TAVERN
APOSPERIDA
The heart of Vafis is unique and keeps all guests in there,
he cares for them, he feeds them!
History
About us
Back in 1993, at the Siva's square, we decided to open a small stone-built tavern where we could offer the Cretan traditional cuisine as a treat to our fellow-villagers and to other friends and visitors of our village. At the beginning we were a bit reluctant and had only eight tables for our customers, but the love of the people prompted us to make our tavern so big as it could fullfil our customers' needs.
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The village's hangout
A THOUSAND WELCOMES AT VAFIS' TAVERN, WHOEVER COMES ONCE MAY COME AGAIN.
Our daily goal is that our customers leave completely satisfied both with food and prices and that our tavern will become their favorite hangout place and their friends' too.
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for memorable evenings
Spend unforgetable evenings with quality food in our cozy and comfortable tavern.
Moreover, in August you will have the possibility (while enjoying your meal) to watch the 10-day-festivities of our village and on the 29th we can all celebrate together at the annual feast of our village when we commemorate Saint Ioannis Rigologos.
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and traditional tastes
Cooking in the old traditional way cretan dishes, we travel you in another era, with tastes that will certainly leave an imprint!
Most of our products like olive oil, raki, meat, vegetables, e.t.c are homegrown.
Location
Sivas
The village Sivas
The village Sivas is 60km away from Heraklion and is located in South Crete.
It is a beautiful, small, traditional, Mediterranean village, which has been characterized as preservable by the Ministry of Culture. It has got beautiful stone-built houses with many carved blazons and nice arched doors. It has also got a great tradition in the cultivation of high quality bio-products and especially olive.
It is the birthplace of the prose writer Themos Kornaros.
It is located 60km south-west of Heraklion and in a small distance out of the road for Matala and has about 400 residents.
The first thing that somebody meets when one gets in the village is a beautiful and characteristic spring exactly next to the church of Hagia Marina (which is celebrated on...
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Sights
Worth to see
and visit in the surrounding area of Sivas
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Faistos
Sights
Faistos, the second Minoan Palace in Crete, which overlooks the fertile low land of Messara, is located in the south-central part of the island about 3km from the village Sivas.
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Agiofarago beach
Sights
Agiofarago is one of the most spectacular beaches of Heraklion Perfecture and it is definately worth a visit: it is located at the exit of the gorge carrying the same name.
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