Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Elounda from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Elounda
These three restaurants show the city’s wine-led side, with curated lists, sommelier-led service, and one Star Wine List recognition.
Old Mill is a Cretan fine dining restaurant in Elounda with a curated wine program focused on Greek wines, plus an extensive wine list and sommelier-led service. It also has an EP Club Creative Cooking highlight, placing the wine work alongside a kitchen built around Cretan ingredients.
Elounda Beach is a modern Mediterranean seafood restaurant in Elounda with a curated wine program, sommelier-led service, and an extensive wine list. It holds a White Star recognition on Star Wine List.
Blue Lagoon Restaurant & Sushi Bar is a waterfront Asian-fusion sushi bar in Elounda with a curated wine program, sommelier-led service, and an extensive wine list. It brings a sushi-bar format into the resort dining scene.
Elounda’s dining identity is tied to the water, with seafood, buffet dining, and open-air hotel restaurants shaping much of the scene.
Yacht Club Restaurant is a cliffside Greek seafood restaurant in Elounda with à la carte service and sweeping views of the bay, boats, and islands. The menu leans into local seafood, and the room sits above the beach with a clear coastal focus.
Deck is the terrace dining room at Elounda Mare Hotel in Elounda, with a sea-facing view over Mirabello Bay. Its cooking moves from a generous buffet with hot dishes prepared to order to à la carte Greek and international dishes drawn from across the country.
ARETOUSSA is at Elounda Bay Palace in the neighbourhood Elounda. The restaurant serves Greek dishes and international dishes in a buffet format, faces the bay, and runs themed dinners each night.
In our guide, the neighbourhood Elounda has the strongest dining concentration, with 27 venues. Among the other neighbourhoods, Elounda Beach and Plaka have fewer venues, and so does the neighbourhood called Plaka, Elounda.
Elounda has no Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide. Michelin Selected recognition applies to hotels including Elounda Beach Hotel & Villas, Phaea Blue, Domes Aulūs Elounda, and Domes of Elounda, Autograph Collection.
Look to Old Mill, Elounda Beach, and Argonaut. Old Mill has a curated wine program focused on Greek wines, Elounda Beach has a curated program with sommelier-led service and an extensive wine list, and Argonaut is one of the two venues in our guide with an exceptional wine program.
Elounda has one Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence in our guide, and the count is citywide. Our guide also counts two exceptional wine programs in the city of Elounda, Greece.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Anthos belongs to the Elounda conversation where Crete’s produce, olive oil, seafood, herbs, and resort dining expectations meet. With few public specifics attached to the restaurant, the sensible read is contextual: judge it as part of the Agios Nikolaos and Mirabello Bay dining circuit, where ingredient provenance matters more than decorative luxury language.
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Deck is the terrace dining room at Elounda Mare, framed by Mirabello Bay and built around a seasonal reading of Crete rather than a destination-restaurant script. Breakfast runs on a generous buffet with hot dishes prepared to order, while cooler-month dinners move into à la carte Greek and international cooking with daily dishes drawn from across the country.
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Elounda Beach holds a White Star recognition on Star Wine List, placing its cellar among the more seriously curated programs on the Cretan coastline. The setting, on the Lassithi shore of eastern Crete, puts the restaurant within a region where proximity to local producers shapes what ends up on the table. For wine-focused diners visiting eastern Crete, it represents a credible anchor point.
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A creative Greek kitchen in Elounda operating under the kind of no-frills discipline that defines the country's best taverna tradition. Chef Kyle Bloomer's menu has earned an EP Club Creative Cooking highlight, signalling a kitchen that treats Cretan ingredients as the argument rather than the backdrop. For the Greek island dining guide, this is a reliable reference point in a town better known for resort excess.
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The Yacht Club Restaurant, perched on a dramatic edge and overlooking the beach below, serves lunch during the entire season. Dinner is served here in the summer months, emphasizing on local Seafood.
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"F" RESTAURANT sits in Elounda, where Cretan cooking is shaped by fishing boats, olive groves, and resort-season dining rhythms. The draw is less about formal accolades than about how a dinner here fits the town’s ingredient-led Greek table: produce, seafood, herbs, and the slower evening pace that defines this stretch of Crete.
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A rooftop canteen in Elounda, Amphiteàtro | PITA Canteen fits the town’s casual, view-led dining rhythm rather than the tasting-menu circuit. Its appeal is less about ceremony than the Cretan logic of simple formats, local produce, and a setting above Schisma Elountas that makes a quick meal feel anchored to place.
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Amphiteàtro | Tesoro Mio is a rooftop address in Elounda, where the appeal sits in the town’s open-air dining rhythm rather than in published awards or chef-led theatre. Read it through the Cretan resort context: sea air, evening light, and a setting that belongs to the slower end of Elounda’s restaurant scene.
