To Stachi - Wheat

This is some of the tastiest food I've ever had anywhere on this planet :) The owners are super friendly and cook everything with love, with carefully selected ingredients, 100% local. They speak english, and it's very vegan friendly. Very nice atmosphere too, highly recommended :)

An amazing experience of flavors, and no less amazing experience of the service provided by the talented chef, Stalios.
His love for cooking is evident in every bite, a delightful experience and certainly the most delicious place in Crete.
You can really feel the love for cooking and people in his food.

Lovely place and really friendly English speaking staff (family run) who are so knowledgeable about all their dishes and the ingredients. A lot of choice and most of the menu was vegan or vegan adaptable. Food was simply the best meal I had over there, cooked to perfection, spoilt for choice and really good value for money. Will definitely be going there next time!

We ended up ordering a bunch of starters and half a bottle of wine and after that we were full. The food was delicious and they had plenty of things to choose from. My favorite was grilled aubergine with raisins, pine seeds and garlic. All dishes had a lot of oil on it, but you could always just ask them to go easy on the oil if you're on a low-fat diet. The dinner for two, including wine, cost just 30 euros. Very good food and drinks for the money!

Have eaten lunch at this place in September 2016. The waiter was speaking English and let us choose a table to seat at. Then the chef approached us and described the ingredients in various dishes and made some suggestions on what things we could try.

The food was prepared a couple of hours earlier so we got the food in a matter of 10 minutes or so. All food was tasty and fresh. We also got some tiny pieces of other dishes we haven't ordered to give it a try for free.

The staff was friendly, the facilities are clean and tidy. We were satisfied and hope to go back at some point.

Really worth seeking out, friendly welcome and great range of Veggie and Vegan food. Main menu supplemented by delicious specials. I had a warm Hummus and raisin starter ( it's quite hard to find Hummus in the resort shops in Crete) and a main of artichokes, peas and potatoes, which was all fresh and tasty. My wife had mixed stuffed vegetables, all very flavoursome. They also offer Vegan beers and winds, I enjoyed a dark beer from Rethimno. I'd really recommend the people and food.

We went to To Stachi because there are not more options in that area of Crete and we were surprised by the amount of vegan options on the menu, including tipical dishes from the region. The staff, owner's daughters and the boy that accompanies them, is wonderful and the chef / owner even shared with us a recipe that impressed us. We ate zucchini flowers stuffed with rice, hummus and vegan special mussaka, and liked it so much (especially mussaka) that we went back another day for dinner. The second day we could not enjoy the mussaka because that day was not vegan and we ate Fava (mashed lentils), vegetables stuffed with rice and herbs and okra, all very tasty. Absolutely recommended for the treatment, quality and price.

It does have lots of vegan options and lots of them looked nice so I took the zucchini flowers, wine leaves and a tomato stuffed with rice and herbs and the rice was terribly undercooked. I doubt it was even cooked at all it was still really hard. The rest of my family their dishes were nice though. If you go there, definitly try the hummus because it was the best one I have tasted during my whole stay in Crete.

Very nice little restaurant with lots of vegan options! I had the vegan moussaka and my dad (not vegan) as well and we both enjoyed it very much! The eggplant appetizer was also delicious and the staff was very friendly. I would definitely recommend this place!

We visited To Stachi during our holidays and just had to come back! Went there twice and it was such a pleasant experience both times. We're not talking only food here, but the 'staff' is really kind and prices are good and the chef and his daughter just tell you everything about the menu and ... oh god, it is just so good I can't explain it with words. Definitely worth a visit or two (or ten)! P.S.: best roasted eggplant I've ever eaten!

Very nice little restaurant that is family run with attention to using the vast local produce at their disposal. The boureki was particularly nice when we had it.

Real nice restaurant. The Food is very special and really delicious. The spice cake with cherries are very convincingly.
The dine are all vegetarian, some alternative for vegans and the food is organic, regional.

Food made with love, very nice service and unforgettable dinning experience. Would recommend to any vegeterian/vegan visiting Chania.

so happy that we found this cosy place. super-nice service, perfect understanding of non-meat/non-animal attitude.
vegetarian place, dishes however mainly vegan anyway, or with vegan option (tofu/soja instead of cheese). vegan desserts! highly recommended - have a look into their guest book!

Really enjoyed the meal we had here. The dishes were all delicious and the service is very friendly. The restaurant is easy to find and is located on a quiet street just away from the busy coastal main strip. The owner/chef helpfully explains the menu to you, which contains several vegan items. At the end of the meal we were given a small piece of home-made cake and some fresh fruit. Generally, as a vegetarian you can usually find something to eat at most restaurants in Crete, but you get a bit tired of the same old stuff. It was really nice to be able to try vegetarian versions of things like stifado and moussaka, which aren't always available in other places.

The people eating next to us could not stop raving about this place but I thought it was just OK. Very nice staff and the owner comes out and explains the menu to you and will tell you what is vegan and what has cheese. They serve appetizers, 'on the cob' dishes, traditional cretan mains and pastas.

