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Rethymnon-Stavromenos - Crete - Greece
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Among
all the restaurants and tavernas in
 Crete
which are published with
m-tours'
web site, Taverna Vigla bears the closest resemblance to a traditional taverna.
The
difference is that a restaurant has a permanent menu, but a taverna offers 1 or 2 dishes of the day.
These
dishes depend on the current supply of ingredients: They will cook just what is available.
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In
Crete, they are however not very particular about this difference.
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There
are tavernas which since long always have the same dishes, actually working like restaurants (regardless whether there is a printed menu or not).
And
there are restaurants where the menus include just a basic stock of dishes which is completed by steadily changing dishes of the day.
These
restaurants actually are tavernas, and Taverna Vigla is one of this type.
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Bifteki
(burgers), Souflaki (skewered pork) and Horiatiki (village salad) are always on offer, and so is Tzatsiki (yoghurt with cucumber and garlic).
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Everything
else will turn out as soon as Yannis the host goes to the market in the morning, where he buys only those things which are the freshest ones.
You
will of course taste the freshness.
For this reason it is advisable always to ask for the dishes of the day.
The
same is for starters as Yannis the host has some very personal imaginative formulas.
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Do
not miss to ask him for his garlic bread:
He uses a kind of vegetable mixture which can not be found anywhere else.
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The
same is for his "Melitzano salata".
Normally, that would be a creme made out of baked eggplant (without the skin), lemon juice and garlic.
At
Taverna Vigla it is something different, and it tastes much better.
And
do also not miss to try the stuffed specialties e.g. tomatoes, peppers and zucchini blossom:
The stuffing is different from the ordinary, again.
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They
frequently have several dishes from the classical Cretan cuisine as well, which are unknown in many other parts of Greece, such as eggplant halves which are stuffed and scalloped with bechamel sauce ("Papoutsia").
Besides
wine, beers, Raki, Ouzo and the usual soft drinks there are the basic ingredients for the preparation of some tall drinks available such as gin, whisky, vodka and Metaxa (Greek brandy).
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Taverna Vigla
is open all-year.
During
wintertime, guests sit inside, and during summertime outside on the front terrace under the pergola, enjoying Mediterranean nights.
The
audience includes all-season a high ratio of newcomers, which are non-Greek people who work in the area of Rethymnon or settled here for retirement.
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The
taverna is by the village border of
Stavromenos
which is one of the suburbs of
Rethymnon
town, in the eastern part of the bay.
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When
approaching from Rethymnon on the New National Road, you can exit by the eastern village border of Stavromenos and continue a short way on the side-lane which runs parallel to the National Road.
When
entering the bay of Rethymnon from Iraklion, you can immediately underpass the New National Road at
Scaleta,
and then continue on the southern parallel lane until Taverna Vigla.
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By the way:
Yannis the host and his brother Manolis rent two holiday villas in their home village of Asteri (above Stavromenos), which are Villa Michalis (4 bedrooms) and Villa Evangelia (3 bedrooms).
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Yannis Uncle Mihalis
Text and photos by Ingo H. Dietrich
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Taverna Vigla
Yannis Kardamitsis
Stavromenos
GR-74100 Rethymnon
Phone (0030) 28310 71845
You are visitor # 1 3 8 5 6
Recommend this site to a friend
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