Top 10 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.
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2. Melanourgia
A large, silver-scaled fish with tasty white flesh; it’s usually grilled.
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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!
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4. Marides
Tiny whitebait are dipped in flour and shallow-fried, then served with shredded lettuce and a slice of lemon.
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5. Lavraki
Sea bass is baked in olive oil, red wine vinegar and rosemary, served whole.
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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.
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7. Xifias
Swordfish keeps its flavour well when frozen, so is a favourite with restaurateurs.
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8. Skorpios
The evil-looking scorpion fish is surprisingly tasty and essential in fish soup.
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9. Tonnos
Tuna steaks are best savoured in spring and autumn, when tuna migrate through Cretan waters.
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10. Gopes
Nondescript-looking, bony little fish that’s the cheapest on the menu, but delicious once the bones are removed.
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