The best Greek islands for food and wine
Greek island food is rarely bad, but a handful of islands are genuine destinations for it, with their own wines, cheeses and dishes worth crossing the sea for. These rank highest for eating and drinking well.
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Greece's slow-food island — clay-pot cooking and pottery villages.
See Sífnos →
Greece's largest island — Minoan Knossós, the Samariá Gorge and a celebrated food tradition.
See Crete →
Marble-carving villages, hundreds of dovecotes and a serious food scene.
See Tínos →
The marble Portara, long sandy beaches and green mountain villages inland.
See Náxos →
A Venetian-built Old Town (UNESCO) on one of Greece's greenest islands.
See Corfu →
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Aígina
Αίγινα · Saronic Gulf
The Doric Temple of Aphaía, famous pistachios and the shortest hop from Piraeus.
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Ikaría
Ικαρία · North Aegean
A Blue Zone island of long-lived locals, all-night village festivals and wild beaches.
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Lésvos
Λέσβος · North Aegean
Greece's third-largest island — the birthplace of ouzo, a petrified forest and the town of Mólyvos.
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