ELEA Traditional Tavern - Makedonomachon Stilianou Kelaidi ke Christou Makri

Why did I not find this place earlier. The food is just devine, the staff so friendly. Well done to all. We will be back.

Very nice traditional tavern. The service ist extremely friedly, they are also open for special wishes (vegetables instead of rize). We loved the free dessert and raki, of course. However, more choices of vegetables main dishes would bei great.

Super delicious food. Service was very nice and friendly. It was a pleasure to eat in the tavern. There is also a daily menu with traditional dishes. We were there twice during our vacation. Thank you for the nice evening.

Had a nice dinner here at Greek restaurant. Many traditional items on the menu to choose from. The salads were generous sizes and reasonably priced. The service was great, very friendly.

Bread & olives nice, lamb chops trimmed down to circles, salad was a pile of grated carrot on a lettuce leaf. Bill was wrong, they corrected it but it was still wrong. Not recommended.

Amazing food, great service and friendly staff. We ate some of the best Cretan food l have tasted in 40 years of visiting the island

Restaurant with excellent local food. Cretan salad woth local herbs is a Top choise. Very friendly and hospitable staff.

Tourist trap don't even bother coming in. Not sure why the reviews are so high. The service is slow and inattentive. The quality of food is "meh" overall :/ Don't bother coming in if you are not a table of 8 people at least (the bigger the table the more attention you get, unfortunately, we were only 2 people so had to wait for everything). You will have very little attention and will wait for your food (even if it's just a salad) forever. Beer took 10mins and 2 reminders to finally arrive to the table. Waiter and the owner were smoking a cigarrete inside while serving food and pouring drinks. Eggplant salad and zucchini flowers were good, snail were good too although we were offered only dessert fork as service so took forever to eat them [see pics] But then we were unlucky to order fried calamari - the worst in the history (dry, overcooked and rubbery), worst calamari in Crete so far [see pics - calamari are so dark as they are burnt]. Shrimps on grill were also an epic fail : not clean (with sand black strip remaining) most probably frozen as when I started to clean one it was falling apart in my hand as i was cleaning it, mushy and NOT FRESH, i didn't order mashed shrimps... We immediately asked to check with the kitchen and person came saying "they are okey"... My husband ate one I ate none being concerned for our health and quality of food, the whole dish went back to the kitchen but.... (drumroll) we were fully charged for it - hope the stuff had a meal paid by us! We are foodies, we like good quality food AND can assure anyone this food was dangerously bad! P.S. Look at carafe being broken and still put on the table for customers. If the owner is stingy to throw away the broken carafe - don't expect fresh food.