Staras Comfort Food
Menu for 2023
Greek Salad
Tomatoes, cucumber, peppers, onion, capers, rock samphire, olives, xinomizithra (traditional sour Cretan cheese) and fermented tomato dressing with Cretan herbs.
Warm potato salad
Baby potatoes, roasted vegetables, rocket, anthotiro (traditional hard Cretan cheese), cured egg yolk, toasted hazelnuts, Cretan herbs and black garlic mayonnaise.
Tabbouleh with lamb pastrami
Bulgur, seasonal vegetables, pickles and Cretan herbs
“Staras”
Mixed salad leaves, spinach, rocket, pasteli (sesame bar with honey), pickled green apple, raisins, Cretan graviera flakes, rusks and dried fig dressing.
Horta (wild greens)
With tomato and feta
Tomato Salad
Marinated tomatoes with herbs, kritamon, carob and barley rusk, olives, oregano, balsamic vinegar, olive oil.
Cretan dakos
Barley rusk, chopped tomatoes, herbs and myzithra cheese.
Tzatziki
Greek yoghurt, cucumber, garlic, olive oil, vinegar.
“Malaka” cheese saganaki
With tomato jam.
Crispy graviera sticks
Wrapped in phyllo dough, salty caramel, pistachio.
Fried potatoes
With coarse salt and oregano.
Grilled beef liver
Carob honey dressing, coarse salt and gremolata.
Sirloin Steak
From organic rethymnian shorthorn cow.
Tomahawk 1200gr
Locally bred limousine beef.
Beef sirloin
Dry aged approx. 40 days.
Chicken kontosouvli
Fried potatoes, spicy curry yoghurt, pita bread, lemon oil.
Roasted lamb shank
Cooked sous vide for 18 hours, lamb juices, crashed potatoes
Roasted chicken fillet
Cooked sous vide, graviera and xinohontro cream, potato straw.
Slowly braised beef ribs
Rigatoni with cheese, truffle oil and smoke bechamel sauce.
Grilled beef patties
Fried potatoes, pita bread and paprika dip.
Kebab
Minced beef and lamb meat, spicy tomato sauce, pita bread and yoghurt.
Pork spare ribs
Crashed potatoes, crispy onion, homemade BBQ sauce.
Cretan homemade carob pasta
Apaki, peppers, grated cheese.
Skioufhta with lamb meatballs
Roasted tomato sauce, zucchini, smoked syglino and “anthotyro” strained cheese.
Mushroom orzotto
Mixed mushrooms, truffle oil, graviera cheese, butter.
