The Bottom Line
A pleasant place to stop if you need to refresh yourself while sightseeing in the area.
Pros
- Great location for people watching.
- Good view of both the cathedral and the rebuilt church-temple beside it.
- Excellent frappes.
- Pleasant service.
Cons
- Definitely a tourist spot; frappes are expensive but good.
Description
- Frappes can be ordered "glyko", or sweet; "medio" or slightly sweet, and "kai gala" - with milk.
- In the afternoon, the Minos Cafe is on the shady side of the square.
- Service is pleasant and attentive when you need it; remember, it's considered rude for waiters to bring you the bill; ask.
Guide Review - Minos Cafe
This is a nice place to sit down, cool off, and ingest a frappe, the predecessor of what much the world knows as a "frappuccino". Traditionally, ordering a frappe includes a free glass of water, but many tourist places skip this and hope you'll order a bottle instead. But here it arrived as it should, with the frappe, which I ordered "medio", not too sweet.
On this particular trip to Greece, I wasn't getting over to Crete, and so I welcomed the vaguely Minoan theme and color scheme. The Minos Cafe is on the edge of Mitropolis Square. I enjoyed sitting there and looking at the "Little Metropolis", a cobbled-together church built from the remains of a Roman-era temple dedicated to both the Greco-Egyptian goddess Isis and Eileithyia, the Minoan goddess of childbirth.
Minos Cafe
Mitropolis 6
Telephone: (011 30) 210 324 4445
