GOURMET MEETS LOCAL

Greece promises to be a gastronomy experience that you’ll never forget. We invite you to take part in a game of discovering new tastes and aromas, new combinations of foods, new fruits of the earth. The gastronomy will excite you: traditional Greek breakfast, colourful authentic Mediterranean cuisine, local products, fine wines.
Because the food culture of the location is such an integral part of each culinary experience, we let the country and region dictate the food we serve.
Highlights for our Greek retreats
The Greek Breakfast
High nutritional value and the quality of the Mediterranean products, along with their tradition and experiential character, account for Greek breakfast’s special features.
Taste the Greek breakfast
- Bread, pastries, buns
- Cheese, yoghurt, traditional yoghurt, butter, sour milk, etc
- Cold cuts, meat
- Honey, sesame bar, tahini
- Local traditional marmalades
- Olive oil and olives
- Eggs (boiled, fried, omelettes)
- Pies (cheese pies, green pies, etc)
- Local sweets
- Fresh fruit, juices, fruit salads, seasonal vegetables, local or biological
- Warm traditional soup (frumenty, pulses, etc)
- Cereals (wheat, frumenty, etc)
- Herbal drinks
- Greek coffee
Greek breakfast from Crete
The uniqueness of its products, their daily consumption and their high nutritional value, are the reasons why the Cretan diet is ideal for healthy living.
Taste the Cretan breakfast:
- Rusks
- Moustokouloura
- Graviera with honey
- Xynomyzithra
- Sygklino (salted and smoked pork)
- Apaki (smoked pork)
- Sausages
- Fried eggs with staka (butter-cream)
- Cream cheese pies (myzithra)
- Fried green pie
- Xerotigana: fried thin plies of dough
- Lyhnarakia: filled with myzithra and cream cheese (anthotyro), etc
- Boureki from Chania
- Bougatsa (cream pie)
- Herbal teas
Lunches and dinners
A lunch or dinner can last for hours, and the more people gathered at the table the better; for good food and good wine bring good talk. So, sit down and prepare to enjoy yourself. You will enjoy freshness and excellence of the local produce: the just-picked salads, the freshly caught seafood, the meat from livestock raised on a hillside.
A sample of traditional foods
The emphasis is on authentic raw ingredients and grown locally – simple dishes, cooked slowly, seasoned with herbs and olive oil rather than exotic spices, with love and imagination.
Taramasalata
A mainstay of any Greek meal are classic dips such as tzatziki (yogurt, cucumber and garlic), melitzanosalata (aubergine), and fava (creamy split pea purée). But the taramasalata (fish roe dip) is a must. This creamy blend of pink or white fish roe with either a potato or bread base is best with a drizzle of virgin olive oil or a squeeze of lemon.
Olives & olive oil
Greek meals are accompanied by local olives, some cured in a hearty sea salt brine, others like wrinkly throubes, eaten uncured from the tree. Olive oil, the elixir of Greece, is used liberally in cooking and salads, and drizzled over most dips and dishes. Many tavernas use their own oil.
Moussaka
The iconic Greek baked dish is based on layering: sautéed aubergine, minced meat fried pureed tomato, onion, garlic and spices like cinnamon and allspice, a bit of potato, and then a final fluffy topping of cheese and béchamel sauce.
Grilled meat
Souvlaki is still Greece’s favourite fast food, both the gyros and skewered meat versions wrapped in pitta bread, with tomato, onion and lashings of tzatziki. At the taverna, local free-range lamb, pork and kid goat are favourites.
Fresh fish
Fish and calamari fresh from the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas are incredibly tasty and cooked grilled whole and drizzled with ladholemono (a lemon and oil dressing).
Feta and cheeses
When in Greece, be sure to sample the vast array of fresh cheeses. At bakeries you will find tyropita (cheese pie), at tavernas, salads like Cretan dakos, which is topped with a crumbling of mizithra, a soft, white cheese.
Honey & baklava
The classic baklava is a start, layering honey, filo and ground nuts. Or try galaktoboureko, a sinful custard-filled pastry. Or pour a lovely dollop of local thyme honey over fresh Greek yogurt.
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