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ARETOUSSA belongs to Elounda’s quieter dining register: a Cretan address where the point is less spectacle than place, season and proximity to the sea. In a resort town split between hotel dining rooms, waterfront tavernas and polished destination restaurants, it reads as a useful counterweight for travelers who want Greek cooking anchored in local ingredients rather than ceremony.
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Argo Restaurant belongs to Elounda’s resort-coast dining circuit, where the strongest meals usually depend less on theatre than on access to Cretan produce, seafood traditions, olive oil, herbs, and summer vegetables. With few formal details published, it is better read as a local dining option to compare against Elounda’s Greek and terroir-led restaurants than as an awards-led destination meal.
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Argonaut fits the seaside rhythm of Elounda, where Cretan cooking is strongest when it stays close to the island’s growers, fishing culture, olive oil and herbs. With no formal awards or price tier published, the useful way to read it is as part of the town’s broader waterfront dining circuit rather than as a destination tasting-menu address.
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ARIADNE fits Elounda’s dining context, where Cretan produce, resort-season rhythms, and the Mirabello Bay setting shape the meal as much as any formal culinary label. Treat it as a local reference point for ingredient-led Greek island dining, especially if the plan is to compare Elounda’s hotel restaurants, waterfront tables, and nearby Agios Nikolaos options in one trip.
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Artemis belongs to the quieter side of Elounda dining, where the conversation is less about spectacle than about Crete’s raw materials: olive oil, vegetables, herbs, seafood and lamb shaped by a dry, coastal climate. With no formal award signal or published price band attached, it reads as a restaurant to judge through setting, sourcing logic and fit within a resort-town evening rather than trophy credentials.
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Blue Door Taverna fits the beachside Plaka rhythm: Cretan cooking framed by water, small boats, and the ingredient logic of eastern Crete. The draw is not ceremony but provenance, with fish, olive oil, herbs, and vegetables doing the heavy lifting in a village that looks across to Spinalonga.
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Blue Lagoon Restaurant & Sushi Bar brings a sushi-bar format into Elounda’s resort dining orbit, where Cretan seafood culture meets the international habits of the Mirabello Bay hotel corridor. Use it as a category choice rather than a trophy-table play: the draw is the Asian-leaning format in a town otherwise shaped by tavernas, grilled fish, and waterfront Greek cooking.
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Named Europe's Leading Luxury Villa Resort at the 2025 World Travel Awards and a member of Leading Hotels of the World, Elounda Beach Hotel & Villas occupies a privileged position on Crete's Mirabello Bay. The property competes in the upper tier of Elounda's concentrated luxury hotel strip, where address, water access, and villa scale separate the leading options from the rest.
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Positioned between the fishing village of Plaka and the port of Elounda on Crete's northeastern coast, Phaea Blue is a small-scale SLH-member property with direct beach access and unobstructed views of Spinalonga Island. The accommodation runs from bungalows and suites to a three-bedroom private villa, with a design language drawn from Greek art, natural materials, and local craft traditions. It occupies a quieter register of Aegean luxury than the larger resort complexes in the area.
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Elounda Gulf Villas is a Small Luxury Hotels of the World member on the Cretan hillside above the Gulf of Mirabello, with 18 private villas and 15 suites, each oriented toward Spinalonga Island. Three consecutive appearances in Tatler's '101 Best Hotels of the World' and a World Travel Awards Greece's Leading Villa title frame its position at the quieter, more private end of Elounda's competitive luxury tier.
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Domes Aulūs Elounda is an adults-only, all-inclusive resort on Crete's Mirabello Bay, where private-pool suites and gourmet dining sit against one of Greece's most photographed coastlines. The property positions itself in Elounda's upper tier of design-led hospitality, pairing high-energy entertainment with the architectural language of the Aegean. For travellers seeking structured luxury without sacrifice, it makes a compelling case.
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A Leading Hotels of the World member on the Cretan waterfront at Schisma Eloundas, Elounda Bay Palace sits within one of Greece's most concentrated clusters of high-end resort properties. The property operates at a tier where anticipatory service and setting work together, positioning it against a peer group that includes Elounda Beach Hotel and Elounda Mare. Advance planning is advised for peak Aegean season.
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Three-time World Travel Awards winner in 2025, Domes of Elounda, Autograph Collection holds recognition as both Europe's and the World's Leading Luxury Family Resort alongside Greece's Leading Luxury All-Suite Hotel. Set along the Schisma Elountas coastline in Elounda, the property positions itself in the upper tier of Cretan resort hospitality, where suite-format accommodation and programme depth define the competitive set.
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A family-run Relais & Châteaux property on the Gulf of Mirabello, Elounda Mare Hotel has anchored the upper tier of Cretan hospitality for decades. Villas with private plunge pools and direct sea access sit alongside a sandy beach on one of the Aegean's most sheltered coastlines. Rates from US$337 per night.
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