Dafnes is a food day trips in Heraklion.
Editorially verified August 1, 2026 by Elliot Marsh, TableJourney editor. Source.
Day trip · 8 hours
Discover the traditions of Crete in the villages of Heraklion on a day tour. Visit a local olive mill, a bakery, and a creamery. Taste the Cretan bouquet of famous products.
Day trip · 8 hours
Explore the landscapes, villages & eateries of the Lassithi Plateau on a day trip from Heraklion or Hersonissos. Source your own ingredients on a Cretan black truffle hunt.
Day trip · 6 hours
An ultimate experience of wine tasting in two awarded cretan wineries. Explore the village of Myrtia, birthplace of N. Kazantzakis & learn about the art of Minoan Pottery.
Skalani sits a fifteen-minute drive past Knossos from Heraklion, where Olive and Mint cooks new Cretan food on Ifigenias among the vineyards.
The Peza appellation south of Heraklion is the island's densest run of wineries, with Domaine Paterianakis farming organically near the village of Melesses.
Krousonas sits in the Malevizi foothills half an hour west of Heraklion, where the Baxes taverna runs cooking lessons under its own grapevine.
Archanes is the easiest food escape from Heraklion, a restored village fifteen kilometres south where Kritamon cooks on the main village square.