It was epensive for us, although maybe tha's just Cretan prices generally. The food was nice although although mine was lukewarm but I dis not love it.

Of course, there are not many options for vege food in Chania so it was nice to go to a restaurant catering for it.

We had a spinach pie, fried potatoes and hummus here a couple of days ago, and will go back today. The owner gladly told us how he made his special hummus, which was great. Chania can be noisy, but this was in a quiet street close to the sea. Recommended.

This airy cafe close to the Venetian port and opposite a kiddies' playground is a tasty rest stop whilst exploring this beautiful old town.
The style is traditional Cretan, and you may be served by the chefs daughter who's welcoming, efficient and vegan, which is both handy and influential. There are sometimes even vegan versions of Cretan dairy dishes. The spinach pie was the best we had in Crete, and the aubergine dish is a customer favourite. The bread is yummy too, which is quite a rare thing in restaurants there.

It is a great place to eat.People are so friendly.Food is really tasty and the place that is located beautiful.

Once again, Happy Cow leads us to a gem. Cretan food is already very wonderful and full of local flavours, but it's so nice to have a place like this that is all vegetarian and very vegan friendly. I had the pumpkin starter and the moussaka. Both were great. My husband had the Spanokopita and the Bouraki. The Bouraki was really wonderful...it had pumpkin, goat cheese, and potato, with a pastry crust. We're driving to the east tomorrow, so we plan to stop along the way for another meal. They were our of the eggplant and raisins, so if that's available, I plan to try that along with a main, and my husband wants to try the chestnuts. You'll be full with a starter and a main dish. The young woman serving us was also very friendly...reading other reviews it sounds like she is the owner's daughter.

*Update: We ended up going again and it was equally as delicious. The eggplant starter...wow. perfectly cooked eggplants topped with raisins, pomegranate seeds, pine nuts, and wonderful herbs. I had the stuffed zucchini flowers, with the option of a stuffed tomato...really, really so good. My husband had the chestnuts with onions in a wine sauce...unbelievable! We also got to meet Stalios this time. Such a kind and compassionate man. You can really tell he puts so much care and sincerity into everything. I've eaten at a lot of vegetarian places on my travels, and this has to be one of my favourites so far.
Updated from previous review on Tuesday October 14, 2014

Really exceptional . As a vegan traveller I found this gem in Chania

So happy to find this mostly vegan restaurant in Old Town Chania. Not every menu item is available every day – and some items are seasonal (chestnuts in winter) – but there are plenty of choices. They make their own bread with “very little gluten.” Menu has sections for appetizers, “on the hob” (stove-top), “in the oven,” salads, spaghetti, sweets. Some items have cheese, but most are available vegan. My friend was thrilled to have gluten-free, meat-free moussaka. I had a plate of sautéed vegetables that included potatoes, zucchini, carrots, garlic, onion, red pepper, okra. I had a Greek organic, unfiltered, unpasteurized beer, the blonde one rather than the dark one. We shared a green salad with dill and olives, and eggplant grilled with raisins. Next day I went with another friend. I had the vegan spinach pie (delicious flavours including fennel) for €2,50 and a tasty chickpea-rice soup made with onions, lemon, greens for €6,50. My friend had a cheesy kalitsouria for 1,70 and boureki for 8,00, which was a large piece of layered pie made with thinly sliced potatoes, cheese, greens, filo pastry.
Reasonable prices.

Updated from previous review on Sunday August 10, 2014

This is a very nice all vegetarian restaurant in Old Port Chania, run by a very nice man that is very vegan accommodating. There are plenty of vegan choices on the menu and the prices are reasonable.

Excellent food and service and very friendly host. This is someone who takes real pride in what he prepares and is religiously vegitarean.
I highly recommend.

Found this place via happycow and wondered if it could live up to the reviews - it did! Delicious food cooked and explained by charming owner, Stelios. Really enjoyed the fava dip/spread and lentil soup, and the greens were just divine! Lovely bread and beautiful salads too. And, as another review has said, blissfully not swimming in oil as a lot of other meals out in Greece tend to be.

Stelios was also very thoughtful and kind with our three year old, and kept wanting to bring him things to try! Great location too, just tucked away a road or two in from the harbour in the old town. Would definitely recommend To Stachi.

Wow! Such amazing food and a lovely father daughter team! Sooo good you MUST try! They make different things each day and although there was not vegan moussaka tonight I have pre ordered some for tomorrow! Yummmmmmmmmm

I happened to be in Chania for work and,thanks to HappyCow.net,went for dinner to TO STACHI. What to say? Everything was perfect. The food was excellent and Stelios, the owner-chef, the very nice person every review talks about.I felt really at home. If you are in Chania, go pay him a visit... it's really worthwhile.

Visited To Stachi after reading the reviews on this and other sites. I've been vegetarian for 40+ years, and this has to be one of the very best vegetarian restaurants I've eaten in.
Stelios' told us what was cooking and explained which dishes were not yet ready. We particularly enjoyed the chestnut and mushroom dish, and are so glad we took his advice about the soya milk pie dessert. Indeed everything we ate was of an exceptionally high standard.
The welcome and service were warm and friendly, and it was a great pleasure to talk with Stelios about his attitude to good slow food. We'll definitely be going to To Stachi several times when we're next in Chania.

