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Kelari Cretan Shop: tasty local products
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Kelari is located next to the reception of Limani Apartments near Plakias' harbour.
We mainly offer products with cretan or greek origin. |
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image: | entrance and reception | |
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images: | shop | wine and olive oill | |
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We sell olive oil, wine, Raki and Ouzo, honey and tea as well as many herbs and spices, e.g. the endemic Diktamos tea which solely grows on cretan mountains.
Additionally there are informative books about olive oil and cookery books in several languages to help you prepare dishes the cretan way at home. |
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We have selected wine bottled all over Crete as well as local wine pressed in one of the nearby mountain villages.
In Greece dinner is mostly 'surrounded' by Ouzo while Raki is rather enjoyed on the island of Crete. Both spirits can be found here in many different flavours.
Ouzo is the one with anise, cretan Raki with only about 20% alc. is made of what is left after pressing vines: full of flavour and rich in variety. |
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image: | wine and raki | |
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image: | olive oil | |
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Olive oil is an important ingredient of the greek cuisine, there is nearly no dish without.
In our shop you'll find a fine selection of oil by Crete's best cultivableable areas, main kinds are traditional 'Tsounates' and fruity 'Koroneikes'. The ones made by ourselves are, by the way, on the top shelf the first and second from right.
Oil with bottled herbs is surprising in its flavour, the bottles themselves look beautiful to suit well as a present.
It can even be used as skin care in form of soap or creme. |
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| Crete has a rich abundance of herbs. Thyme for excample loves to grow on dry and stony slopes of numerous mountains, so Thyme honey is very common. It is often served on joghurt.
More herbs like mountain tea, Sage, Rosemary, Origano, Basil and the endemic Diktamos are on stock as well as literature describing their curative effects.
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images: | honey | herbs and spices | |
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image: | accessoires | |
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When visiting us personally you may surely find further things of interest, there is a great variety of sweets and biscuits, nuts and fruits and decorative gadgets.
Different housemade specialties are available according to the season.
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