KefiI Greek Night

Kefi Night Every Saturday starts at 8 pm

Kefi Night

Kefi night is the true Cretan night out a traditional family party and celebration where all the family and guests join together in a free spirit night. Guests are welcome to join us in an authentic Cretan experience. Then join in with the dancing into the night.

Lamb Kleftico

The most famous meal of Crete. Lamb Kleftico, the name comes from the Greek Kleptomaniac, at Easter time the Cretans steal each others lamb because they believe that the stolen sheep tastes sweeter. The lamb is cooked for 4 hours baked in a clay pot with potatoes, feta cheese, olive oil, and wild herbs from the mountains. We shall be cooking this meal for you on our Kefi Cretan night. We also are cooking a Greek plate that consists of many types of Cretan food so you can select a typical meal or try a meze meal comprising of many small dishes of Greek food.

Kefi

As the wine and music mix together then the famous kefi begins. Kefi is a word, which has been described by various Greeks as meaning the spirit of joy, passion, enthusiasm, high spirits, or frenzy. The custom of smashing plates is considered an expression of kefi, when the soul and body are overwhelmed with an exuberance that must find an outlet.

Cretan Dance

There are many types of Cretan Dances the Sousta is the facing dance of Crete that has a lot of elements from the ancient pirihios. The particular way that is danced is the evidence.

The dance is  danced by men and women, alternately holding palms all together, shaping in the beginning a semicircle, afterwards they separate and stand the one opposite the other making two teams, on of the men and one of the women.

During the dance a story is developed between the man and the woman, the man calls and hugs, trying to invite the woman erotically. The woman with turnings and figures resists to the erotic call. With the movements of the hands and the head, a discussion is developed little by little. Till in the end, befalls the union.

Cretan Music

The origins of music in Crete, and Greece in general, is associated in myth with the birth of the father of gods, Zeus, on Crete. According to Greek mythology Crete is the cradle of Zeus, music and dance. The legend of the birth of Zeus is associated with the Curιtes cult.

The Curιtes were the warriors who danced round the cave where the baby Zeus was being nursed, covering his cries from his father Cronus by the clashing of their shields.

The earliest documented music on Crete comes from Ancient Greece. Cretan music like most traditional Greek began as product of ancient, Byzantine, western and eastern inspirations. The main instrument lyre, is closely related to the bowed Byzantine lyre.

The Lyre holy instrument begin from the "Epic of Digeni Akrita" around the 11th Century a. c. The form of the lyre was not as it is today even if it is not known how it really was.

The only thing sure is that its manufacture is owed to the will of the people to maintain for more time the sound that was produced by a string. The Lyre is distinguished in Pear-shaped and Bottle-shaped. The Lyre is the main instrument played in Cretan music. Come and try a taste of Crete.