Peppino’s (31 St. George’s Road, St. Julian) – this restaurant is at an enviable spot: facing St. Julian’s waterfront. Since this is a multi-level restaurant, its top floor, which offer the best views, are worth making reservations for. Various traditional Italian dishes are served here, along with offering a decent wine list. A number of […]
Medina (7 Holy Cross Street, Mdina) – located in the ancient, one-time capital of Malta (Mdina), this restaurant provides diners with scenery in the form of a stone courtyard hung with oleander and vine leaves. Locally-influenced dishes served here include the Linguini Bir-Rizzi (Linguini tossed in a sea urchin and herb butter cream, Mediterranean clam […]
Legligin (119 St. Lucy Street, Valletta) – located a block away from Manoel Theatre, this is more of a wine bar than a restaurant. Food is served tapas-style, with a Maltese twist – stuffed peppers, Greek dolmades, tender grilled quail breasts, home-made caponata and Maltese sausage – with owner Chris Bonnici on hand to help […]
Il-Mithna (58 Main Street (Triq Il-Kbira), Mellieha) – this restaurant (a 30 minute drive west of Valletta, and a much shorter distance west of St. Paul’s Bay) is also located within a historic building – this time, in a 17th century stone windmill built by the Knights of Malta (“Mithna” being the Maltese word for […]
Guzé (22 Old Bakery Street, Valletta) – housed within one of Valletta’s oldest structures, this restaurant tends to get popular when the evenings are cooler. Dishes served here range from cooked fresh fish, to fillet steak, carpaccio of sea bass, seared free-range chicken breast with fried mushrooms and smoked pancetta, and local rabbit with leek […]
Barracuda (194 Main Street, St. Julian’s) – located on the edge of Balluta Bay (within the popular resort area of St. Julian’s) is this trendy waterside restaurant. Housed in an 18th century seaside villa, fresh fish dishes are its specialty, along with a seafood platter (consisting of freshly-caught fish, shellfish, octopus, calamari, langoustines and prawns), […]
Valletta Waterfront (Pinto Wharf Floriana, Valletta) — With its nineteen historical 250-year-old warehouses, built by Grand Master Pinto at the height of the baroque period in Malta … stretching along the water’s edge and the historical Quay Wall where the Knights of St John and European merchants used to unload their wares … the impregnable […]
Tarxien Temples (Neolithic Temples Street, Tarxien) – located a short distance from Valletta Harbour, this site consists of a complex of four megalithic structures built between 3600 and 2500 BC and re-used between 2400 and 1500 BC. Discovered in 1913 by local farmers, the site was extensively excavated between 1915 and 1919, with a number […]
St. Paul’s Catacombs (Bajjada Triq Sant Agata, Rabat) – located 20 minutes west of Valletta, this is a complex of interconnected, underground Roman cemeteries that were in use up to the 4th century AD. They are located on the outskirts of the old Roman capital Melite (today’s Mdina), since Roman law prohibited burials within the […]
St. John’s Co-Cathedral (Triq San Gwann, Valletta) – this is a gem of Baroque art and architecture. It was built as the conventual church for the Knights of St John. The Grand Masters and several knights donated gifts of high artistic value and made enormous contributions to enrich it with only the best works of art. This […]