Some of the traditional dishes worth try during your stay in Chania.
Start with Dako (Cretan nut with oregano tomato, mizithra or feta olive oil) but end with wild grass or stinging nettle, and supplement with fish-Seafood, and meat, village sausages etc of the area.
In traditional especially restaurants-taverns you can enjoy kalitsouni with
fennel spinach, weeds or with cheese, Sfakian pies, meat-cake, snails – cooked with various recipes, from Chania patty, wedding pilaf, cream cheese, Cretan gruyere, apaki-convergent
(smoked pork), staka (cream from natural milk). And sweeten…
Definitely, xerotigana (traditional sweet at weddings), from Chania
bougatsa, donuts from Chania.
And clink your glasses with tsikoudia the drink symbol of Cretan, in addition to local wines, local beers and soft drinks.