Cactus Tavern — Restaurant in Municipality of Chania

Best family restaurant ever! Nice playground makes it so much easier to dine with young children. 2 (quiet) parrots, a small fish dam and a turtle adds to the possibility of spending hours with children at the restaurant 🤩 Extremely friendly and humourus staff (kids love them!). Pavlos, Manolis, Billy and the kind ladies are so professional, experienced, funny and alert - they make the experience of going out with kids so easy 🥰 The children's menu is great and they're really flexible about it also (who haven't had picky children?) 👍 Then the food: Great range, always fresh, perfectly prepared, quickly served - obviously very hard working and knowledgeable staff in the kitchen! Very clean and nice restrooms (they even have a minitoilet for the youngest!). Simply couldn't wish for more! Very hard to dine...

Keeps parrots in small cages. Dont support this! Parrots can live up to 60 years. How many years has these unique creatures been inside these cages?

A parrot is extremely social, using a variety of calls in the wild to talk to other like birds.

In the wild, parrots live in flocks and can fly many miles each day. They spend hours foraging for a variety of natural foods, socializing, communicating, bathing, preening, establishing nesting territories, mating, excavating nests, and raising their young.

Even under the best of circumstances—a home with plenty of physical stimulation, toys and objects to play with and chew, a proper diet, and companionship with humans - life in captivity is still a pale shadow of the life that parrots evolved to live in their...

Food was alright, but multiple members of staff were so rude. The restaurant have parrots, koi fishes, turtles etc, and my 5 year old nephew wanted to look at the animals. We were told to move even we were not in the way and the waiters had plenty of space to move around serving food. Dont keep animals in your restaurant if kids aren’t allowed to look at them…? One person in our group wanted to take a photo of a plant inside the restaurant, when a waiter shouted «NO VIDEO!!». How could he have known that? I guess maybe it’s illegal to keep parrots caged like that and they dont want photos getting out. Sadly, this was our last night on holiday and a bad experience. Would never go back and would not...