Name: ΑΥΛΗ των Μαλίων
Address: Αγίου Ιωάννου 2 και 28 Οκτώβρη 7, Μάλια, Ηράκλειο, 70007, GR
Telephone: 2897031112
Price range: $

- Starters
- Homemade bread
  
  €1.70
  
  Freshly baked in our wood oven drizzled with aromatic olive oil of our produce.
- Homemade chips ‘Tiganites patates’
  
  €4
  
  Hand cut fresh chips dusted with sea salt and oregano from our garden.
- Wood oven potatoes
  
  €4
  
  Potatoes cooked in the wood oven with olive oil, oregano and fresh lemon sauce.
- 'Kopanisti’ from Pilion
  
  €4,50
  
  Lightly spicy spread made of Feta and ‘Galomizithra’ cheeses, sauteed tomato paste and spicy Kavala peppers, served with our freshly baked bread.
- Eggplant spread (Melitzanosalata)
  
  €4,50
  
  Creamy mousse made of smoked eggplants and local white cheeses, sprinkled with roasted almonds and served with our freshly, wood oven baked bread.
- green organic Fava
  
  €6,50
  
  €5,50
  
  Organic mashed peas with pieces of traditional Cretan pork sausage and caramelized onions.
  
  Vegetarian option available
- Gigantes
  
  €5,50
  
  Giant white beans from Prespae area, cooked in the wood oven in fresh tomato, celery, carrots and sweet red pepper sauce.
- Pasalimata (dippers)
  
  €5,70
  
  Green organic fava, ‘Kopanisti’ from Pilion and eggplant spread, served with our homemade wood oven baked bread.
- Beef liver
  
  €5,80
  
  Sauteed and caramelized with balsamic vinegar and rosemary.
- Wood oven pie
  
  €6
  
  Homemade pastry filled with seasonal greens, our beef sausage and Cretan Gruyere cheese.
- Caesarean rolls
  
  €6,50
  
  Cured beef, Cretan Gruyere cheese, Feta cheese and fresh tomato, deep-fried in a crunchy filo pastry.
- Stuffed mushrooms
  
  €6,50
  
  Filled with pork apaki, Cretan Gruyere cheese and fresh basil stuffing, and cooked in our wood oven.
- Melitzana (eggplant) eminse
  
  €7,50
  
  Tender steak slices sauteed with tomatoes and mixed fresh peppers, layered on roasted eggplant with yoghurt sauce.
- from the shepherd
- Our 'Tirozouli' cheese
  
  €5,50
  
  Cretan traditional cheese of our produce made from fresh sheep and goat milk. Served with marinated olives and our home made bread.
  
  * We produce our own cheese daily with fresh local milk.
  Read more here
- cretan aged Gruyere
  
  €6,50
  
  A local 12+ months traditionally aged Cretan cheese. Served with our marinated olives and barley rusk, sprinkled with olive oil & oregano.
- Grilled Talagani
  
  €6,70
  
  Talagani : Grilled goat cheese served with homemade spicy tomato jam.
- Grilled Haloumi
  
  €6,70
  
  Topped with organic rocket from our garden, and homemade grape vinaigrette.
- 'Tirilogia' - a trilogy of Greek cheeses
  
  €11
  
  Grilled Manouri, Haloumi and our Tirozouli served with cherry tomatoes and homemade citrus sweet jam.
- Salads
  
  For our salads we use vegetables from small, local farmers, organic vegetables and vegetables from our own GARDEN!
- ‘Horta tsigariasta’
  
  €5,80
  
  Seasonal par-boiled greens lightly sauteed with olive oil, spring onions and cherry tomatoes, finished with fresh lemon juice and drizzled with Cretan ‘Galomizithra’ cheese.
- Cretan salad
  
  €7.70
  
  Skin on baked potato, boiled farm fresh egg, tomato, cucumber, onion, olives, green peppers, organic Cyprus vetch from our garden, barley rusk and ‘Galomizithra’ cheese tossed in our olive oil dressing.
  
  * When available we use local, organic heirloom tomatoes
- Colorful salad
  
  €7,90
  
  Mixed seasonal leaves with pumpkin seeds, raisins soaked in brandy, pomegranate seeds and ‘Mizithra’ cheese balls coated in mixed nuts. Drizzled with balsamic – honey and pomegranate juice dressing.
- Avli salad
  
  €8
  
  Mixed seasonal greens, cherry tomatoes, cashew nuts and cretan apaki*, in a Gruyere cheese crust drizzled with sun-dried tomato vinaigrette.
  
  * Apaki: Traditional Cretan cured pork marinated with spices and vinegar and smoked with Cretan herbs.
  Read more here

Starters

from the shepherd

Salads