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Crete : Top 10 Fish Served in Cretan Restaurants

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1. Fagri

Red sea bream, prized for its delicate white flesh, is grilled and served whole and is one of the most expensive fish dishes on the menu.
2. Melanourgia

A large, silver-scaled fish with tasty white flesh; it’s usually grilled.
3. Barbounia

Small red mullet appear on almost every tourist menu, pan-fried or grilled. Each fish provides only a few delicious mouthfuls – beware of bones!
4. Marides

Tiny whitebait are dipped in flour and shallow-fried, then served with shredded lettuce and a slice of lemon.
5. Lavraki

Sea bass is baked in olive oil, red wine vinegar and rosemary, served whole.
6. Sardelles

Sardines are often wrapped in vine leaves to seal in flavour and moisture, then grilled. Salted and pickled sardines are often served as meze.
7. Xifias

Swordfish keeps its flavour well when frozen, so is a favourite with restaurateurs.
8. Skorpios

The evil-looking scorpion fish is surprisingly tasty and essential in fish soup.
9. Tonnos

Tuna steaks are best savoured in spring and autumn, when tuna migrate through Cretan waters.
10. Gopes

Nondescript-looking, bony little fish that’s the cheapest on the menu, but delicious once the bones are removed.