Guest recipes with Vasilia Kouppanou
Healthy Ground Beef & Zucchini Lasagna
Looking for a comforting meal that doesn’t compromise on flavour or your health goals? This Healthy Ground Beef & Zucchini Lasagna brings you ...
Dreaming of a red Christmas
If you are a wine lover, it is always possible to build your Christmas menu around the wine. This is the best time of year to bring out those special ...
Traditional Cypriot dishes: A guide to the most popular foods in Cyprus
Cyprus cuisine is one of the Mediterranean’s richest culinary traditions, shaped by Greek, Middle Eastern, and Levantine influences. Known for its fresh ingredients, aromatic herbs, and slow-cooked meats, Cypriot ...
Sponge cake: the enduring charm of an airy classic
Sponge cake, light and airy, holds a cherished place on dessert tables worldwide. Its delicate texture and subtle sweetness come from a simple blend of eggs, sugar, flour and sometimes ...
Restaurant review: Taste of China: little bit of everything
Spontaneity can be fun but perhaps not the best idea on a weekday afternoon. Most places were ‘closing soon’ and opening again in the evening but we remembered the sister ...
Restaurant review: Alexander the Great, Paphos
The tradition of tea drinking in Cyprus, with herbal varieties, existed long before a member of the English nobility created afternoon tea in the 19th century. It was designed to ...
Restaurant review: Bar Italia, Nicosia
If I had the time and word-count limits didn’t exist, I’d tell you how this restaurant review veered into film-noir territory. I’d tell you how I combed ...
Restaurant review: House 1923, Pano Lefkara
There’s something about a public holiday that makes you want to wander. We’d gone up to Lefkara village to stay the night, and the afternoon was perfect for ...
Restaurant review: Good food at reasonable prices
Is it cheating if you visit a restaurant knowing you’ll like it before you have even tried a morsel of its food? Perhaps. But revisiting a place you’ve ...
Restaurant review: Top quality comfort food to match your cocktail
By Sarah Coyne
As the redevelopment of Paphos old town goes from strength to strength, the added benefit for foodies is the opening of new restaurants and wine bars. Last ...
Restaurant review: Are the oldies always the goodies?
Operating since 1969, and since 1989 in its current location, Jack’s Pizza House is arguably the oldest pizzeria in Nicosia. Yes, the Jack’s. The mythical, legendary pizzeria that seems to ...
Restaurant review: Playful and satisfying spot for brunch
Bank holiday, good weather and the kind of mood that makes you want to get out and do something. A friend had suggested Smoothie Factory + Kitchen up in the Mercure, ...
Restaurant review: Comfort food to warm the soul
I have walked past this restaurant hundreds of times strolling up and down Limassol’s Molos. Its distinctive sign, RED Restobar, always caught my eye but I never went in. ...
Restaurant review: Casual dining at its very best
As the summer draws to a close, it seems the perfect time to share a restaurant that I have been to more than any other over the last few months. ...
Restaurant review: A Lebanese work in progress
Maybe you’ve dined at places so perfectly run they feel like a well-oiled machine. Maybe you’ve also eaten at spots that seem to have launched after watching a 15...
Restaurant review: Hearty, traditional food in an unpretentious setting
When friends visit from abroad, there are always one or two restaurants they insist on going back to. For our guests this summer, that place was Militzis in Larnaca, a ...
Restaurant review: Burgers well done without distractions
This review has been long in the making. When we visited Hungry Angry in Limassol’s Germasogeia area one crisp Autumnal evening last year, the place was packed. While this ...
Restaurant review: A touch of culinary theatre
One of the latest places in Paphos offering a touch of culinary theatre is Geppetto restaurant, the adult-only dining space at M-Boutique hotel, which opened just over a year ago. ...
Restaurant review: Fast food in disguise
This time around, my faithful dining companion and I decided to try a well-established joint that thrives on a clever illusion: dining in as if it were the upper echelons ...
Restaurant review: Royal Ris, Larnaca
Arranging dinner in summer is always a little game of back and forth. Somewhere air conditioned? Somewhere by the sea? In the end, the decision was obvious. We wanted the ...
Restaurant review: Mēnsa – Pano Panayia, Paphos
August is always the month when the idea of relocating to live above the humidity line has great appeal. Living at sea level with the humidity means summers are long ...
Restaurant review: Wanax Mediterranean Tapas Bar, Limassol
I have no issues with fine dining. I am as partial to unholy amounts of butter being used as the next person, and I certainly appreciate a chef who has ...
Restaurant review: Brothers Bar and Grill, Nicosia
Sometimes, even if that “sometimes” is peak summer, you just get a craving for classic bar and grill – the deliberate duality of an establishment focused on serving alcohol (that’s ...
Restaurant review: Bread and Spread, Larnaca
Brunch plans always seem easier in theory. My partner, my dad and I decided we were overdue a proper one, something with eggs, bacon, coffee; the works. Bread and Spread, ...
Restaurant review: Psarou Fish Tavern, Paphos
It is rare for me to eat at the same restaurant twice in the space of seven days, but last week this is what happened at Psarou Fish Tavern. Since ...
Restaurant review: Karatello Tavern, Limassol
Perhaps it was the music that drew us in. Two local artists performing Cypriot and Greek folk songs for patrons enjoying a meal outside. Whatever the reason, our impromptu visit ...
Restaurant review: Worth moving to the coast for?
While vacationing in Protaras, my faithful dining companion and I both immediately knew we were going to try for a reservation at Il Boccon Divino, a place that caught our ...
Restaurant review: Special Kebab House, Larnaca
Some of the best meals begin without a plan; just a feeling that it’s time to eat. That’s how my partner and I found ourselves on Pavlou Valsamaki ...