Restaurants in Kaliviani

For dining in Kaliviani you will find three good restaurants in the centre of the village. All of them serve traditional Cretan dishes and homemade wine and raki.

While you will arrive in Kaliviani, just 5 minutes drive away from the town of Kissamos, you will have the opportunity to choose from the three restaurants where you will taste the famous Cretan cuisine.

The first option is the restaurant Kaliviani. This restaurant at the tip of the cape Gramvousa or Gramboussa opened its doors on 1996 and from then on thousands of people have taste their unique dishes. With a breathtaking view to the Golf of Kissamos and a charmingly decorated yard, they will serve by offering you some of their specialities. Note that their menu will be updated during the summer of 2013, so do not miss to give a try, as their experience promises a good value of dining.

The second option is the restaurant Grambousa. This restaurant offer traditional Cretan dishes and beverages. The restaurant could not be renowned for its cuisine, were it not for its successful combination of the two most basic "ingredients" required for exqusitely tasty, yet simultaneously healthy cuisine: the purest ingredients of the cretan earth, and the traditional recipes, which date back to the 18th century.


The third option is the tavern Agarathos. The tavern located in Kaliviani in front of the tavern Gramboussa.
In the tavern you can enjoy the traditional Cretan cuisine, that Mr.Nikos and his family are able to offer. In the tavern the atmosphere reminiscent of something from the past and with people who cared to prepare for you a unique experience of simplocity and taste, with fresh vegetable, local meat and Cretan virgin olive oil of their own production.

Falassarna Beach

The local people from Kissamos are very pround for their beaches. Visitors from all over the world every year visit the largest and cleanest beach of westernnorth Crete. Falassarna beach gives the feeling that you are in an exotic place in the world. It is the favorite beach of local people and nowdays to the visitors from Europe. It's very easy to reach Falassarna while you are staying around Kissamos. Many services are providing on the beach and some of the wonderful family taverns will feed you with excellent home made food. Falassarna is one of the reasons to come in Crete and live the good life under the sun. We strongly reccemended, one or more visits to Falassarna will make your holidays memorable. If you deside to spend all your vacations at that beautiful beach, there are some hotels in Falassarna in responsible prices. Enjoy your life in Crete.

Dining in Kissamos

During the summer you will find excellent options for dinner or lunch in Kissamos and the sourounding areas. The most of the greek taverns offer traditional Cretan dishes and beverages. The local meat, the fresh vegetable and the tasty cheese is just some of the traditional flavours you can taste in Crete. Of course do not miss the local red wine, which you will found it in every house as a traditional treat compined with your lunch or dinner. After dinner the Cretan people has the tradition to offer an alcoholic beverage which made by grapes and it called tsikoudia or raki. This excellent treat is stroger than the usual hard beverages, like vodka, but has the flavour and the aroma of a original Cretan beverage, do not miss it. Discover the traditional restaurants in Kissamos and enjoy wonderful meals during your holidays in Crete.