Rethymno | Why Crete has The Best food in Greece

Rett and Katina travel to Rethymno Crete to discover why Crete has the best food in Greece. The Crete culture is centered around food and there is so much great produce in Crete. We dine with renowned chef Michalis Hasikos at his resteraunt, Hasika, and guests from our favorite producers in Crete. Hasika is known as one of the best restaurants in Crete as they serve modern Greek food while also holding true to traditional greek food. We also visit the Tsounati olive grove of Efkrato to harvest olives for their high phenolic olive oil as well as visit Iliana Milihin at her winery.
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[@lefkadamicrofarm3644]

We want more Greek talk from Rett!!! 🤘💪👌

[@becoming_greek]

😂 Σιγά-σιγά. Θα μιλάω καλύτερα μία μέρα

[@sammyvandenburg]

This is so lovely to watch, please never stop making these! We are visiting Crete again in July this year for the 3rd time in 3 years. This video perfectly embodies some of our own experiences.

[@becoming_greek]

Thank you so much! Its comments like that help us know we are on the right track with this. Obviously, we believe in what we are doing here but a lot goes into this so help us share these so that we can grow to a place where we can keep doing as many of these as we want to

[@SM-JIL]

I am going for the first time this year! Love this content so MUCH, and am so stoked to go even more. Taking notes of where to go and importantly, eat.

[@TheDuskmourn]

So beautiful. Thank you both for this gift of bringing the beautiful things of Greece to life in vivid detail!

[@becoming_greek]

Thank you for following along from the beginning 😀 Just need to keep getting the work out to Greeks everywhere and people who enjoy travel content

[@SM-JIL]

​@@becoming_greek you sure have for me! I am a Serb in Australia, who LOVES Greece!! I would love it if you could also link websites or details of the local businesses/producers that you feature, if you can. thanks. Beautiful content and cinematography in your videos. Katina, you really make me hungry when you eat with such happiness and joy - would this count as "kefi"? 🤩

[@achillespaparsenos5649]

I’m so ενθουσιασμένος to hear you try to speak Greek, Rett! Rock on! Y’all are living my dream right now. Keep up the amazing work.

[@becoming_greek]

Haha Προσπαθώ να μιλάω ελληνικά 😂 Σιγά-σιγά as they say… one day I’ll get there

[@ItsmeAlexCrete]

Beautiful made , and Rethymno is really amazing, there are plenty places with really good food inside and outside of Rethymno. Many greetings from Rethymno!

[@becoming_greek]

Thank you! Totally agree that there are so many great food places in Rethymno and the people there are incredible

[@jjcproducer]

My wife and I just enjoyed an evening of watching most all of your videos exploring multiple Greek islands and locations. What a sweet and very well done collection of slice-of-life videos! Such a nice job of editing for engaging flow and great job of balancing audio. And the videography was excellent! From one pro to another: kudos! :-)

[@becoming_greek]

Thank you! It’s what I do. I have a small video production company in America called Masters of Visual Arts (MOVA).. I do go back a couple of times a year for some big consecutive projects and then executive producing/ creative directing the other stuff while I’m here and focusing on this as much as I can in free time. Where are you based?

[@authentictuscany]

One word - Beautiful - thank you for making and sharing this video!

[@becoming_greek]

Thank you as always for your support and watching 😁🇬🇷🙌

[@junematte3441]

Great content guys. Will be returning to Crete June 1st. We will be sure to check out the restaurant. Retire to Crete 2025

[@becoming_greek]

Have fun! Hasika is 🤤

[@humanwatchman2682]

Love the cinematic productions. Greece is a beautiful place to pursue and develop this type of adventure. Best of luck moving forward.

[@becoming_greek]

Thank you for following! Totally agree that Greece is the perfect place for this 😀

[@Subgunman]

Kefi comes from the heart with passion for every thing in life. We are lucky to have quite a few of the Tsounates olive trees on our property. With loving care they have a habit of producing olives in abundance every other year. We also try to grow our own vegetables at home however with the ever increasing temperatures the last few years it has become quite difficult but depending on the microclimate of the area we have seen certain crops thriving while others have failed. No chemicals, we know what we eat, however the EU has recently passed legislation forbidding home growing. This is what we in Rethymno consider illegal. As friendly and open as the Cretan community is they will defend their way of life of self preservation when outsiders step in to alter what they have lived with for generations.

[@becoming_greek]

Wait… the EU is saying that you can’t home grow what exactly?

[@lefkadamicrofarm3644]

Wonderfull!!!

[@becoming_greek]

Slowly we are learning more and more about olive trees. You really planted a seed, more to come on that soon 🇬🇷

[@SM-JIL]

really enjoyed learning about your microfarm on this channel

[@TheHappyHoopDancer]

Supporting people doing it right

[@cedricdunkerly8021]

To taste is to believe.

[@becoming_greek]

Perfect blend of great products, traditional know how and a creative and talented chef

[@juliadh2088]

In my opinion, (and I have travelled a lot of the Greek Islands the past 30 years) it is not Crete that has the best food in Greece, but Ikaria. Ikaria is a Blue Zones. Which means the people there live to the the oldest in the world. That has a lot to do with the food of course. The food is not only very healthy but also very, VERY delicious.

[@becoming_greek]

Ikaria is certainly on our list! Katina's parents have spend a good amount of time there as have many friends. If you talk to Cretans, many of the villages there have centurians, just like Ikaria and there are many similarities in this. The things that Crete has learned lately about how to take the ancient knowledge and improve upon it, along with their produce really makes Crete quite special. Also beacuse they are situated in a way to cultivate all of the produce that they need is quite unique and beyond what other Greek islands are able to do. Also, the diversity of cuisine in Crete is unlike what you see around Greece. From what I know about Ikaria, the lifestyle, lack of stress, purpose still given to elders are also big contributors of it being a place to live a longer life.

[@SM-JIL]

yes I was reading also that Crete should be another blue zone because of the number of centurians there@@becoming_greek

[@rettthompson1525]

@@SM-JIL its definitely what the locals here think :) I'm sure the people who have named the Blue Zones don't like to consider "more than one place" per country a Blue Zone... but the Cretans look at Ikaria and say that the same thing happens in Crete concerning longevity and that its not so unique from them

[@savvaskaragiannidis4345]

Αν εισασταν Ελληνες θα λεγατε ευθυμια και οχι kefi, και το ωραιο ηταν που ειπε η αλλη οτι ειναι δυκολο να μεταφραστει στην αγγλικη...

[@becoming_greek]

Νομίζω ότι αυτό είναι διαφορετικά μέρη στην Ελλάδα, ακούμε ανθρώπους να λένε κέφι και έχουν μιλήσει για αυτό με πολλούς Έλληνες. Η γιαγιά της Κατίνας είπε «Αν κάνεις κάτι, πρέπει να το κάνεις με κέφι».

[@savvaskaragiannidis4345]

@@becoming_greek Μα δεν ειναι ελληνικο το ονομα, οι Ελληνες θα λεγανε ευθυμια, χαρμη, η χαρμονη (χαρμοσυνη), ευδιαθεσια, και αλλα πολλα, το κεφι ειναι αλλοθροο, βαρβαρο. Ασμενως.