Marmaritsakis - Patsas Agnos

One of its oldest stores Municipal Market of Chania It is Σ.Δ. Marmaritsakis.

At the West Gate of the Market, the cook offers from 1928 - the time of the grandfather of the current owner - him most popular tripe on the market. Even today the tripe is served from 4 in the morning. But the main feature of the store - compared to others on the market - is that here the skewers are set up early short skewers, The kokoretsia and heads and a grill is prepared for them ribs. Ten o'clock in the morning and everything is ready for food for all tastes.

Along with the grilled and grilled patsades, bellies, gardumbakia (bellies in men), giouvarlakia, boiled meat, soutzoukaki. Of course, there is no lack of lard, snails, moussaka, pastitsio but also seafood, fried cod, shrimp, octopus and cuttlefish.

"The market is declining. The place may be beautiful and it is visited by tourists who now buy souvenirs, but the Greeks are lost. In the old days, the markets of the fish that were transported to Souda and the vegetables that went far operated around the Municipal Market. Many public buildings with employees were also moved further out.

The overnight stays that came at dawn for the tripe are gone, as are the morning customers. You see retirees coming in the first two days of the month as soon as they retire. After that you lose them… Many shops are empty… others have been occupied by tourist items and in addition the market is about to close, because there will be restoration works of the roof which is a strainer and we risk being closed for a long time ".

A huge photo of the market in the interwar period beautifies the facade of the restaurant "Marmaritsakis", while although early, ten o'clock in the morning, the friends of the store began to come to straighten. To try their favorite foods and learn the first news of the market.