This is a typical family owned eatery with the owned and his family take care of the guests wit the restaurant being part if their home. I was even invited to take a look at the choices of the day in the kitchen.

I ate here four times and got never disappointed.

The starters I tried were grilled aubergines with raisins, herbs xorta vrasta, Greek sallad, spinach pie, spinach pirogue, Cretan salad and gigantes / white giant beans.

The main courses I tried were filled tomatoes gemista, moussakas wit soy mince, mpoureki with mint, filed wine leaves and filled rocket flowers.

Everything was fresh, tasty, not swimming in oil and home made.

very good traditional vegetarian and vegan food, really good restaurant, friendly staff and great location. I love it everytime I visit this place!

To Stachi is exactly what we had been looking for: the finest traditional Greek cuisine, served up with love by delightful people in a beautiful spot at very reasonable prices. The food was the best we had in Greece, using fresh, organic produce cooked with great care by the proprietor, Stelios, whose joy and love of food and friends is evident in every bite and in every moment of being in his company.

Stelios is a proud proponent of the slow food movement, giving all his preparations the time required in the oven or on the stove to bring out the best flavors. But this doesn't mean the wait is long, as he's constantly cooking all day, and when you arrive he'll let you know what's ready and what's soon to be ready. He took us into the kitchen to show us all his masterpieces in progress, which often included both vegan and lacto versions (including a soy-based "milk pie" with filo crust that is not to be missed). Both the varieties of dolmadakis (stuffed zucchini flowers and stuffed grape leaves) were by far the best we've had anywhere, thanks to his special preparations. And when i told Stelios that okra is one of the few veggies i don't like, he smiled and said, "Okra, yes, but not my okra." He gave me a sample and he was right: This was the first okra i'd ever had that i actually really enjoyed. Stelios is a very gifted chef with a mastery of flavor and texture, and he's always experimenting and making new discoveries.

But as good as the food is, the best part of our two visits was Stelios himself. He and his whole family radiate love and joy and were such a pleasure to be around. We came back in the off hours when Stelios had time to sit down with us, and we found him to be a humble and generous repository of wisdom about life in general and a great source of information about how to find the quiet, magical places we were looking for in Crete.

What treasures! If you're on Crete (or anywhere near it), please stop by and meet Stelios and his family, and try their wonderful food. Keep in mind that Greek business hours can be a bit flexible, so if they're closed when you first arrive, you might take a walk around the waterfront or the old town and they'll likely be open when you return.

Enjoy! :-)

We had easily the best meal of our whole trip in Greece here. We went for lunch, intending to have a quick meal and then go see some museums, but ended up staying for nearly two and a half hours eating lovely vegan food and chatting with the friendly owner. Stelios is definitely the heart and soul of the place- he made us feel welcome and is definitely a kindred spirit. He talked about food from the heart and showed us a book where guests from all over the world have left notes for him. He was obviously quite proud of his restaurant and food, and with good cause. We had a salad of wild mountain greens (he showed us photos on his camera of he and his daughter picking the greens, and brought us one with the roots and dirt still on so we could see what it looked like!), some truly amazing roasted eggplant with raisins, olive oil, and some sort of avocado dip; fresh homemade bread, a cooked dish of fava beans and more greens, another dish of cooked potatoes, tomatoes, beans, etc., some fava bean dip, fresh orange juice. The weather was beautiful so we sat outdoors and enjoyed the sunshine and a nice view of the water. The museums were all closed by the time we left but I didn't even care! Highly recommended.

Stelios will personalize your food for you,, all healthy clean and full of love... come be nourished at Stachi the welcome and the food will make you feel better... that's what they did for me

We arrived very hungry after coming to Chania, directly after our flight from Iraklion. We found this resturant, at the end of the harbor in a quiet area. We ordered a Cretian green bean and potato dish, and a stuffed grape leaves plate which was large, tasty, and very filling. The owner was incredibly nice, explaining which dishes were vegan, served us homemade warm bread and apple cake, and sat with us. About half the items on the menuy were vegan, and at 8 Euro for main courses, not very expensive. We would definitely go back the next time we are in the area.

Me and my friend had a lovely time at this nice place. The food was very good, and we had a mix of the different special dishes of the day. The owner was a very friendly man, who made us feel welcome. The mood of the place was warm and relaxed.

Husband and wife owned cafe (Stelios and Zeta)located 1 block off the eastern end of the venetian harbor. They have been cooking/baking/eating vegeterian food without eggs for 20+ years. Food offerings are basic greek eats like pizza, spinich pies, goat cheese pies, home cooked bread, fresh juice, soup of the day, etc. Much of the food is on the counter so you can take a look at all the days options before ordering. They are from Chania, they speak good english, and they are very happy to share tourist info and travel tips. Wonderful couple.