Tá Kochília — Restaurant in Municipality of Sitia

This Restaurant is located in Mochlos, Crete. It is the absolute best of 7 or 8 Restaurants in this tiny village. My wife and I ate there on 7 different occasions. Located just 2 or 3 meters from where the waves crash onto the rocks the view is an outstandingly beautiful visage of rocks, blue sea and soaring cliffs. This is a family busines, selling high quality food since 1902. The staff are attentive without being obtrusive. The ambience is friendly and relaxed. The menu is all things fish, though not exclusively. The starters we ate included, small fried fishes, similar to Whitbait, absolutely delicious, and my favourite, oven roasted Feta with vegetables, creamy and salty, Brucheta, their own version of the Italian classic, with fresh Anchovies. The mains were all different Fishes. Sword Fish Red Snapper, Sea Bass, Sea Bream, Grouper, and Prawns, the size of small Lamb Shanks. We ate all the fish with either Greek salad or roasted vegetables and fried potato. All the fish was served open in one piece with the bones removed. We drank mainly Rose wine, which was priced between €16 and €28 a bottle. The food is the very best we have ever eaten in a resteraunt. The lowest bill for dinner was €40 the highest €65 for 2 people. Should you ever find yourself within a 100 Kilometers of this Restaurant you should definitely eat there and enjoy an experience you will...

Sweet owners, but not so sure about the way we experienced our lunch here. We enjoyed and at the same time I asked if I could see the fresh fish. There was a drawer with dorade and a drawer with dorade in packages from Lidl. We were fine with it and choose one of the fishes. Did not point out a specific one. Had the dorade amongst other dishes and when the invoice came it appeared to be 30 euro. I paid explained it was a lot and was told it was a huge one. After going to Greece multiple times per year, I have lived here for many years and the last thing I want to do is bringing up trouble. However up to our opinion we were eating an average size of fish and therefore I returned to the shop to double check if it was correct and referred to other times we went to eat fish and would pay between 12 and 15 euro. The owner and his wife explained if was a real big fish. I left it and decided to just point it out to others to be checking out what you order and what will be the price. We had a dish of kalamari and had rings from the freezer. We decided to keep the memory of Mochlos as a sweet one but to share...

We were 6 adults and 4 kids and we arrived at 19:00. The personnel told us that all tables were reserved, however a 9-person table was not reserved but the responsible person told us that he forgot to reserve that one and that we cannot take that table. Also, another 10-person table was empty because some other customers just left. However, the responsible person told us that these people were still there and they were not there for the moment. IMHO, a ridiculous excuse!! We asked what time is the reservation of the tables because we wanted to stay only for a couple of hours. They told us that the reservations were at that time ~19:20.

Then, we took a table in the restaurant that is next to this place. We stayed until 21:00 in the next door restaurant and I was constantly checking if the tables of kochilia will be taken. However, many tables were still empty. We were really disappointed because we came from heraklion to have dinner in this place, however their behavior and service was really...