Taverna Spilios is the perfect place to taste traditional Cretan Cuisine.
Taste traditional Cretan Cuisine and wines while enjoying the breath-taking view of Falassarna beach. The owners and staff are there to make you feel “at home” and try to pamper you and your company. Making your meal not only a culinary delight but also helping you relax in the beautiful surroundings of the restaurant. Make sure you take a walk to the beautiful garden to see the huge natural cave which has been sitting for thousands of years and which the restaurant has been named after “Spilios” the greek word for cave.
Appetizers
Dolmadakia
vine leaves & zucchini flowers stuffed
with rice & herbs served with yoghurt
GF
Gluten Free
Apaki
smoked lean pork seasoned & cured, smoked with olive wood & sage, marjoram & thyme
T
Traditional Cretan
gf
Gluten Free
Salads
Cretan salad spilios style
tomato, cucumber, onion, peppers,
mizithra cheese, olives, lettuce,
cretan rusk
T
Traditional Cretan
R
Recommended
Astarte’s Salad
“Astarte” (a Phoenician goddess)
lettuce, coral lettuce, cherry tomatoes,
walnuts, figs, graviera cheese, croutons,
balsamic cream, grape syrup & oil
Cretan Cuisine
Spilios special
beef cooked in a spicy tomato sauce
with red & greens peppers
& pieces of feta cheese
Rabbit stifado
rabbit & whole onions cooked with tomato sauce, flavoured with cinnamon, cloves and wine
The gardener’s dish
pieces of eggplant, red & green
peppers, onion, garlic, zucchini,
potatoes, tomatoes & parsley
Pasta
Spaghetti with grated cheese
Spaghetti with grated cheese
NGF
Not Gluten Free
V
SUITABLE FOR VEGETARIANS
Grilled meat
Chicken fillet with staka
topped with a roux from the milk fat of goat’s & sheep’s milk and served with fried potatoes.
Chicken fillet a la crème
topped with a creme cooked with mushrooms & bacon served with fried potatoes.
Pork fillet with staka
topped with a roux from the milk fat of goat’s & sheep’s milk and served with fried potatoes.
Minced-meat patties served with fried potatoes
Mixed beef & pork patties served with fried potatoes.
Minced-meat patties a la crème
Mixed beef & pork patties topped with a creme cooked with mushrooms & bacon served with fried potatoes.