Nightlife

Manolis Mountakis & Michalis Kotsolakis — Live at To Alonaki

Cretan lyra and laouto at a grill house in Vlites, Friday from 21:00. Book ahead, it is a small room.

Manolis Mountakis on lyra and Michalis Kotsolakis on laouto play To Alonaki in Vlites on the Friday night, starting at 21:00. This is a psistaria, a grill house that also does cooked dishes, not a concert hall, so the evening runs the way a Cretan glenti actually runs: people eat, the music builds, the tables get pushed back. Mountakis comes from one of the best known lyra families in Crete and plays it straight rather than for tourists. Ring 28210 47474 to book, because the room is not big and word travels in Akrotiri. No ticket price is published: you are paying for what you eat and drink.