersonissos, a little outside heraklion, with a magnificent sea view! its ideal to swim there, even if its windy and with waves, at the small gulfs under the restaurant you can swim safe, and then just go up and enjoy your wine and fish!
22 locals recommend
Saradari Restaurant
Αγίου ΓεωργίουA very beautiful fish restaurant, in hersonissos, a little outside heraklion, with a magnificent sea view! its ideal to swim there, even if its windy and with waves, at the small gulfs under the restaurant you can swim safe, and then just go up and enjoy your wine and fish!
A beautiful, family owned small cafe-patisserie-bistrot.
A traditional environment, in a cafe built ca 100 years before! All the cakes and sweets are freshly made from the family. Enjoy a coffee in a small alley where you see everyone pass by and socialize.
Rahati Cafè Patisserie Bistro
A beautiful, family owned small cafe-patisserie-bistrot.
A traditional environment, in a cafe built ca 100 years before! All the cakes and sweets are freshly made from the family. Enjoy a coffee in a small alley where you see everyone pass by and socialize.
Drinks & Nightlife
A beautiful open air cafe-bar-restaurant. Great for breakfast-lunch and dinner... Exclusive food, you don't find a menu like this elsewhere in heraklion, it elegant and very unique at a fair price. The decoration is so nice, the cocktails are fantastique.. its our number one spot to eat good and enjoy our morning/ midday or a night out!
94 locals recommend
Xalavro Open Bar
10 MilatouA beautiful open air cafe-bar-restaurant. Great for breakfast-lunch and dinner... Exclusive food, you don't find a menu like this elsewhere in heraklion, it elegant and very unique at a fair price. The decoration is so nice, the cocktails are fantastique.. its our number one spot to eat good and enjoy our morning/ midday or a night out!
The Bitters Bar
25 Idis A great cozy cocktail bar in the middle of the heraklion center!
its a nice place, where you can eat, and a little after 01:00 they close the doors and the party begins! with greek music and nice drinks
18 locals recommend
Barraki
Gramvousisits a nice place, where you can eat, and a little after 01:00 they close the doors and the party begins! with greek music and nice drinks
Island of Desire
95 Leof. Sofokli Venizelounice open air club just next to the sea!
A nice small cocktail bar with carefully chosen cocktails! All days exert monday-tuesday, stavros will make you a great cocktail!
Swing Thing
13 ArkoleonA nice small cocktail bar with carefully chosen cocktails! All days exert monday-tuesday, stavros will make you a great cocktail!
Sightseeing
Knossos
A must see in herakklion!
a very beautiful traditional village, with small alleys and stone-houses!
If you visit it don't miss a small cafe called RAHATI, its a family business with everyday fresh homemade sweets and cakes! you can enjoy a nice cold coffee with something sweet after you have walked the village :)
36 locals recommend
Koutouloufari
a very beautiful traditional village, with small alleys and stone-houses!
If you visit it don't miss a small cafe called RAHATI, its a family business with everyday fresh homemade sweets and cakes! you can enjoy a nice cold coffee with something sweet after you have walked the village :)
Arts & Culture
Heraklion Archaeological Museum
1 ChatzidakiShopping
1866
1866our traditional small market
Dedalou
DedalouOur main shopping street
Imatio
23 Pl. El. VenizelouOne of our best places for some luxurious shopping
Essentials
AB Vassilopoulos
the supermarket closest to the apt
Getting Around
the central bus station. from here you can take buses to rethimno-chania-agios nikolaos...and all over crete. Very closely are the bus stops with the buses that go to the airport or knossos..
24 locals recommend
ΚΤΕΛ Ηρακλείου (Bus Station)
the central bus station. from here you can take buses to rethimno-chania-agios nikolaos...and all over crete. Very closely are the bus stops with the buses that go to the airport or knossos..
Our port, from here you can take ferrys to our lovely greek islands! Even if it is only for a day trip to santorini! it is a 2 minute walk from tha apartment!
18 locals recommend
Heraklion port station
78 Leof. NearchouOur port, from here you can take ferrys to our lovely greek islands! Even if it is only for a day trip to santorini! it is a 2 minute walk from tha apartment!
Most of the buses to knossos and/or tha airport pass from our central square.. There are of course bus stops from the same buses closer to the apt, just opposite mcdonalds.
34 locals recommend
Platia Eleftherias
Plateia EleftheriasMost of the buses to knossos and/or tha airport pass from our central square.. There are of course bus stops from the same buses closer to the apt, just opposite mcdonalds.