Merastri - Irakleion

Excellent Cretean meal! We highly recommend this restaurant whilst in Heraklion. It’s a short walk from the city centre and totally worth passing other places/ going a bit further afield. We enjoyed the traditional Cretean ways of complimentary bread, dessert and raki ouzo. For main we shared the orange salad and wild goat. We opted for greens with the goat rather than potato, due to the amount of bread that came as an appetiser. The waiter wasn’t keen on this he said it wouldn’t taste good, and we liked his honesty and pride for his food. But safe to say the greens were delicious and everything worked really well for our taste. Overall, we highly recommend this restaurant, book ahead, and be ready to eat a lot (there were many things on the menus we were too full for! .

First Cretan dinner and first success! Excellent dishes, especially the lamb liver. Enormous portions (as usual we ordered too much but we ended up eating it all. Nice service and good prices.

A delightful but relaxed restaurant that eats is delicious and well prepared while the atmosphere is relaxed thanks to friendly staff. we tried a series of directed, salat, apaki, high-time, sausage, saganaki, huge zucchini balls, filled wein leaves. everything was delicious and full of taste. it is common to get a free nibbel before and/or after eating in Greece, but merastri went over and beyond with a plate of freshly baked broth, minze raki and orange cake with ice. I would definitely return and recommend merastri.

Everything was so delicious and tasteful. I tried for the first time in my life goat meat and never tried before I thought it was stinking. but they made it so delicious that I couldn't stop eating it. if they are on kreta, they must go this restaurant and enjoy the traditional cuisine

Unforgettable experience! Everything great, very delicious and generous. Staff very kind and welcoming. We got so excited that we commanded a lot and we were in trouble to finish all the dishes We loved and for sure we’ll back.