Gastronomy
Start your day with a sumptuous and healthy breakfast and enjoy your dinner with a big variety of Cretan, Greek and international dishes, all cooked with local ingredients. Both breakfast and dinner are served in buffet style.
For 2020 our menu is based on the Cretan and Mediterranean diet, recognized worldwide for the nutritional value of its raw materials.
Olive oil, Cretan herbs and spices, legumes, vegetables, fish and meat, all selected by local producers.
Follow us in delicious taste trip with:
Minoan Salad with “radika” wild green, zea, nuts, dried figs, raisins, olive oil and honey.
Dish of King Minos A recipe based on historical records of the Minoan eating habits, which, with the very first bite, will travel you to the palace of Knossos at the table of King Minos.
Pork with legumes, cereals, wild herbs and, leek and carob, cooked in a Minoan clay pot - a genuine copy of the Minoan era.
“Gamopilafo” the traditional “wedding rice” that is served in Cretan weddings to this day. Boiled in lamb and chicken broth and finished with traditional “Stakovutero” butter.
“Kaltsounia” small pies of handmade dough with tsikoudia and filling of spinach, myzithra cheese and fresh herbs, baked in the cinder.
“Patuda" of Pasiphae a traditional sweet blooming with rose water and sweet filling with nuts, aromatic cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, honey, olive oil, tsikoudia and lye (handmade ashwater), that conceals the fragrances of Crete.
Contact Details
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Orpheas Resort
- Kavros, Gergiopoupolis, 73007, Crete, Greece
- Tel: +30 28250 61218
- Fax: +30 28250 61007
- Email: info@orpheas-resort.gr
- ΜΗ.Τ.Ε. 1042K014A0172200
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