Places to Eat and Drink
The treat of treats for both food and visual flair - authentic natural Cretan grown ingredients and steel-tech-traditional meets cavern & Venetian rock: Avli restaurant. Few restaurants offer the choice of different styles and decor in one place. You will find it hard to choose whether to sit at a table in the large dining hall, beneath ancient arches, walls lined with wine bottles, wrought iron trim and creative decor - versus - another very cosy area of the restaurant with white linen covered tables. Part of the whole space is the "Enoteca" wine bar and in the centre of the building is a beautiful courtyard ("Avli" means courtyard), where you can dine in the summer. Main courses are all mouth-watering, so your own choice must rule.
There is a famous Gyros bar which is along the sea front. Petro's serves the best Gyros to the highest quality. They are open till late so even after a night out on the town you can enjoy a gyros to walk home with. The mix of either natural yoghurt or tzakiki along with crispy chips, kebab meat and sprinkled with salt and paprika is anybodies fantasy as all the different tastes melt in your mouth to release a burst of ecstasy.
Thalassografia,
by the Fortezza.
Coffee, drinks, meze (appetizers), fresh salads, fish and seafood, Greek
cuisine - all mouth watering. A great location and super view. Splendid
refresher. Open March/April to October..
Quaint: taverna Gounas, with live Cretan music most evenings.
Hari’s creperie, good and many varieties (nice interior too). Very near the Rimondi fountain, corner of Arabatzoglou and Mesologgiou.
Go into one of
the cafes on edge of Iroon Polytechniou, the square in front of the
prefecture building and the central police station…you can have a meze
with an ouzo or a beer. It’s a little contrast with either being on the
beach or some of the cafes more central or on the waterfront, where
perhaps the music they are playing is not to your liking. And it’s a
change of pace and style anyway, and you will return to your wandering
around the highlights with a new blank canvas – refreshed!
Sit at the end cafe and you can glance at the sea anyway!
Along the
seafront, the surprisingly varied faster foods at Goody's can be useful
between greater feasts. A few doors along are a Chinese and a Mexican
restaurant if this satisfies the need of the moment.
Nightclubs
abound on Melissinou (where Fortezza hotel is and your likely first
parking place in Rethymno is). Also Arkadiou street, near the museum
shop, and down to the waterfront has several nightclubs ready to hit the
groove.
Watch out for
Petradi and Delfini hotels on your right where you will find
Pastopoieion restaurant. Stone building, together with Delfini hotel, on
the waterfront. Mediterranean cuisine, fish.
A little further, on your right, there is Tabakario taverna, which is on
the seafront. It is good (outdoors) in summer on the water's edge or
indoors in cooler weather. This stone building seems to stay warm
naturally. Food is a standard menu and has always been of good quality
over the last couple of years.
About 50 m further (after Tabakario) is a small road leading down to the
right. The places here afford great views across the sea to the fortress
of Rethymno, offering good restaurants and charming cafes for a quieter
(though these places can get busy) pace of being just outside central
Rethymno.
Taverna food is most appetizing at Prima Plora.
Source: http://www.cretetravel.com/Rethymno/Rethymno.htm